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Quickly skimming it, I found no evidence of what the future actually held, from Wikipedia [1]: > In 1981, Pizza Time Theatre went public; they lost $15 million
by NotOscarWilde 3y ago
Quickly skimming it, I found no evidence of what the future actually held, from Wikipedia [1]:
> In 1981, Pizza Time Theatre went public; they lost $15 million in 1983. By early 1984, Bushnell's debts were insurmountable, resulting in the filing of Chapter 11 bankruptcy for Pizza Time Theatre Inc. on March 28, 1984.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_E._Cheese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_E._Cheese
- chris_wot 3y agoI rather like that in Australia they couldn’t call it Chuck E. Cheese because that meant vomiting.
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- Uehreka 3y agoI guess that explains why their sports arena “The Chunderdome” didn’t take off either.
- qingcharles 3y agoMy name is Charles. I moved to the USA and everyone tries to call me "Chuck", which to my British psyche is horrible for the same linguistic reason.
- arcanemachiner 3y agoLook on the bright side: At least your name isn't 'Richard'.
- akiselev 3y agoHey man, don't be a Dick.
- grogenaut 3y agoI am currently wearing a "don't be a Richard" shirt which is one of my home improvement shirts. 2 different checkout folks at 2 different hardware stores were calling over coworkers because they both apparently had managers off today named Richard who were in fact "Richards".
- porknubbins 3y agoLol now I’m curious what is your other home improvement shirt. I could use an official way to convey to people that I may look like I’m just puttering around but I am actually on a diy mission.
- grogenaut 3y agooh by diy shirts I mean all the shirts that I have oil stains on or paint... that I wear when I just don't give a f or hwne I know I'm going to get more dirty. I have one that is an old mozzila appu shirt... with a sweet gtradient on it. The gradient came from me usinga circular slot cutter on a mill that tossed metal and oil at my midline and taperd off as it fell.
- kristopolous 3y agoAs an aside, people often misattribute where that word comes from. It's from dicker - squandering time by squabbling over petty things https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dicker https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dicker It's certainly not polite but people claiming it's lewd have about as much ground to stand on as they do with the word "pussycat"
- spywaregorilla 3y agopusy and dick are common terms for lewd things. pussycat and dicker are not.
- PhasmaFelis 3y agoPast etymology isn't really relevant to how a word is actually used today. There are plenty of awful slurs that were once everyday words used offensively.
- Scoundreller 3y agoThis definitely applies if your last name is "Armey". But some people just run with it!
- becurious 3y agoBeing called Randolph would be worse.
- bombcar 3y agoThe doubling of restaurants in 1982 is a pretty good indicator that it was going to explode. That kind of growth is often unsustainable.
- tmpz22 3y agoYeah instant 2x headcount growth is a pretty blaring warning. Good thing we learned the lesson well in the 80s and haven't repeated it since. And these lessons are incorporated into business programs world wide and taught to each new generation so that they may permeate the business landscape and prevent unnecessary hardships. This is why I advocate advanced degrees in business for folks looking to enter leadership positions.
- bebop 3y agoWas this comment satire?
- bombcar 3y agoIt is dripping with it.
- dangus 3y ago2x headcount growth without additional information isn't a warning on its own. If I am a solo founder and hire my first employee, that's 2x headcount growth. Between 1970 and 1971, Walmart went from 38 to 51 stores, 1500 to 2300 employees [1]. Not quite 2x, but still, not exactly a "blaring warning" or "red flag" in hindsight. https://one.walmart.com/content/walmartmuseum/en_us/timeline/decades/1970.html https://one.walmart.com/content/walmartmuseum/en_us/timeline...
- sverhagen 3y agoTimes of great change (that growth) are risky. Even if it is not a blaring warning in the sense that failure is then unavoidable...
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- seizethecheese 3y agoRapid expansion seemed to serve the owners goals (from Nolan Bushnell’s Wikipedia page. He also started Atari.) > It had been created by Bushnell, originally as a place where kids could go and eat pizza and play video games, which would therefore function as a distribution channel for Atari games.
- lordfrito 3y agoLittle known fact, the idea came to Bushnell when he was still running Atari. He was waiting for pizza and realized these bored people would pay to pay games while waiting. [1] Bushnell was frustrated that Atari only got money on the original sale of a coin-op machine, while the operators got continuous revenue from the machine. He figured Atari could get in on the operations game by running a restaurant. Atari built/ran the first Chuck E Cheese and Atari engineers (and Atari think tank Cyan Engineering) designed the robots. Restaurant opening party was private for Atari staff. The mascot was originally going to be called Rick Rat, until marketing suggested that associating a rat with the restaurant wasn't the best idea. When Warner Communications bought out Atari, they didn't understand it or want it, so Bushnell bought it out from them and continued running it. [1] https://www.fastcompany.com/40425172/robots-pizza-and-magic-the-chuck-e-cheese-origin-story https://www.fastcompany.com/40425172/robots-pizza-and-magic-...
- kvandy 3y agoRick Rat is the most programmer idea for a mascot ever
- mensetmanusman 3y agoWe will call it "no bugs games and pizza!"