ShowBiz Pizza Place

ShowBiz Pizza Place
	Original logo first used in 1980
Company type	Public
Traded as	Nasdaq: SHBZ
Industry	Pizzeria; Restaurant; Family entertainment center; Franchising;
Founded	December 1979, in Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Founder	Robert L. Brock; Creative Engineering, Inc.;
Defunct	mid-late 1990s
Fate	Merged into Chuck E. Cheese
Successor	Chuck E. Cheese
Headquarters	Irving, Texas, U.S.
Area served	Contiguous United States; Hawaii; Mexico; Guatemala;
Products	Pizza
Owner	Brock Hotel Corporation (1980-1988);
Parent	ShowBiz Pizza Place, Inc. (1980-1985); ShowBiz Pizza Time, Inc. (1985-1994);

ShowBiz Pizza Place, or simply ShowBiz Pizza, was an American family entertainment center and pizza chain founded in 1980 by Robert L. Brock and Creative Engineering (CEI). It emerged after a separation between Brock and owners of the Chuck E. Cheese franchise, Pizza Time Theatre. ShowBiz Pizza restaurants entertained guests through a large selection of arcade games, coin-operated rides, and animatronic stage shows.

The two companies became competitors and found early success, partly due to the rise in popularity of arcade games during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The type of animatronics used in the ShowBiz Pizza chain distinguished it from its rival, which offered many of the same services. When Pizza Time Theatre declared bankruptcy in 1984, ShowBiz merged with the struggling franchise to settle a former court settlement mandate, forming ShowBiz Pizza Time. Following a severing of ties with CEI in 1990, ShowBiz Pizza locations were rebranded as Chuck E. Cheese locations, which took several years to complete.