In the past I've had a great experience at this location. Which is why I chose to celebrate my sons 1st birthday there this past Saturday. However, this was the worst experience for me and my family.
I don't know if they are under knew management or had all brand new employees because I did not receive the same customer service that I had in the past. When I first came (20 minutes early to have everything set up before my guests arrived), it was already chaotic. The lady at the front was scrambling through the stickers trying to find mine and my sons name tags for the party. We were supposed to be greeted by our party planner and escorted to our table so get everything started. No one came up to us and I had to ask who our party planner was. None of the employees knew which party they were in charge of and we were delayed just to be brought to our table. When we were finally seated, one of the managers greeted us and we were introduced to our party planner. I thought things would start turning around and that my experience would be better at that point. I was sadly mistaken.
After selecting my menu options my party planner asked "you know how everything works right?" When I responded with yes (since I had planned my oldest sons 2nd birthday there the previous year), all he said was "okay" and walked away. Seriously? He should have still walked me through the plans of the party. After that, my party planner, Matt, was missing half of the party. The food for my guests came late and I had to continue hunting him down to request for the food. On top of that, when it was time to sing happy birthday, I was not even given an advance notice so I could gather my guests and prepare my son. Matt just placed the cake on the table and stood in the front waiting for the happy birthday song to play. One of my guests pointed out saying "are they going to sing happy birthday?" So I walked up to him and had to ask and Matt said "yeah". One minute later I heard the happy birthday song playing on the speakers and just had to sing along, with half of my guests not even aware that we were singing happy birthday. I couldn't believe it.
During the chuck e cheese greeting, I requested for more pizza and salad plates for my guests and Matt said he would put in the order after chuck e cheese greeted the kids (understandable). However, 20 minutes after the meet and greet with chuck e cheese, the pizza had still not come to our table. I asked my sister to look for Matt so I could apologize to our guests for the delay. I was shocked when my sister told me she found Matt, but he was too busy taking pictures - selfies to be more specific. Then I found him doing some type of camera interview and joking around with his coworkers versus attending to our party and making sure we had everything we needed. The rest of the party planners were also sitting in the front, discussing getting new jobs at The Habit while also taking selfies instead of attending to their guests. When Matt finally came around to our table I asked about the pizza I asked for 20 minutes ago. His response was "Oh yeah, what did you order again?" He hadn't even placed the order yet! I was furious inside but held my composure for my guests.
When the pizza finally came I noticed that it was going away quick so I asked for two more and his response was "Okay, but will you be ready to close out your orders after this?" I couldn't believe how rude he was being throughout the entire party (for the few moments that I saw him at least). Even my guests complained to me that he was being very rude to them when he served them the pizza. After all was said and done and they started cleaning up our party to prepare for the next one, Matt came up to me and asked me if I wanted to do the ticket blaster (which comes with the party package). I was so busy hunting him down the entire party, I hadn't even realized that we didn't get to do the ticket blaster & he asks me AFTER the party is already over? We never ended up being able to do the ticket blaster.
After I received the bill I asked to speak to his manager. I was expressing my concern and she compensated me $20 off of the final bill. At the time I was okay because she was doing something to try and make up for it, but after coming home and thinking about it, compensating me $20 for a horrendous experience for my sons 1st birthday is like a slap in the face. I will never return to this chuck e cheese and have already recommended that my friends and family do the same. read more