CEC Entertainment, LLC is a US family dining and entertainment company headquartered in Irving, Texas. It operates and franchises the Chuck E. Cheese, Peter Piper Pizza and Chuck's Arcade brands, combining pizza restaurants with arcades, trampoline zones, live-character shows and birthday-party venues. CEC and its franchisees run nearly 600 Chuck E. Cheese locations and over 120 Peter Piper Pizza venues across 45 US states and 18 countries, hosting roughly 45 million guest visits a year, and employ more than 17,000 people.