{"id":441,"date":"2013-08-15T13:50:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T18:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/?p=441"},"modified":"2013-08-15T13:50:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T18:50:40","slug":"has-chuck-e-cheeses-turned-the-corner-on-comparable-store-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/has-chuck-e-cheeses-turned-the-corner-on-comparable-store-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Chuck E. Cheese\u2019s Turned the Corner on Comparable Store Sales?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in June, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/news\/lenews\/2013_june\/article104.shtml\">article<\/a>\u00a0in our Leisure eNewsletter analyzed <i>Chuck E. Cheese\u2019s<\/i> performance over the past 10 years. It was not a pretty picture, especially when it came to their annual comparable same store sales, which have shown a constant decline since 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Results are in for their first two quarters of 2013 and finally there is a positive trend. Perhaps <i>CEC Entertainment<\/i>, the parent company, has finally turned the corner with the menu, mascot, marketing and other changes they have made at their stores.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/CEC-qrtly-comparable-store-sales.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-442\" alt=\"CEC qrtly comparable store sales\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/CEC-qrtly-comparable-store-sales.png\" width=\"1443\" height=\"1137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/CEC-qrtly-comparable-store-sales.png 1443w, https:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/CEC-qrtly-comparable-store-sales-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/CEC-qrtly-comparable-store-sales-1024x806.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1443px) 100vw, 1443px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Results are in for their first two quarters of 2013 and . . .  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/has-chuck-e-cheeses-turned-the-corner-on-comparable-store-sales\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55,73],"tags":[155,39,156],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-entertainment","category-chuck-e-cheeses-2","tag-cec-entertainment","tag-chuck-e-cheeses","tag-comparable-store-sales"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4dB0k-77","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}