alt Hacker NewsEasily the worst pizza I’ve ever eaten anywhere, the poorest quality control ever. But the kids had fun.
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I was probably around ~5(ish) years old when I went to Chuck E. Cheese for a birthday party; distinctly remember disliking the pizza (and cheese, by extension) so much that I thought I *hated* pizza altogether until I was ~16(ish) and started working at a local pizza place in town called Valeos where we'd get a free 16in to take home after every shift. I still use their sauce recipe to this day it's literally so good!
At the time, I think a friends mom [jokingly] said the pizza was 'cardboard' and I began crying as I genuinely believed it was actual cardboard
Nate Bargatze has a pretty good bit on Chuck E Cheese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHrcGFKgWGY
The funny thing is I remember the pizza being pretty lousy when I was a kid, but when one of my kids had a friend's birthday party there I tried a slice and it was surprisingly decent. The crust was done right, and while the toppings were probably cheap they did at least add some Italian seasoning to it to punch it up.
It was better than a couple of the local pizza chains that have catered some of the other birthday parties we have attended.
I was so excited to be invited to my first party there. The pizza was a huge letdown, and Pizza Hut was the best thing I experienced for many, many years, followed by Godfather’s. Chuck E. Cheese wasn’t even on the list. But I sure had fun on the video games and ski ball.
Have you been in the last few years? We thought the same, but they've gotten a lot better since COVID. Still overpriced, but at least edible (at least if you get the stuffed crust).
Not sure why there would be any surprise. They aren’t in the pizza business. They are in the waste children’s time business.
Oddly enough, Chuck E Cheese has been trying to “rebrand” itself since COVID. During the pandemic they actually operated as a shadow kitchen pizza chain and possibly as a result, the quality of their pizza (at least at our local restaurant) has substantially improved, to the point that I would rank it above a couple other nationwide chains. The atmosphere is very different from the dark, grody, funky 1980s rat pizza restaurant, and is now a loud party atmosphere with TV screens constantly blasting kiddie music videos. They’ve shifted their age demographic from “family” to “kids”, and their locations have become much cleaner.