Your kids have a greater chance getting sick at school!! Like how about lice or the friggen swine flu???? Really come on moms..relax it's a fun place that you may only visit once a year. Have fun with your kids and worry about other life threatening situations they could face besides a liitle germ that they need to be exposed to anyway to build a healthy immune system!!

Everyone needs to relax and worry about other life threatning situations you could be putting your kids in! This is just a place to eat and play. Same as the boardwalk,the mall,the bowling alley( do you think they clean their balls?).Do your job as a parent and wash hands and face before leaving Chuck E cheese. Let your kids be kids and don't shelter them! Besides the need to be exposed to germs in order to build a healthy ammune system!

I hope all your spoilt kids die.

Seriously, we are to believe that every single ball in that ball pit is taken out and washed daily, then the ball pit is cleaned out? Or the tubes, which have a weight limit, are climbed in and thoroughly washed down? Every single time I have taken my kids there they have gotten very sick. Needless to say we don't go anymore. However, they have never gotten sick from our playground which we visit way more often.

Of course there would be viruses and germs all over those buildings. Even if everything is cleaned nightly, a ton of kids cough on, sneeze on, drool on, lick, etc. almost every single surface in Chuck E. Cheese's daily. But, you'd most likely find those same viruses (or more) on a local playground. I can guarantee that those are cleaned less often than Chuck. E. Cheese's.

well obviously not huh lol. i mean they found viruses...

I used to work at CEC and I can tell you from personal experiences that there is not one single area of that store that is not cleaned and sanatized (out front, in back, kitchens, bathrooms, EVERYTHING) every single night and some of them are cleaned multiple times a day! I know the definition of thurough cleaning after working there!

This doesn't surprise me and in fact a bacterium is all around us, some good and some bad, there is no way to hide from it regardless of how clean you are. The key is to keep your body unsusceptible to it this why you should avoid taking antibiotics when not needed, eat well, keep stress low and receive a good night sleep. It is all about the immune system and keeping it strong and each time you come in contact with something you will fight it off and actually increase the power you have to ward off sickness

The human body is covered with billions of bacteria, many of them pathogens. I would have been amazed if there were not pathogenic bacteria is any place where people have been. Even higher levels of bacteria will be found if you try testing soil, or dust, or the inside of people's mouths. This "story" really lacks all sense of proportion.

Disgusting!!!! I am very reluctant to take my kids to these places. When I go to Chuck E Cheeses I always wondered why the doors and video games appeared to be so sticky. I try to carry disinfectant wipes with me all the time to make my kids wipe their hands down.

A study was done in the Atlanta metro area about a year ago by some medical tech students. They swabbed 250 shopping carts and cultured what they found. Of the 250, each one of the carts had bacteria/live viruses on the handle.Found was Staph (43 turned out to be MRSA), C-diffe, RSV,TB, Streph (176), e-coli and Samonella as well as others that cause serious illness.Some carts had more than ten different and distinct goodies waiting for ingestion by the unsuspecting. Finding these germs on places where little kids play does not suprise me. Yesterday when shopping, I observed a baby in the seat of a cart actually chewing on the handle. Her brother was wiping his nose on his sleeve. Healthy Healthy Happy.

What the!?!?!If i was a health inspector i would close these places down for good! I bet they bribe health inspectors to get around it. Thats just horrible.

Have we gone a little over board about infections and sicknesses? Remeber when you all played with dirt? Look at us now, we are healthy. If you look at the past ten years we have come up with so many allergies and people get sick with almost anything. Let me tell you i'm not ignorant I suffer from allergies too but I still go outside and enjoy nature. I can't change but I try to make my immune system stronger. O and btw since we are talking about germs as a car seat technician I could go on for hours about filthy carseats. AND YOU CANNOT WASH CARSEATS!!! DO NOT ATTEMPT, READ THE MANUAL BEFORE EVEN THNKING ABOUT IT!!! Also if you didn't know this already if you over do the disinfectant germs mutate, what are you going to do then. Science can't keep up with germs so stop making it worse. Live with it or learn to live with it, there is no other choice.

I bleach myself everyday so i dont gots no cott'n pikin GERMS on me. i thinks everyone should do this cuz i ain't never ever beed sick a garsh dern day a' my life!!!!

why take your kids to fast food places in the first place, most form of food borne diseases come from poorly cooked and prepared fast food joints. Tell me one time you have cooked a home cooked meal at home and have gotten sick. As for germs, i wash my hands when i get done seriously working or dealing with toxic or dangerous item. As for constantly washing all the time, it is actually bad for you to eliminate all those germs from your hands and arms that potentially deter harmful bacteria. If you cant teach your kid to not piss on a piece of playground equipment or to lick a greasy plastic piece of playground equipment then i think you need to be the blame for poorly disciplining your child