Bloomberg Law
Sept. 21, 2020, 8:08 PM UTC

‘Hell to Pay’ if 7 Billion Chuck E. Cheese Tickets Not Shredded

Leslie A. Pappas
Leslie A. Pappas
Staff Correspondent

Chuck E. Cheese’s bankrupt parent won court approval to pay $2.3 million to ticket suppliers to shred more than 7 billion paper prize tickets, a proceeding that came with a judge’s stiff warning that they should be properly destroyed.

“If I see a ticket leakage, I’m going to be very upset,” Judge Marvin Isgur of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas said Monday at a hearing with CEC Entertainment Inc. “If I find somebody diverted tickets before they destroyed them, there’s going to be hell to pay.”

The tickets, which would fill 65 cargo shipping containers, ...

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