Chuck E Cheese at 9:30 am??

[MrsAxilla]

Ben has a birthday party today at 9:30 at Chuck E Cheese. In the morning! Who does that? Do you think there will be coffee? Or just pizza? Pizza for breakfast? I'm so confused! Wish me luck.

[Deleted]

is the birthday boy Jewish? Who has a birthday party on Sunday morning?

[ttt]

What? That is just bizarre. GL!

[statlerwaldorf]

Ugh. I don't think I could handle Chuck E Cheese that early.

[decemberwedding07]

Maybe Chuck E Cheese has specials on their party packages on Sunday mornings? Kind of like how wedding venues charged less for Friday and Sunday all day, and for very early on Saturday? I can see doing that if I had a kid who really wanted to have a party there, but it was too expensive during their more popular hours.

[bronxgirl]

Jun 24, 2012 9:20:43 GMT -5 @septimus said:

is the birthday boy Jewish? Who has a birthday party on Sunday morning?

If he was religious enough not to have a party on Shabbos than he would definitely not be having a party in a completely unkosher restaurant like Chuck E. Cheese.

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Jun 24, 2012 9:39:34 GMT -5 bronxgirl said:

Jun 24, 2012 9:20:43 GMT -5 @septimus said:

is the birthday boy Jewish? Who has a birthday party on Sunday morning?

If he was religious enough not to have a party on Shabbos than he would definitely not be having a party in a completely unkosher restaurant like Chuck E. Cheese.

i was grasping..... here in the south nothing is scheduled before 1pm on Sunday or after 5pm on Wednesday

[ringstrue]

We are hurting for activity by 9:30am anyways so this would be nice for us. But yeah I'm not sure what they are doing for food??

[EloiseWeenie]

Very strange, but I bet you will have the place to yourselves.

Side note: their advertising has been effective on my 3 year old. Every time we pass by, my son yells "I WANT TO GO TO CHUCK E CHEEZITS!!" to which I tell him we will not go because it's gross. He then says "CHUCK E CHEEZITS IS GROSS AND ICKY." I wonder how long this will work?

[Deleted]

Jun 24, 2012 9:45:45 GMT -5 EloiseWeenie said:

Very strange, but I bet you will have the place to yourselves.

Side note: their advertising has been effective on my 3 year old. Every time we pass by, my son yells "I WANT TO GO TO CHUCK E CHEEZITS!!" to which I tell him we will not go because it's gross. He then says "CHUCK E CHEEZITS IS GROSS AND ICKY." I wonder how long this will work?

My friend told her son it is was like the country club. you had to be members to go and they weren't members.

[summer]

We had DD's 4th birthday party at 10am because she still takes naps in the afternoon and I didn't want her to be a tired terror on her bday. Plus I figure most kids are up at 7am anyways and the mornings kids are not over-tired yet. We ate lunch at 11:30, cake after, played some more. It was done by 3 and we had the afternoon to ourselves. Pretty sweet I must say.

[cookiemdough]

I am guessing there is an hour and a half of play time before food is served? So then it would be closer to 11 before pizza. I do think it is a little strange that it is so early.

[KateAggie]

Jun 24, 2012 9:45:45 GMT -5 EloiseWeenie said:

Very strange, but I bet you will have the place to yourselves.

Side note: their advertising has been effective on my 3 year old. Every time we pass by, my son yells "I WANT TO GO TO CHUCK E CHEEZITS!!" to which I tell him we will not go because it's gross. He then says "CHUCK E CHEEZITS IS GROSS AND ICKY." I wonder how long this will work?

My friend's son calls it Chuck E Jesus, but I don't think Jesus would do that to us.

[statlerwaldorf]

Jun 24, 2012 9:50:37 GMT -5 summer said:

We had DD's 4th birthday party at 10am because she still takes naps in the afternoon and I didn't want her to be a tired terror on her bday. Plus I figure most kids are up at 7am anyways and the mornings kids are not over-tired yet. We ate lunch at 11:30, cake after, played some more. It was done by 3 and we had the afternoon to ourselves. Pretty sweet I must say.

For some reason 10am seems like a perfectly reasonable time, but 9:30 seems weird. Like that half hour is going to make some sort of huge difference.

[earlgreyhot]

My son's 2nd bday party is from 10-12 am on a Sunday, but it's outdoors at my apartment bldg. No one in our circle goes to church that I know of.

DH wanted to take DS CC after an ikea run and it was gross and miserable. Thankfully DS has no memory of it as I am totally stealing the country club excuse. Thank you for that!

[GailGoldie]

I went to a 9:30 am Sunday chuck e cheese party once- and LOVED it! We were the only people in the whole place- it was the FIRST time i actually enjoyed myself in that hell forsaken place

I think it's awesome... and yes, I was like WTF when i saw the time- but now that i know- i'd ONLY Plan one at that place, at that time... thankfully my boys have yet to ask to ahve a party there.

[GailGoldie]

oh, and the friend who threw that party is Christian and a church goer- but obviously skipped that day (as did our family).... and pizza/cake was served at the end of the party- which was close to 11am.

[druidp]

I may or may not be known to purposefully avoid byways which take us past a Chuck E. Cheese for the express purpose neither child asks to have a party there.

I hear they serve alcohol at some CEC venues? Although I wonder if it'd be flowing that early in the morning.

[mrswizard]

Hi! I've been to CEC at 10am with a parent's group - and it was great! It was very clean, not crowded and they test all of the machines at that hour and give out free tickets... the kids had a great time. Our doesn't serve alcohol though.

[ESF]

I didn't even realize that Chuck E Cheese was still around. But, on Friday, I was at a deposition, and the poor deponent apparently had a commitment to take his child to Chuck E Cheese that night.

There are few things in life that are shittier than being deposed, but I have to say, going to Chuck E Cheese after being deposed might just be the shittiest.

[Deleted]

I would actually think that 9:30 would be a great time for a party there due to the lack of crowds yet. I would much rather be there at that time than at noon-2pm.

[Deleted]

That is seriously the best time to go. That's when we went the one time I finally gave in to their unrelenting desire to see what the fuss was all about.

We went once. They enjoyed it but agreed that it was no more fun than any other place and we never went back.

[secretlyevil]

So did they serve breakfast pizza?

[ttt]

Anybody else remember when it was Showbiz Pizza??

[msmerymac]

Jun 25, 2012 15:59:32 GMT -5 ttt said:

Anybody else remember when it was Showbiz Pizza??

Yes! I think? I might be thinking about a place called Major Magic's, which was similar, and had a stage show.

When I was 2 my parents took me to Chuck E. Cheese. The 6 foot mouse came over to our table and I cried and cried. And therefore, by scaring me shitless, they probably ensured we wouldn't have to go back for years.

[pixy0stix]

Jun 25, 2012 15:59:32 GMT -5 ttt said:

Anybody else remember when it was Showbiz Pizza??

When the main character was a gorilla and not a mouse, yes! Yes I do.

DH keeps wanting to take ZB. I keep stalling.

[AJL]

Jun 24, 2012 9:39:34 GMT -5 bronxgirl said:

Jun 24, 2012 9:20:43 GMT -5 @septimus said:

is the birthday boy Jewish? Who has a birthday party on Sunday morning?

If he was religious enough not to have a party on Shabbos than he would definitely not be having a party in a completely unkosher restaurant like Chuck E. Cheese.

Not true. My Conservative Jewish SIL and BIL have their kids' birthday parties on Sundays because of Shabbat. They also have it in the late afternoon but I think that's because they're schmucks. We live 3 hours away and it sucks for DH to have to take off from work the next day.

Anyway, 9 AM at Chuck E Cheese is nuts. A birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese should come with Xanax though. I hate that place.

[MrsAxilla]

Jun 25, 2012 15:56:10 GMT -5 secretlyevil said:

So did they serve breakfast pizza?

Yes! Pizza at 10:30; NO COFFEE!! The mom even made a joke about no Starbucks and I wanted to tell her that Starbucks sells gallons of coffee to go. That's totally what I would do. Plus bagels.

So, except for the pizza and coffee, 9:30 was a good time to go. No one else was even there until close to 11, then it became a madhouse. You get extra tokens if you have the party at 9:30, too.