With a handful of game tokens, mouthful of cheese pizza and earful of arcade sounds, people across the U.S. remember going to Chuck E. Cheese and being mesmerized by the animatronic show that Chuck E.

For many people who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, having a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese, ShowBiz Pizza Place, or any other kid-centric restaurant that featured animatronic entertainment was the ...