To get a kick out of Showbiz Pizza Place, you don`t have to own some munchkins or borrow a few nieces or nephews. But kids do play a big part at this sprawling restaurant and entertainment center.

Jul. 22—AUTHOR'S NOTE — I recently wrote about the Rock-afire Explosion and long-defunct '80s eatery Showbiz Pizza for the food issue of Mud and Magnolias magazine, which inspired me to revisit this ...

Faithful readers will know I am not even close to finished exploiting my painful job experiences at the Chuck E. Cheese in the Bergen Mall for Gizmodo fodder. God I hate that place. When I was growing ...

If you experienced childhood in the U.S. in the early '80s, the odds are pretty good you celebrated a birthday, good report card, or other happy occasion at Showbiz Pizza Place. And, if you're like ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama-- Looking back, ShowBiz Pizza seems more like a mescaline-binge hallucination than a concept for a national restaurant chain: The creepy animatronic robot band. The primal-violent ...

Many of us have heard of the Rock-afire Explosion, the animatronic band which graced the stage of ShowBiz pizza from 1980 through 1990. For those not in the know, the band was created by the inventor ...

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Damon Breland, 43, stands aside in the doorway of Smitty’s Super Service Station, a former country convenience store that has been in his family for generations, and pulls open a heavy blue curtain.

Welcome to Flashback Friday, a feature that runs Fridays on Kansas.com and Dining with Denise. It’s designed to take diners back in time to revisit restaurants that they once loved but that now live ...