A thread on Metafilter looks back at Chuck E. Cheese and ShowBiz pizza places where a cavalcade of animatronics would serenade youngsters as they alternately tossed pizza down their gullets and played video games. One commenter boils it down:
Robot furries that sing, entertain you, then bring you carbs.
That made me smile.
I always thought that those types of places were created by the Las Vegas parent company/casinos to train future gamblers!!!
🙂