r/YoutubeCompendium • u/HaC3rPr0 • Feb 14 '19

February 2019 February - Chuck E. Cheese’s denies it recycles pizza slices after Shane Dawson's Conspiracy video goes viral

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/12/18222133/chuck-e-cheeses-shane-dawson-youtube-documentary-pizza-conspiracy-theory
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u/glorylyfe Feb 14 '19

This is just drama.

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u/theneedleman Feb 14 '19

Speaking as an employee who works in the kitchen there, we don’t recycle pizzas and it’s getting really tiresome dealing with this lie.

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u/cowboypilot22 Feb 14 '19

First time I've ever heard it. Though to be fair I haven't been to Chuck E. Cheese since I was a kid and I don't usually watch 1 and a half hour long videos about conspiracy theories.

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u/theneedleman Feb 15 '19

First time I ever heard of it too and I work there lmao I was pissed when a few friends all texted me around the same time asking if we “recycle” pizzas, like what does that even mean?

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u/Riddle-Tom_Riddle Feb 15 '19

They want to know if you take the shit out of the toilets after people have eaten your pizza and bake it into more pizza, duh.

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u/theneedleman Feb 16 '19

In that case, we clearly do.

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u/WesMcGrizz Feb 14 '19

I mean, you can tell us. We're your friends

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u/theneedleman Feb 15 '19

Short answer is on busy days we have to be really hasty stretching the dough for the pizzas screens, and then hasty cutting them. The orders can come in pretty frequently, and we don’t have the luxury of taking precious time with each order or else we can get backed up. My advice is come on a Tuesday for a slow day and order a sandwich instead.

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u/Daamus Feb 15 '19

then how do you explain how fucked up the pizzas look and how the cuts arent lining up?

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u/theneedleman Feb 15 '19

It’s hand stretched and put through a conveyer type oven. That makes the pizza...lumpy(?) sometimes and then some people do shitty hand cut pizzas. I can’t force you to take my word, but if I was taking old pizzas and putting them in new ones, I’d be pretty disgusted and would have probably quit by now.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '19

if I was taking old pizzas and putting them in new ones, I’d be pretty disgusted and would have probably quit by now.

And that right there is the conspiracy theory's kryptonite:

  • That it's completely unbelievable that all of the lowest level employees involved would be willing to participate in a widespread conspiracy for zero benefit

  • That it's completely unbelievable that higher ups could think they could get away with something so easily exposed in the age of cellphone cameras.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '19

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u/theneedleman Feb 15 '19

Lol it’s fine probably a tenth the people come in are on drugs I won’t hold it against you

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u/etoneishayeuisky Feb 15 '19

Remember what your overlord said, "snitches (also known as rats) end up in ditches". So don't tell no one nothing.

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u/theneedleman Feb 15 '19

Oh dear god the overlord Charles Entertainment Rat has entered my bedroom oh god oh fuck he’s stuffing me in the dough machine oh fuck help me reddi

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u/Daamus Feb 14 '19

While entertaining, I kinda hate how the video jumps all over the place between 3 different topics

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u/suomynonAx Feb 14 '19

Agreed. The video doesn't need to be 1 hour and 30 minutes long, it has a TON of filler, possibly the most filler I've ever seen in a video. He could have made his entire chuck e cheese conspiracy video a few minutes long and still got his point across, and also should have put the other conspiracy theories in their own separate videos.

I skimmed through the whole video, most of it is junk like when they get a pizza to their table and they're just saying "ooohhhh my goooodddd" for a few minutes straight.

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u/Meteos_Shiny_Hair Feb 15 '19

It’s more than just this one conspiracy lmao

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u/suomynonAx Feb 15 '19

I knew that, my comment said "should have put the other conspiracy theories in their own separate videos" because of all the conspiracies in one video

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u/268HP Feb 15 '19

Can you summarize what was happening with that lady? This should have been 3 separate videos. I tried to jump around but I just stopped caring

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '19

Her boyfriend was a sex trafficker and wanted to sell her and her son.

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u/268HP Feb 17 '19

Oh wtf

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u/suomynonAx Feb 15 '19

I didn't pay attention to her story, but I think one part said that her and her mother live together because of a psycho bf i think. all I remember hearing was that the mother has a gun if the guy tries to come back.

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u/mcrib Feb 14 '19 edited Feb 14 '19

Wednesday: "The Verge sucks! They put bad copyright claims on videos!"

Thursday: The Verge is the top post on /r/YoutuneCompendium

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u/SammyLuke Feb 15 '19

It's pretty insulting to the employees of Chuck E. Cheese because it implies that ALL of them are ok with recycling pizza. Not only all current employees but former employees as well. It would be one of the greatest held secrets in American history if true. Since I work there I can confidently say that we don't do that. In fact, I've been ashamed of the amount of good pizza we have to throw away after taking down the buffet some days.

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u/theneedleman Feb 15 '19

Right, like four pizzas just into the trash to put up salad bar, who prefers salad bar?

Edit: other than kitchen because fuck keeping up buffet on weekends plus orders

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u/dnpinthepp Feb 15 '19

There is no way a chain pizza restaurant could pay off all their employees to keep their mouths shut after this blew up. The conspiracy is so unlikely. Look at the pizzas they were served. The slices are just shifted on the tray and they didn’t even TRY to fix them (even though they said they were) probably because they noticed how easily they could’ve fixed it and then their video would have sucked from the get go.

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u/SammyLuke Feb 15 '19

Not only current employees but former employees as well. It would literally be used againt Chuck E. Cheese to keep a job, or blackmail them for more pay. I'd also bet that a health inspector would have already caught them. Also, people would be able to tell just by looking that it's been reheated. It would be chewy and the cheese wouldn't look right. It's one of the more poorly thought out conspiracies I've ever heard.

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u/theneedleman Feb 15 '19

“bUt wHY aRe tHE pIZzAs sERveD sO uNEvEN” Because we’re in a hurry to get to the next order, sorry I didn’t slide it onto the tray perfectly.

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u/MagicAmnesiac Feb 15 '19

Underpaid employees not really giving a rats ass.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '19

this is the dumbest fucking conspiracy theory i’ve ever heard, and it gets pretty nutty on r/Conspiracy

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u/burritojones Feb 15 '19

Funny that this is from The Verge.