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IamA Chuck E Cheese worker who has worn the suit and everything in between! AMA!
My short bio: I work at a restaurant called Chuck E Cheese where I have "woken Chuck E up" i.e put on the suit, delivered pizzas, bussed tables, ran the merchandise table, and just about everything else. My Proof: http://imgur.com/a/J0D15
hedgehoger122 karma
Not too often. Most of the parents control their kids. I remeber one time, a kid almost ripped the head off and the family was escorted out
BigOlRick69 karma
How many times have you been followed around the arcade by someone dressed in a cat suit? That's always been a dream of mine, curious as to how common it is..
notjonahbutnoah69 karma
Obligatory: What's the craziest thing that ever happened while you were working?
hedgehoger100 karma
Aforementioned kid tried to rip my head off.. OR when a family dropped their entire birthday cake on the ground in anger. Guess who had to scape cake out if the floor at 9pm..
hedgehoger98 karma
In addition to the suit, we have an actual animatronic and most kids are wary of it, just in case...
hedgehoger85 karma
Well it doesn't smell which is good. The only reason being with the new "cute" mascot, we got a new suit so its not horrible. It does get extremely hot in there though. You wear an oversized longsleeved shirt, a pair of fur gloves, a pair of thick Jean pants, and a head. So all the layers get super hot over the uniform
foxesforsale26 karma
If the suit starts to smell, spray inside it with some vodka, it'll kill the bacteria making it smell. Then again, getting vodka into a CEC is probably not a great idea...
eeisner47 karma
I just want to let you know that you're fellow Chuck E Cheese costume wearers terrified the living shit out of me as a young child. One day, I was so scared that I got taken back into the changing room with my mom and Chuck E so that I could see that there is just some teenage girl under there. Looking back, that's much creepier than it seemed.
Anyways... What do you usually do when kids are freaking the fuck out in front of you?
hellomarvelousthings5 karma
My grandparents used to take me to CEC and I would spend an hour in the ball pit and then leave. The year they got rid of the ball pit, 6 year old me swore I would never go back.
Jbasco37 karma
Has a kid every gotten really attached to you? As in they just follow you around all day/don't want to leave you alone.
hedgehoger53 karma
Totally. Everyone loves chuck e. The closet we store the costume in is next to where we do parties and this little girl almost followed me in
PeeledPancake27 karma
Use to work at chuck e cheese, was curious, did all the Chuck E Cheeses get the pipes removed? The one I worked at moved and they took out the tubes.
Blazeforthecamera27 karma
Have you ever got laid in the suit or hooked up with a mom you met at the Chuck E. Cheese?
hedgehoger31 karma
I get 50% of all meals and also I'm entered in drawings to get free tokens or tickets, etc
cXem13 karma
So you don't have unlimited freedom of tokens? When my brother used to work at one like 8 years ago, he used to get all the tokens he wanted, and got to play games for around a hour after closing during cleanup. Was slightly more towards knowing the token collector though, even though the manager clearly knew.
hedgehoger15 karma
We get some extra tokens sometimes if we find them, and if we want to stry after we could.. blegh
gill615110 karma
My mother used to work there, the managers would let us use unlimited tokens. Just couldnt keep the tickets.
gill61514 karma
which as a kid, we would go to work with her. & play games for 9 hours. eat pizza, tbh we did it because we were so broke at the time. couldnt afford baby sitting. (Dad out of the picture, 6 kids.)
lol203419 karma
Ayyy, I work at one right now. Been here for three years. Overall, how do you feel about working at CEC? I absolutely loved my job for a while, but over these three years, I don't really enjoy it anymore.
lol20343 karma
Try running the churros through the oven halfway. They do suck when put in the oven full pass, but halfway is perfect. Slightly crunchy exterior, nice and chewy interior.
jakeWolfe8714 karma
How many kids that you've approached were utterly terrified by you? I know when I was little the person actually walking around in the suit scared the hell out of me more then the animatronics on stage ever did
Mega_Goodra14 karma
Are you annoyed by Five Nights at Freddy's fans? I know a lot of them go to Chuck E Cheese and usually harass the employees. So have you had any bad experiences with them? Just wondering, as I am a pretty big FNaF fan myself, and I'm just wondering if any fans have done stupid shit at Chuck E Cheese.
hedgehoger13 karma
I've seen people ask me about fnaf but I've never been harassed or anything thankfully.
Pepe_leprawn14 karma
Have you ever let a kid see you without the mask on? I remember vividly seeing the guy wearing the costume through a side door and it ruined me.
hedgehoger13 karma
We try not to. There's a tiny closet where we store the suit. I've had kids try to see me though.
Scwne14 karma
Have you ever had to deal with any wild kids while you've worked there? Have you seen any?
Helyqy13 karma
Have sales for Chuck E Cheese soared since the release of "Five Nights at Freddy's"?
hedgehoger12 karma
Definitely. It is difficult because we can't allow people under 18 without adults so a lot of kids try to sneak in
optionsquare12 karma
As a non-american person, I first became aware of Chuck E. Cheese's existence through Dexter's Lab's spoof, Chubby Cheese. Sounds like a great place to hang out, as a kid. How long have you been working for them?
hedgehoger23 karma
There was a time where 2 dad's got to the merch counter at the same time and got into a huge argument and even brought the children into it calling them all "stupid annoying spoiled etc.) We had to call a manager and eventually the police.
hedgehoger19 karma
Not very often actually :) I've had a kid hit me though. We are supposed to use a "time out signal" to tell the coworker who is escorting us to tell them to stop
hedgehoger13 karma
We stay in the suit any time between 20 or 30 minutes 3 times a day. We only suit up for birthday parties or ticket splashes which we are required to do at least once a day
ThatOneGuyInTX11 karma
Once a day? Wow the Chuck E Cheese I worked at required us to do it every hour. Guess who had to do it 6 times a shift :)
hedgehoger5 karma
Basically we (we being chuck e and amln escort) throw tickets into the crowd
joshmanzors9 karma
I'm an arcade technician operating independently right now. Who fixes the games?
viceroynutegunray8 karma
If you could have any prize from behind the counter what would it be?
31theories8 karma
Oh wow! CEC Entertainment was my first job! I miss the old breadsticks they use to make....way better than the new ones. Do you guys still have an employee of the month program or did that get cut?
revanon6 karma
What goes into the pizza that makes it so genuinely impressively mediocre? How many folks will go there just to eat the pizza?
hedgehoger12 karma
Most people go to play games and buy pizza. And the pizzas are actually homemade, but that might just be us
hedgehoger41 karma
So this actually happened the other day. We usually have at least 2 parties everyday.someone read the reservation sheet wrong that says either princess or super hero depending on the kid. The host coworker accidentally put out a princess crown and party stuff instead of the superhero for a boys party and the mom got so offended claiming that if he "became gay" it would be our fault.
Kanjarwalla22 karma
if he "became gay" it would be our fault.
Hahaha. Is that even possible?
Dean_Craig_Pelton5 karma
How many times a day do you have to hear the Chuck E song? Also how many times a day do you actually sing along to the Chuck E song?
Tucana665 karma
Does the suit in your store ever get cleaned? (How is it cleaned?) Inside and out?
hedgehoger19 karma
Well its not a field of roses, but we do clean it And by clean it we mean spray it with deodorizer. It's not really a suit as it is a costume.. There's a head and a bunch of novelty sized clothing
cilantroisevil3 karma
Do you get to make it rain tickets on the kids? I bet that would make you feel very God-esque in the moment.
BOX_OF_CATS3 karma
Did you want kids before you started working there? Have you changed your mind since then?
hedgehoger8 karma
I personally don't want kids l, especially don't want them now because there are some spoiled kids there
costinmatei982 karma
I'm more curious about the animatronics. First off what kind of stage do you have there? (3 stage, road show...). Secondly, do they still work off of the old vhs or of dvd? And finally how often do they get maintenence, cus most i have seen are really sqeaky. Sory for the many questiones, i'm into robotics...
hedgehoger3 karma
We have 1 animatronic now of chucke that routinely does dances and songs every hour. We also oil the joints and use dvds
Grambam362 karma
At the location I go at I see kids cheating/breaking games, messing with the mascot, or scared to death(Of Chuck E.), Sometimes I see kids enjoying there time(Sometimes I'm happy to see them because I know I'm not the only sane one there.). Is this what you see in your location?
hedgehoger2 karma
Most of the kids at our location are pretty relaxed and ha0py. We do get some troublemakers thougb
BlazeDP0 karma
Hiya, Random question but oh well, If you where a sandwich what would be your filling and why?
merck890104 karma
How often do you want to sucker punch a kid, while you're in the suit?
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