Police say an employee of Chuck E. Cheese was arrested at one of the chain's Florida restaurants while wearing the furry mask of the family restaurant's mascot mouse.

Feb. 9 is National Pizza Day and businesses across the nation are celebrating with discounted pizza and other specials.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Chuck E. Cheese - where kids could be kids while parents nursed headaches - is filing for bankruptcy protection. CEC Entertainment Inc. has reopened 266 company-operated Chuck E. Cheese and Peter Piper Pizza restaurants, but it's unclear how willing parents will be to host birthday parties and other gatherings. Chuck E. Cheese got its start in 1977, when Atari cofounder Nolan Bushnell opened Chuck E. Cheeses Pizza Time Theatre in San Jose, California. Fast food restaurants and those that offer takeout have done better, but restaurants that rely on dining in - like Chuck E. Cheese - have been hammered. At one point, perhaps recognizing its disadvantage, some Chuck E Cheese locations began offering food delivery on apps like Grubhub under the alias Pasquallys Pizza & Wings.

Chuck E. Cheese - where kids could be kids while parents nursed headaches - is filing for bankruptcy protection. The 43-year-old chain, which drew kids with pizza, video games and a singing mouse mascot, was struggling even before the coronavirus pandemic. Chuck E. Cheese got its start in 1977, when Atari cofounder Nolan Bushnell opened Chuck E. Cheeses Pizza Time Theatre in San Jose, California. The pandemic was a final straw, hammering restaurants like Chuck E. Cheese that relied on dine-in traffic and weren't set up to do takeout. Chuck E. Cheese will certainly not be the last pandemic-inflicted bankruptcy, but it will definitely be one of the most interesting to follow, he said.