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Chuck E. Cheese

4 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 27, 2017 by Nolan Bushnell · said 37 times in 3 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Feb 27, 2017
Insight
Entertainment retail businesses risk overbuilding due to early novelty-driven demand spikes
“Entertainment is very fragile. It's driven on novelty. And so when we would first open A unit. People would come from all around because it was novel. So there was sort of a half-life of a shine in which you say, gee, you know, this is St. Louis. Looks to me l…”
Nolan Bushnell Feb 27, 2017 ▶ 39:45 Atari & Chuck E. Cheese's: Nolan Bushnell
Feb 27, 2017
Disclosure
Bushnell bought Chuck E. Cheese back for $500,000 paid over five years
“The one open store was cash flowing half a million dollars a year. And they let me pay it a 100,000 a year for five years.”
Nolan Bushnell Feb 27, 2017 ▶ 38:03 Atari & Chuck E. Cheese's: Nolan Bushnell
Mar 26, 2018
Insight
Bushnell: Entertainment is fragile because it is driven by novelty
“Entertainment is very fragile. It's driven on novelty.”
Nolan Bushnell Mar 26, 2018 ▶ 40:07 Atari & Chuck E. Cheese's: Nolan Bushnell (2017)
Mar 26, 2018 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Bushnell bought Chuck E. Cheese from Warner for $500,000 over five years
“And that was all the technology and the one open store. The one open store was cash flowing half a million dollars a year. And they let me pay it a 100,000 a year for five years.”
Nolan Bushnell Mar 26, 2018 ▶ 38:21 Atari & Chuck E. Cheese's: Nolan Bushnell (2017)
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