Chuck E. Cheese's (fictional U.S. locations)/Tempe, AZ (Showbiz)

Store history
The store opened in 1982 as a Showbiz Pizza Place.

The store got Concept Unification in 1990.

The stage became notable in the late 1990s and early 2000s due to Steven Di Bello, a young set designer (and later technician upon graduating high school), designing numerous custom stages for the store and even programming a Sega Dreamcast port of CyberStar (which wouldn't last due to the Sega Dreamcast's failure), he left the location in 2001 to pursue a job at a franchise of rival chain Looney Bird's.

In 2004, the 3-stage was controversially replaced with a Studio C Cappa at the request of corporate, much to the chagrin of Di Bello and even the replacement technician, who reportedly "sobbed in tears" having to destroy the animatronics' cosmetics with a mallet. However, both Chuck E. and Pizzacam barely averted being destroyed as the store manager got hospitalized in a car accident before demolition could be completed. Both animatronics are now owned by Di Bello.