Welp, Yelp.... here it goes.
Planned my sons 7th birthday at this place... booked everything online. Because I booked online and on a Sunday, I automatically get 100 extra tokens. I opted to get the cake and the individual cups of ice cream from CEC also. All in all... online booking was as smooth as a whistle.
Day of:
Walked in and the guy stamped my sons and my wrist. Right in front of us there was a sign that said "stand here for parties or reservations". So we stood there... and stood there. There was no one at any of the registers. Then a girl came up, stood at the register all the way on the opposite side of where the sign told us to stand and asked if she can help us... and in the same breath started talking crap to the guy that was handing out wrist stamps. She was telling him how lazy he was for not helping her, and he was hooting and hollering back... all the while my son and I were in the crossfire, even though we were just asked if we could be helped. Finally the girl regained her focus and I told her we were there for a party... so then she moved us to the other register... again, where I was to begin with and just told us that the manager will be out to seat us. Im not sure why you have to be in a certain spot to tell a customer that a manager will be up shortly.
Anyway, manager comes and greets us, and takes us to our tables. As we get closer she explains that only part of our tables were ready because the other party wont get to steppin'. It literally took 10 more minutes to get that other party to leave... and then they never really did come back and wipe down tables.
Our hostess for the afternoon comes introduces herself, confirms my online order and drink order and goes and gets our drinks. I asked the girl for my 100 extra tokens and she says she'll be right back with them. The kids all go play. Pizza comes about 45 minutes later. Kids eat pizza, and go back to playing. Then its party time... Chuck E Cheese comes out and does his rock star birthday stuff with the kids, then its cake time. So we cut the cake, serve the cake and the hostess disappears. Thinking she went to get the ice cream, we continue to eat cake. Kids are done with cake, clean up their plates and again, go play. 10 MINUTES LATER the hostess comes back with ice cream. I told her that the kids are done... they are on to the next thing and wont want to come back and now eat ice cream. Wow... 10 minutes later? She took the ice cream back, but just lost $6 in sales and also a big portion of her tip.
When things started winding down, almost 2 hours later, I again told the girl I never got my 100 free tokens. She left again and actually brought them back to me this time. But... we couldnt use them really... we were just about done. We will use them on the next visit.
Time to pay... hostess gives me a survey card and asks me to fill it out while she goes and bills my credit card. She comes back, hovers over me while Im filling out this card, so I just hand it to her. I was honest on the card, rating my experience just "fair" and hell yeah you guys can improve.
My hostess didnt say another word to me the rest of the time we were there. She swooped up the table cloth with all the drinks and what not and took everything. Wow... ok... no warning, no heads up? No final call on the 2 full pitchers of soda that I JUST REFILLED MYSELF SINCE YOU DIDNT DO IT THE ENTIRE TIME WE WERE SITTING THERE?
What a horrible hostess. I had her tip in my pocket waiting for her to thank us and say good bye to the birthday boy... but she had such a bad attitude regarding my comment card, I assume... that she never came back but to destroy the birthday tables. Needless to say, I am $20 richer tonight.
The prize counter was RIDICULOUS. One girl working with about 25 kids waiting for their turn. What a waste of time.
Anyway... the experience as an adult was crappy... but my sons lack of ice cream with his cake, or loss of 100 tokens to share with his friends didnt phase him... so over all he had a good time.
Pizza was meh... vanilla cake was decent... ice cream, hmmmm... and service sucked. read more