Fazbear Entertainment

Fazbear Entertainment, also known as Fazbear Entertainment, LLC., is a company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. The company used to be owned by Henry Emily and William Afton before being sold to Gerald Fritz.

The company mostly makes Family Entertainment Centers (Mostly under the Freddy Fazbear's Pizza name), but they also make merchandise, arcade games, food, and animatronics, though it's mostly for it's own properties.

Before Fazbear Entertainment
In 1978, two business partners, Henry Emily and William Afton, opened a small restaurant named "Fredbear's Family Diner", in New Harmony, Utah. The concept for the restaurant came after the two had heard about Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theater, and they wanted a more advanced version of that concept. They came up with Springlock Suits (Now referred to as the V.0. animatronics), which were both mascot suits and animatronics. The place was a local hit, and became a local spot for Children's Parties. The restaurant became more known by the state, as word of mouth was spreading about the diner.

By 1982, both owners, now rich, needed to expand. They needed to be a threat to both Showbiz Pizza Place and Chuck E. Cheese's. This is when Henry Emily started to develop full animatronic characters, with free-roam and voice box technology, a new invention of Henrys.

Fazbear Entertainment is Founded
On March 10th, 1983, Fazbear Entertainment was created, and a week later, on March 18th, 1983, the worlds first Freddy Fazbear's Pizza location opened to the public in Hurricane, Utah. This introduced the V.1. animatronics, which had simple mobility, and the first version of Fazbear Entertainment's voice box technology. This was also when Afton Robotics, LLC,who made the failed Circus Baby's Pizza World franchise, and Fazbear Foods was formed. Fazbear Entertainment also made a franchise package to reach their goal of expansion and their selling points of mobile, talking animatronics, and the traditional restaurant feel.

Later in April, the "Fredbear and Friends" cartoon show was created for CBS Saturday Mornings. This also came with a short lived Fredbear's franchise package, but that was never used, as people liked the advanced Freddy's animatronics.

In August of that year, the original Fredbear's closed due to an incident with the Fredbear animatronic. The decision was made to sell both locations (one was being built in California for a franchisee), to the only franchisee for Fredbear's. Fredbear and Friends second season was also renamed to "Freddy and Friends-On Tour!" to not be associated with the Fredbear character, though the premise was the same. The decision was also made to reproduce the V.0. animatronics for Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, but Fredbear's purple attire was recolored to black, and was renamed to Golden Freddy.

In 1985, five children went missing at the original Freddy's location, making both Henry and William to leave the company, as bad things just kept happening.

The Safety Era
In 1987, it was announced that new animatronics, dubbed the "Toys" would be announced with even more advanced technology than before. The test location was to be located in Logan, Utah. During this time, Fazbear Entertainment bought out ripoff chain "The Pizza Playground." This location flopped, and the V.2.'s were scrapped, as the location was poorly made, and more incidents happened.

The Basics Era
In 1989, the company reused the old building for the first Freddy Fazbear's Pizza for a reboot, which included the brand new V.3. animatronics, which were a more advanced version of The Pizza Playground's animatronics. These animatronics were not allowed to walk around in the day due to the 1987 test location. Franchises kept closing due to the success of FEC's such as Chuck E. Cheese's and Discovery Zone, though they did not all close, as some stayed open. Though, by 1993, the company was up for sale, and bankrupt. This prompted them to close the original location one last time.

Restructuring Era
In 1994, the company was bought out by Utah business man Gerald Fritz, who had a vision for the company. He didn't just want Freddy Fazbear's to just be a pizza chain. He wanted it to be a well known brand across the world.

The first thing he did was to restructure the franchise package to be the more recognizable Fazbear Franchise Package in 1995. This was to make it easier for people to make locations, and for the brand to expand easier. This was successful, as the company quickly got it's first Canadian and Mexican stores.

In 2001, Afton Robotics, LLC was dissolved due to the closure of Circus Baby's Entertainment & Rental. This meant that franchisees could use a small selection of their products. This was also around the time when the flagship Salt Lake City location opened.

2005 was a controversial year for the company, as they introduced the V.4. (also known as Rockstar) animatronics. Since the V.3. versions of the characters were so iconic and unchanged for years, backlash happened.

In 2009, the first El Chip's Fiesta Buffet opened. This was to compete with other Mexican restaurants as a family friendly alternative.

In 2023, the company dissolved, yet was quickly saved by business man just known as "Mr. Burrows", who reformed the company as Fazbear Entertainment, LLC.

Franchises
This is a list of all franchises that Fazbear Entertainment owns.


 * El Chip
 * Mediocre Melodies
 * The Fazbear Band
 * Trash & the Gang

Current Restaurant Chains

 * Chica's Party World
 * El Chip's Fiesta Buffet
 * Freddy Fazbear's Pizza

Former Restaurant Chains

 * Circus Baby's Pizza World
 * Fredbear's Family Diner
 * The Pizza Playground

Other Properties

 * Freddy Fazland
 * Freddy's Fantasy Waterpark

Subsidiaries

 * Dumpster Diver Weekly
 * Fazbear Foods
 * Fazbear Games
 * Fazbear Toys
 * Fazcorp Cleaning
 * Rare Finds Auction
 * Smiles & Servos, Inc.
 * Stan's Budget Tech

Trivia

 * The company is one of the largest entertainment companies in the world
 * Almost everything created by Fazbear Entertainment has animatronic-based entertainment.