Relation to Real Chuck E Cheese History

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_E._Cheese%27s

Please check out the wikipedia page, or read what I have put together from the page below. At the bottom of the page, there will be a description of how this may fit in with the Five Nights at Freddy's storyline. I hope you find some useful information here, and enjoy!

(WARNING: Book spoilers)

Chuck E. Cheese's, originally referred to as Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza Time Theater, was founded by Atari founder Nolan Bushnell who was seeking to expand the purview of video game arcades beyond more adult locations like pool halls to a kid and family friendly venue. Bushnell’s experience in the amusement park industry, as well as his fondness of The Walt Disney Company, was influential in the conceptualization of the Pizza Time Theatre concept. The first location opened in San Jose, California in 1977, and was labeled as the first family restaurant to integrate food, cheap animated entertainment, and an indoor arcade. As the restaurant became increasingly successful, he began to franchise, resulting in a co-development agreement between Bushnell and Robert Brock in 1979. The agreement handed Brock exclusive franchising rights for opening Pizza Time Theatres in sixteen states across the southern and midwestern United States, while also forming a company subdivision, "Pizza Show Biz", to develop the Pizza Time Theatres. In November 1978, Brock met Aaron Fechter of Creative Engineering, Inc. Concerned that Fechter’s animatronics would be too strong a competition for Bushnell’s work, Brock requested that Bushnell release him from the co-development agreement, citing misrepresentation. In December 1979, Brock and Fechter formed “Showbiz Pizza Place Inc”, severing Brock's business relationship with Bushnell. ShowBiz Pizza Place was conceptually identical to Pizza Time Theatre in all aspects except for animation, which would be provided by Creative Engineering. The first location was opened in 1980. Upon the opening of ShowBiz Pizza Place, Bushnell sued Brock and Topeka Inn Management over breach of contract. Brock immediately issued a counter-suit against Bushnell, citing misrepresentation. The court case began in March 1980, eventually settling out of court with Showbiz agreeing to pay Pizza Time Theatre a portion of its profits over the following decade. Both restaurants experienced increased success as the video game industry became more robust, and, to maintain competition, both franchises continually modified and diversified their animatronic shows.In 1981, Pizza Time Theatre went public; however, the evolving video game industry and the video game crash of 1983 resulted in significant losses for Pizza Time Theatre, which lost $15 million in 1983, and by 1984, Bushnell’s debts were insurmountable, resulting in the filing of Chapter 11 bankruptcy for Pizza Time Theatre Inc. Showbiz then bought the foundering company, recreating itself as Showbiz Pizza Time Inc. After the merger, both restaurants continued operating under the different titles. During this period, Creative Engineering began to sever ties with ShowBiz Pizza Time (they officially left the company in September 1990), eventually resulting in the unification of its mixed characters. By 1992, all restaurants assumed the name of Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza.However, the name was changed to Chuck E. Cheese's in 1995 after a 1994 redesigning of the concept. In 1998, the company renamed itself CEC Entertainment, Inc. Chuck E. Cheese's celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2007.There are 577 open locations throughout North America, South America, and the Middle East. In the early 80s, the restaurant opened in Australia under the name "Charlie Cheese's Pizza Playhouse". More recently, less attention has been placed on animatronics. However, there are now several different styles of animatronic shows in use within the company, depending on when the location opened, whether it was renovated, and other factors.

The interesting stuff begins around 1979, when the co-development agreement contract was formed between Bushnell and Brock. The sections about the competition that Brock posed with his new resturaunt and his superior animatronics, is similar to the backstory of the FNaF Novel. Now I know that the book was not connected to the game franchise, but that doesn't mean that story objects can be similar. In the book, the two co-owners of Fredbear's branch off from eachother. One of the owners keeps the small branch with the two animatronics, while the other goes off to create a larger establishment, with superior animatronics, and a larger building and budget. Since the superiority of Brocks resturaunt in Chuck E Cheese's timeline caused confilct between Brock and Bushnell, it basicly means that the same thing definitly could have occured in Five Nights at Freddy's. . . But much darker. In the novel, instead of lawsuits, it's murder, to try to get the others's resturaunt shut down. And that could explain why the murders even occured in the first place. And then onto the subject of the sister resturaunt. Today's updates on the FNaF game franchise are what inspired me to write this article in the first place. We are no longer going to have only the 'Pizza Time Theatre/Freddy Fazbear's Pizza', we are going to have Showbiz Pizza place. Our story will hopefully be complete after this next game comes out. I'm sure you guys will be able to pick out alot from the information above that is similar to FNaF, like the 1983 video game crash, and the 30 year aniversery etc. Go ahead and discuss in the comments, or more articles.

Thank you for reading!

-Hunter