• axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      61 year ago

      I know people who order pizza from Chuck-E-Cheese? Who goes there for the food? You go for the weird Star Wars arcade game and the scary animatronics

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          41 year ago

          Yeah those kinds of places can’t survive when working people have no disposable income. It’s part of what’s driving all the isolation and lonliness. All the free third places are long gone except libraries, and many of the paid third places are collapsing because there isn’t enough disposable income going around to keep them open. People stay home and doomscroll because they already paid for the phone plan and can’t afford to do anything else.

        • uralsolo [he/him]
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          51 year ago

          The ghost kitchen is at least priced competitively with other low-rent pizza joints. Last time I went to a Chuck E Cheese the pizzas were like $10 each and worse than Little Caesars.

      • uralsolo [he/him]
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        51 year ago

        the scary animatronics

        Last time I went they replaced the scary animatronics with a big LCD screen sicko-wistful

          • uralsolo [he/him]
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            51 year ago

            If Chuck e Cheese hasn’t done some kind of FNAF crossover event that’d be really surprising to me, literally money on the table.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        31 year ago

        There’s some meme about getting greasy cardboard in the dirty robot place where the mascot is a rat but I can’t find it.

    • citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]
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      61 year ago

      Dude probably doesn’t tip on that order and writes in “you got to awooga and I didn’t, there’s your tip” in the notes, so it’s actually saving money on the order vs other places.