{"id":99,"date":"2011-02-28T10:42:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T15:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2011-03-03T09:56:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T14:56:35","slug":"community-based-eatertainment-venue-sales-on-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/community-based-eatertainment-venue-sales-on-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Community-Based Eatertainment Venue Sales on Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comparable store sales at a number of public eatertainment companies are showing increases, indicating an increase in consumer spending at community-based entertainment-oriented venues.<\/p>\n<p>Chuck E. Cheese\u2019s (CEC Entertainment) reported that their comparable stores sales increased 3.9% for their fourth quarter and 1.5% for all of 2010. By month, the 4<sup>th<\/sup> quarter saw the following increases: +3.5% October, +6.2% November and +2.3% December. Here\u2019s the breakdown by region of the country:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Chuck-E-Cheese-comparable-sales.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-100\" title=\"Chuck E Cheese comparable sales\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Chuck-E-Cheese-comparable-sales-300x152.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Chuck-E-Cheese-comparable-sales-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Chuck-E-Cheese-comparable-sales.jpg 394w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Main Event, the operator of hybrid bowling-entertainment centers in Texas, reported a 14.5% increase in comparable store sales during the last half of 2010, with events business up 30% and walk-in business up 10%.<\/p>\n<p>Dave &amp; Buster\u2019s, the operator of centers targeting young adults, saw a 1.5% increase in comparable store sales during their 4<sup>th <\/sup>quarter. Since their 4<sup>th<\/sup> quarter ended January 30, 2011, whereas Chuck E. Cheese\u2019s and Main Event\u2019s fiscal years ended at the end of the 2010 calendar year, D&amp;B\u2019s slower sales growth reflects the negative impact of the bad winter weather during January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comparable store sales at a number of public eatertainment companies are showing increases, indicating an increase in consumer spending at community-based entertainment-oriented venues. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/community-based-eatertainment-venue-sales-on-increase\/\">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":[48,17],"tags":[39,49,324,50],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eatertainment","category-location-based-entertainment","tag-chuck-e-cheeses","tag-dave-busters","tag-eatertainment","tag-main-event"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4dB0k-1B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitehutchinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}