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Is Chuck E. Cheese's Really Chuck E. Diseases?

Friday, December 5, 2008

As parents, we've all taken our kids to child-friendly restaurants. After our co-worker claimed to have gotten ringworm from Chuck E. Cheese's, we all started to wonder ... is this happy place really as clean and safe as it seems? We decided to do our own investigation and find out. Get ready for ... GROSS!

With the help of world famous germ expert "Dr. Germ," aka Dr. Charles Gerba, momlogic decided to find out what kind of bacteria our kids are exposed to while playing and eating at everyone's favorite pizza party place.

We tested three California Chuck E. Cheese's locations: one in Pasadena, one in Sun Valley and one in Burbank. Under Dr. Gerba's supervision, momlogic swabbed numerous surfaces in the restaurant and arcade including games, play mats, trays, tables and high chairs. Those samples were then sealed and shipped to Dr. Gerba's lab for analysis. What we found surprised even Dr. Gerba ... and shocked the hell out of us!


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That is so disgusting. We have only been 2or 3 times with our kids. One place we do go that is sanitary is pump it up. They have the big inflatables. They clean them after each party group goes through. I have seen them and you can smell the sanitizer all over the place and the kids eat afterwards. I really like it there. Another thing we shouldn’t let our kids do is get their faces painted. My son got impetigo up his nose therefore it popped up right next to his eye. He had two breakouts before the doctors figured out what it was. It all started about 5 days after he got his face painted.
- ashley
Posted 12/03/08 08:03 AM
 
I knew about this years ago and refused to let my kids go there any more. My nephew only goes with hand sanitizer and he still ends up sick. Daycare places have to bleach all their toys, why doesn’t the health dept make these places to the same? Yuck!
- jennifer
Posted 12/03/08 11:31 AM
 
That place is nasty. Plus, some parents think its a daycare and leave their kids there. Those kids and some other unfortunate kids walk around begging people for money and tokens, both sad and annoying as hell. Oh, and kids poop in the ball pit.
- just sayin'
Posted 12/03/08 11:32 AM
 
Alot of low class people go to CC.
- Anonymous
Posted 12/03/08 01:26 PM
 
Hello germs are everywhere from your home to the store to your car to the bathrooms.. No matter how good you clean your home you will still get germs due to leaving your home.. FYI not even true about low class people go to C.C. I worked for some rich families and they take their children to C.C. Get over it germs are here to stay..
- get over it
Posted 12/03/08 03:27 PM
 
From the article: “What we found surprised even Dr. Gerba … and shocked the hell out of us!” I’m sorry, but as a mother of seven, I find that kind of salty language unacceptable in a family-friendly site! My youngest, Elmer, was reading this article with me, and I had to explain what h e double hockey sticks meant. Please refrain from using the H-word again.
- Martha Buegelheimer
Posted 12/04/08 11:41 AM
 
Come on! What place is sterile? I wish someone did cultures at the home of the reporter of this story!
- Rosanna
Posted 12/04/08 11:44 AM
 
Funny how my family always gets sick after visiting this so called family restaurant, Now I know why, just disgusting.
- Rick
Posted 12/04/08 12:43 PM
 
I used to go to Chuck E. Cheese pretty regularly as a kid. I never got sick. I still never get sick. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Quit freaking out. Let your kids be kids.
- Anonymous
Posted 12/04/08 12:45 PM
 
Germaphobe. I know what that’s like…
- The Hamburglar
Posted 12/04/08 12:56 PM
 
This is not news, everyone who has kids know that germs live with children. It’s a parents job to keep their kids clean. There is no such a thing as germ free in this world. Unfortunately we can’t control it. If you got grossed out by those germs then you really don’t want to know what type of germs are on everyday places you touch. Get over it you snotty people.
- Anonymous
Posted 12/04/08 12:58 PM
 
I knew mother was right to forbid me from going!
- Seymour Skinner
Posted 12/04/08 01:20 PM
 
CEC doesn’t even have ball pits and crawl structures, at least here. Its just games and rides. Germs are gonna be in every public establishment regardless. This article makes it seem like Chuck E Cheese is the plague and Dave and Busters has nothing wrong with it. Sure, allow your child to live in a bubble, don’t take them anywhere but your (supposedly) sterile house and then watch them get fat, lazy and smelly.
- Anonymous
Posted 12/04/08 02:09 PM
 
“Alot of low class people go to CC.” And most low class people spell it “alot” instead of “a lot”. Get over yourselves people. Its a fun place for kids. If you are so afraid of your spoiled little angels getting sick…don’t let them leave the house. Its parents like you who are damning the future leaders of this country.
- Kaiser
Posted 12/04/08 02:25 PM
 
I, for one, welcome Chuck E. Cheese into my neighborhood. They have traditionally been very good for business, despite the additional hazard insurance I must take out on my storefronts.
- Col. Sanders
Posted 12/04/08 02:30 PM
 
I guess making children inhale vast amounts of extremely toxic cleaning chemicals, is much better than having them eat a Pizza with some bacteria that their bodies have a natural defense against. Right. Filthy Hypochondriacs.
- Patty O'Furniture
Posted 12/04/08 02:35 PM
 
If momlogic is this worried about germs, wait til one of their writers gets word about what DUST is made out of.
- Anonymous
Posted 12/04/08 02:42 PM
 
Germs are what an immune system is for. If you never get sick then you’ll never build up any immunities. Then when you do get sick, you’ll get really sick. Kids have germs, get over it.
- Chuck
Posted 12/04/08 06:10 PM
 
“I knew about this years ago and refused to let my kids go there any more. My nephew only goes with hand sanitizer and he still ends up sick. Daycare places have to bleach all their toys, why doesn’t the health dept make these places to the same? Yuck! - jennifer” How do you suggest you bleach an arcade machine, genius?
- Chuck
Posted 12/04/08 06:12 PM
 
“From the article: “What we found surprised even Dr. Gerba … and shocked the hell out of us!” I’m sorry, but as a mother of seven, I find that kind of salty language unacceptable in a family-friendly site! My youngest, Elmer, was reading this article with me, and I had to explain what h e double hockey sticks meant. Please refrain from using the H-word again. - Martha Buegelheimer” Right. Do you write to the editors of books and magazines to have them republish censored content so that you won’t have to teach your precious little snowflake what a word means? The first amendment guarantees us freedom of speech. If you don’t like it, don’t use the internet. Who are you to tell people what words they’re allowed or not allowed to use? I find your stupidity level unacceptable and must ask you to leave the internet.
- Jack
Posted 12/04/08 06:17 PM

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