Chuck E. Cheese — Restaurant in Chattanooga

This was my 1st time back to Chuck E Cheese in many years. In one way, I was impressed. In another, i was very disappointed. Let me say, what i was impressed with. The gaming system, is much better. The games are much better as well. They now have a card they allow you to purchase while also, purchasing your order. It allows you to pay by the hour rather than buying tokens at the counter they give you unlimited play time, beginning with an hour and going up. Honestly, the price isnt bad at all. $20 for 1 hour and $24 for 2 hours then up. You can even pause the card time of you want to eat, go to the restroom, or just take a break from playing. I like the layout of the seating much better as well and that they still check each person that goes out the door. The gentleman at the ordering counter explained everything in detail about the card and how it worked. The bathrooms were clean, as was the entire restaurant.

What I was shocked to not see... was the Chuck E Cheese band, was no longer there. When my kids were little, that was a huge hit. Now, there are tv screens that play music videos of Chuck E. And there is a Chuck E character still standing in the far end corner. The person they use for Chuck E Cheese, was continually late coming out when it was time for their performance with the kids. And, wasnt really dressed as he use to be. Jersey and Jean's, with a pair of huge sneakers and of course Chuck Es head. I guess for someone that went from it being Showbiz to Chuck E Cheese and remembering it that way then seeing it this way. It just didnt seem normal. But yet, that was still ok I suppose. The pizza, was ok. But the parmesan bread sticks...were horrible. Definitely not worth $10 for the 2 orders. And now for an ordinary salad bar, its $8.99. I was shocked. Our bill, in total was just under $88.00 Talk about shocking. My grandson had an amazing time though, thankfully he is only 7 and doesnt understand the cost of things. And while there isnt a price on his happiness. I still wished he could have at least got something more when cashing in his 1087 tickets. Either way, he had a great time and there were great memories made. My only suggestions would be to make the bread sticks as they use to be, lower the salad bar cost and add some cool prizes for the tickets for those that dont have 3000...

This place is so insanely expensive, we had been invited to a birthday party for a 3 year old girl who was friend's with my 4 year old daughter. We received a $30 card from the parent's of the birthday girl, spent $30 on a card of our own to be sure we could play the entire time and those two cards barely lasted 15 minutes. So, I went and bought a $50 card and made sure I did the time INSTEAD of the points, bc if you're buying the point based cards, like we had at first, you stand in front of maybe a total of 3 games/rides and that card is done and empty in an instant with 2-5 year old girl's. So, I spend $50 on a card that was for 45 minutes of play time. Which is now a total of $80, not including the extra one our host party parent's had handed us, and were there for literally 2 hours and Chucky the mouse never came out One time!! This used to be a place called Showbiz Pizza when I was little, and it was endless amounts of fun, with a robotic band performance every 15 minutes, Bob the Bear mascot was always out and visiting the kid's, and never did I see my parent's spend that endless amount of money for nothing. I am so incredibly disappointed and unhappy with the entire set up of this place. Oh, one more thing... The last time I was there and Chucky did make an appearance, he would 'make it rain' on the kid's with prize tickets, as all the kids would have to jump on the floor below him to get as many as they could. I pulled my brother's two kid's right up and out of that floor immediately as I realized that this mascot, supposed to be 'kid-friendly' character had my niece and nephew in the floor, like they were Strippers who took their clothes off for money!! This is such a total...

A very pricey place to have a birthday party and also dine. Attended both grandbabies' joint birthday parties here today. Spent over $51.00 for one medium 2-topping pizza which I didn't eat (pizza alone was over $18.00, why I don't know), 3 salad bars (it's decent bar, but only a few extra options as compared to say, CiCi's and is not included in a meal but separate at over $8.00 each and not included in flat rate meal price) and two drinks (one water cup). Daughter had already paid a lot for the birthday party, which she included 2 pizzas. The birthday celebration was quite different than last years, in which there seemed to be a lot more fanfare by the hosts (just singing happy birthday and the air tickets). We beg our eldest daughter every year, please don't have the boys' parties here, but inevitably she does due to time constraints and weather. The reason we request she doesn't, the cost is disproportionate to their income and everyone in our family as well. The second reason is our other adult daughter has photo-sensitive seizures triggered by flashing lights, wheelchair bound and finds it difficult to get around in many places. But she is the baker in the family and expected to attend. Considering my wife had already bought the ingredients for a home baked birthday cake, one gift and the drive, it's easy for three adults to spend over 100.00 at the least on a birthday on top of what the actual parents pay to have the party there. One point for the game area as it appears updated and the games WERE fun...