During the height of Chuck E. Cheese, Kansas City-born restaurant chain ShowBiz Pizza Place also entertained thousands of children, leading to a fierce fight for dominance in “pizza, Pacman ...

Competitor ShowBiz Pizza Place gave Chuck E. Cheese a run for its money in the ’80s with its own distinctive animatronic stage show, The Rock-afire Explosion. But after Chuck E. Cheese filed for ...

In 1984, ShowBiz purchased Pizza Time’s assets, but the two concepts ran separately until 1990, when locations began to be rebranded to Chuck E. Cheese. They kept Pizza Time’s beloved ...

its legacy at Chuck E. Cheese. ShowBiz was founded by hotel franchisee Robert Brock three years after the first Chuck E Cheese’s Pizza Time Theatre opened in California. Brock had originally ...

Cheese locations, the Rock-afire Explosion lives on. For those with childhood’s void of the sensory overload that was Showbiz ...

Children and adults across the country might recall attending birthday parties at either Chuck E. Cheese or ShowBiz Pizza Place, depending on where they grew up and how old they are. Now ...

Brock and Fechter opened ShowBiz Pizza Place, a near re-creation of Chuck E. Cheese, but with Fechter’s animatronics. A legal battle ensued, and the two companies settled out of court, ...

The merged company continued to operate separately branded restaurants, with Pizza Time employing the Chuck E. Cheese band, while ShowBiz featured the Rock-afire Explosion. Within a few years ...

Chuck E. Cheese, the character and the pizza chain ... A merger with competitor Showbiz Pizza would bring further alterations, but Chuck E. has survived everything from a species swap to bankruptcies.

The owner of Chuck E. Cheese has acquired Phoenix-based Peter Piper Pizza for an undisclosed price. CEC Entertainment Inc., which owns Chuck E. Cheese, said Thursday that it intends to continue ...