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I got this from a survey on fark called “what was your favorite now-extinct restaurant chain?”

As a kid growing up in New Jersey, Razz-A-Ma-Tazz was always a favorite place. Think a low rent Chuck-E-Cheese. They had the worst pizza in NJ and a lame robot animated animal band that would play for five minutes on stage before shutting down for 30 minutes so they could cool down. Did have good arcade games and skee ball though.

Went there as a day camp counselor a day before they closed for good. Our wonderful little charges proceeded to throw skee balls all over the place.

When it was time to eat, they threw pizza at the curtain covering the stage. When the curtain went up, and the one working robot (7 were busted by then) started banging the drums, the kids threw more pizza and soda while some of the more intellectually gifted ones went on stage and started beating on the ‘bots.

The whole group got kicked out.

Good times.

When I read this, I laughed so hard I cried. I remember going to chucky cheese and showbiz pizza as a kid and loving it. I can only imagine what the parents thought of all of those screaming, hyperactive children crammed into a small, windowless area while buzzers and music from animatronic bands sounded from every direction.