Alleged Former Chuck E. Cheese’s Employee Dishes on Horrors of Kiddie Playland
- Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:19pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Chuck E. Cheese’s may be the place “where a kid can be a kid,” but the tales one alleged former employee told about the kiddie haven could be enough for parents to keep their children away from the famed rat’s playland for a good long time.
Business Insider highlighted some of the recent responses given during an online question-and-answer session on Reddit.com. As BI noted, the site relies on anonymous sources that can’t be verified. Still, read on to see if there’s anything you (hopefully don’t) recognize:
On kids defecating in the tubes:
On my last day of work a little kid came up to tell me “Mr. Mr. Somebody pooped in the tubes and smeared it everywhere.“ I said ”Thanks for letting me know.” and kept on sweeping. Then a suburban mom came up to tell me as well. I realized at this point that as the lowest on the totem pole I couldn’t tell anyone else to clean it, and if I told a manager he’d just have me do it. So I ran to the costume room and got in the Chuck E. suit. I stayed “in character” for 3 hours.
On how they’d clean up vomit:
I learned you pour cotton candy crystals on it. It soaks up the puke so you can just sweep it up and it makes it smell like strawberry puke.
A tip for parents:
Don’t ever let your kids (if you have them) play in ball pits. They’re rarely cleaned. When we did clean them, we put them in my boss’ pickup truck in netted bags. Then we just went through a carwash.
Read the full post at Business Insider.
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Comments (94)
PapaPatriarch
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 9:44pmAbout “Chunk E. Squeezes”……
Report Post »This crap has to stop, It’s really soiled thier reputation. The employee just sounds nutty to me.
This could wipe out thier bussiness, the whole thing stinks. It flushed my appetite.
signed, disGRUNTled.
scruffycat
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 10:23pmI can’t believe the Blaze is reposting stuff from Reddit. That tells me a lot about ages and mentality of the editors here. Reddit being the teenie bopper hangout similar to the cesspool of the internet also known as 4chan.org, only 4chan does stuff first then Reddit picks it up and tries to say they did it. Recently Reddit were involved in hosting a lot of Child Pornography, or CP for short, and had to make some kind of changes to reduce it. This Chucky Cheese story seems drummed up for some reason. Sometimes kids crap and fingerpaint the tubes. Ok. Sometimes kids vomit and they clean it up. Ok. Washing the balls at a car wash sounds like about the only way to wash that many balls. So where is the story here?
Report Post »jzs
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 10:56pmWell, thanks Blaze for this scoop. A guy who was quitting, and on his last day, refused to clean up some poop. And he’s blaming Chuckie Cheese for his refusal to clean up. Whatever.
That said, in earlier years I took kids to Chuckie Cheese. Kids love it but after a visit or two I chose other places for entertainment for groups of kids. The fact that those ball pits are vectors for anything transmitted by secretions of the mouth or nose (intestinal or cold viruses among other pathogens) is well known and is covered often in local news.
I’m sure a lot of you liberal weirdos would have them impose big government regulations, like washing the ball pits with bleach every hour. You’d have these places shut down, or boycott them like a bunch of union sissies. But if you’re not, well, take your young kids – they will have fun – for as long as you can stomach it. Then go somewhere else, like the park or a pool.
It’s the nature of the beast. Kids love it, but after the first time it’s like beginning to see the seedy side of a traveling circus.
Report Post »PapaPatriarch
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 11:09pm@scruffycat
Report Post »Stop, smile, and breathe. It should lower your stress levels.
PapaPatriarch
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 11:11pmB.T.W. i hope you can tell my post was an OBVIOUS joke? Pooooooooooooooooooooop!
Report Post »woodrowsux
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 11:41pmthe toilets were all stuffed at the Chuckster in Kansas City so on our way out a DAD and his kid were crapping in the Ball Pool pretending to be playing. True story – happened 3 years ago at a birthday party . The kids started throwing the plastic balls and the poop ‘balls’ someone complained, the manager came out and the offending dad and son copped to it, but claimed it was Chuck E’s fault since the toilets were all stuffed. Crazy!! Never went back.
Report Post »Uranium Wedge
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 12:26am“For hard puking stories, go to the Blaze.”
Report Post »Wow, really the Blaze?????????
1947
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 11:33amSounds like the government is in charge
Report Post »thebluelightning
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 12:26pm@ SCRUFFYCAT nice Sturmabteilung insignia, I hope I’m not the only one that recognizes that crap. The funny thing is that even Hitler didn’t keep that stooge Ernst Röhm around very long because he was a flagrant homosexual, he got it in the night of the long knives.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 4:25pmMy God, I think I’ve seen the first sign of the apocalypse.
I agree with jzs.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 9:29pmMy home town has TWO stop lights but NO Chuck E Cheeses. Good deal, huh?
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 9:55amYes it does.There is something in the grab bag for you however.Its from the John Boy and Billy show called chucky cheese hell.Artist Tim Wilson.
Report Post »objectivetruth
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 9:58amhttp://www.thebigshow.com/aa_webcast_stations/index.php
Report Post »Listen in if you can get a station and are in the airwave area.You will no doubt appreciate the song even more.
ronin_6
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 9:00pmGood for the immune system. Makes em strong. They used to call polio the rich man’s disease cause the kids in the ghettos rarely got it. Why? Their immune systems were bullet proof. Rich folks with lots of servants to keep things clean and hygenic were not so lucky.
Report Post »inked
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 8:46pmPooooooooooop
Report Post »Jase
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 8:41pmPooping in tubes? hehe, that‘s child’s play….OWS should show the kids all the wonderful things you can do with fecal matter.
Report Post »PapaPatriarch
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 9:30pmI feel like B.O. did this to our Constitution.
Report Post »ThoreauHD
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 8:32pmMore kids should swim in sewage and crawl around in puke. You need to toughen up their immune systems to they don’t become hyper allergic cupcakes and darwinian roadkill.
The only problem is convincing them that swimming in feces and puke is cool.
Report Post »Magovac500
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 7:21pmEverything is relative. Do you grab a grocery cart without using the disinfectant wipes stores now supply. This is one of the dirtiest things you can handlle. I would guess that a well run Chuckee-cheese would be no better or worse than a well run daycare center.
Report Post »Girard1974
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 2:09amYeah, I’ve noticed those convenient wipes. Yet I’ve been shopping at different stores for nearly 50 years now and until just this year never even thought about washing my hands before grabbing a cart.
Just how silly have we become? Maybe we should simply don disposable gloves prior to leaving the house while putting a mask over our mouths and noses for good measure. We’ve morphed into a nation of pansies. Of course I’m still laughing about the Charles E. Fromage problems – a dad and son pooping in the ball pool – unbelievable!! What I mean is I don’t believe it happened.
Report Post »Gman42
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 6:48amThey supply what now? I‘m surprised they don’t make you bring your own recycle-able shopping cart.
Report Post »B_rad
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 2:34pmThe wipes are for the cart, not your hands. The filthiest things are stuff you touch every day. Money is crawling with germs. Your computer mouse is more infested than the one crawling around in your walls. Phones are laden with germs reaching out to touch someone. The worst offender? Probably ladies purses. Most people don’t pay much attention to where they set down their purse. Many set them on the floor wherever they are, even in the public restrooms. Then they come home and put it on the counter. Yummy.
Okay, now realize that germs are everywhere and while being reasonable about washing your hands and such is smart, we cannot (and should not) sanitize the world. Remember War of the Worlds? The human body is designed to deal with these germs. They make us stronger.
Report Post »korbin
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 7:18pmThe chuck cheese poop shoot, good place for Obama to hold a press conference and stand at the opening. Hahahhaha. i crack myself up.
Report Post »Magyar
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 7:49pm@Korbin
ME TOO!
Report Post »Bryan B
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 7:12pmIf Chuck E. Cheese’s really wants to fix this problem, they can.
But thats just it, most companys and their officers don’t really care about, customer service or employees.
In any business your employees are everything, from the store manager to the employees that sweep the floors. If you don’t train them properly and give them the right tools to do their job…..You will get S#&$ left in the tube everytime.
The real big problem with most companys today, the President/ CEO and Corporate Officers have no idea how things work at a store level. They didn’t have to start at the bottom and work their way up. In the case of Chuck E. Cheese’s, I’ll bet a Buffalo Nickel, that none of their Corporate Officers know anything about customer service, operating a cash register, cleaning, or even how to make a pizza. And that how something like this happen to them, a complete break-down in management, from the Top to the Bottom.
Like I said before Chuck E. Cheese’s could fix this if they want to, but I don’t think want too……
Report Post »Abraham Young
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 8:32pmDO you know what you do when you generalize?
Not a heck of a lot of thinking.
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 9:57pmChuck e. cheese has pizza? cool!
Report Post »taxpro4u03
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 10:17pmThe brass ‘knows.’ — Bottom line — ‘profits.’ — This entails grunts paid just enuff not to quit, and the grunts by and large will work just hard enuff to not be fired. — Those who DO care about the very reason they are employed to begin with (without the customer coming thru the door and dropping $’S — THERE WOULD be NO “BUSINESSES”) unfortunately in today’s cut-throat environment are weeded OUT. (marginalized for saying/doing something in the INTEREST of the customer). Businesses by and large want robots. NOT critical thinkers. Particularly in the ‘service’ industry, which is all America has to offer for the most part. Ask any of the unemployed/underemployed ‘colidge’ grads coming out this year……… HUGE debt, no ‘gainful’ employment.
Report Post »Bryan B
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 11:30pm@Abraham Young
Sorry that I hurt your feelings….
Report Post »rosegrower
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 1:27pmThere are several flaws in your argument, the first of which is that this is a problem of TOP management. It seems to be a problem with the manager of one particular store who is too lazy to supervise equally lazy employees. This isn’t a “corporate” issue, it‘s an issue with employees who believe the paycheck they are supposed to earn is an entitlement and they shouldn’t be expected to PERFORM any job duties (like cleaning) for it, and a manager who may have been deemed the best of the lazy employees and thus was promoted to a position of responsibility for which he or she was ill equipped.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 6:58pmAnd this is why I don’t go to Chuck E Cheese anymore. I don’t have kids, so no reason to go. However, I was killing time before a movie and decided to visit. It was horrible. I will never go back. Too noisy and the place was filthy.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on May 14, 2012 at 8:24amYou visited a chucky’s without kids?! Wow…Just wow…Not only is that sad but it is a little creepy too.
Surprised they let you in…
Report Post »SpaceRaider
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 6:49pmReminds me of the “Germs” episode of Invader Zim
Report Post »shybastid
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 6:31pmIt‘s not just Chuck’s filth factory or public facilities.
There are children’s playgrounds with slides and tunnels in many major fast food chains.
They have a sign in the restrooms to show an employee has inspected the facility and cleaned it with initials signed and dated.
You don’t see that at the playland section do you?
I have NEVER seen an employee going through those playlands with a towel and disinfectant.
At least during normal business hours. But I don’t eat fast food either.
I HAD to go years ago to get the kids to eat.(YUCK!) Thank god they decided they didn’t like the food enough to go play on the playgrounds all by themselves.
Report Post »CommonSensetoMe
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 6:49pmI spent a year working for Chuck E Cheese. This one place does not reflect the habits of all Chuck E Cheese’s. Furthermore shame on this employee for not performing his duties. I spent much of my time as the new est employee so I spent a great deal of time cleaning up vomit, pee and poop in the tube or bathrooms’s. I can assure you if it does happen the tubes are thoroughly cleaned. Each night my solo job was to go up int the tube and clean them.
Report Post »Nuts-n-Bolts
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 7:16pmI’ve never worked at a fast-food joint, but I’m pretty sure Commonsensetome has it right. These franchisees don’t want to get known for spreading diseases, so they work at keeping the places as clean as they reasonably can, kiddy playlands included. No doubt there are some exceptions, but those are exceptions.
Report Post »sta
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 7:30pmThis will lead to a shutdown of all these Playlands. Mark my words. The government believes some nimrod looking for attention and they will close them down for “germs” that are most probably made up.
Remember the Urban Legend about ball pits and needles?
Report Post »mamabearCali
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 7:51pmMy local chick-fil-a cleans theirs once a day. I know because I have seen them do it many times. I don’t know if it is just the local one that is conscientious, but of all the fast food places I have been they are always the cleanest.
Report Post »KingCanon
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 5:50pmAll playlands, pools and rumpus rooms are FILTHY! ALL OF THEM!
Report Post »And just ask me about restaurants with buffets and how all
waitresses are cross contaminating every customers beverage!
JUST ASK…
Therightsofbilly
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 8:55pmI smell another government agency in the making here.
Report Post »Watermain
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 5:44pmCotton candy, who’d of thought…
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 5:41pmRug Rats… What do you expect?
Report Post »kindling
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 4:48pmI only ate there one time and it was the salad bar and I ended up in the ER with the worst case of food poisoning ever. That was about 30 years ago and I will never eat there or any place that has games and things for kids to do as they walk by the saiad bar and pick up things and drop them.
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 4:46pmAh yes, there are horrors everywhere. Even at Chuck E. Cheese. Life is made of unending horror. Shush. Shush. Quit this phony, absurd demonic despair. Let Beck take over this site.
Kidnappers. I just hope Beck is at least as sane as I am.
Report Post »Jase
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 8:37pmJudging by your post, I don’t see how he could be any less sane than you.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 4:36pm…
Report Post »I’ve seen and heard a lot worse than this.
That’s why my family quit going out to restaurants with play areas.
Hickory
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 4:21pmI don‘t think I would take a kid near Chuckie’s. All of those places have a history of fights between adults. Some have resulted in gun battles. Many years ago when they first opened, my oldest grandchild had a birthday party there. None of us have been back since because the place was over run with gang bangers. Some of the kids were completely out of control with toddlers running around with soiled diapers. Besides, the food was awful.
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 5:38pmThere are also perv laws keeping them away from schools but Chucky’s free range.
Report Post »hatchetjob
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 4:03pmHe didn’t finish the story, who eventually cleaned the poop tube??
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 4:23pmits still there
i saw it last week
Report Post »Bub47
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 5:49pmPsycosis: So that was you in the tube??
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 9:26pmNobody!!
Report Post »vinnymac46
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:58pmWhat everyone seems to be missing is that Chuck E. Cheese has established rules and regulations for these types of incidents, but the HUMAN side of it, chooses to ignore them. Drunk drivers, HUMANS, are killing other HUMANS everyday, yet alcohol and cars are still being sold.
Report Post »joarivera
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:51pmI do not think that I will be taking my kids to Chuck E. Cheese’s anymore.
Report Post »Doctor Nordo
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:41pmApparently it‘s news that Chuck E Cheese’s is a germ factory? Gee, who knew?
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:39pmWhen I was a kid in the 80′s I believe it was called “Showbiz Pizza”. It was THE place to go, especially for birthdays. Nowadays, it’s like a family ghetto. If I had kids, sadly, I wouldn’t go anywhere near a Chuck E. Cheese.
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:49pmYep. I remember Showbiz back in the early eighty’s
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on May 13, 2012 at 3:36pmNow I know why I’ve never taken my kids to that place…. They Chuck E Cheeses advertise on the PBS channels… The Corrupt Dept of Education approves of taking kids to the places… No wonder the education system is so horrid. Race for the Top of S pile.
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