Chuck E Cheese - it's trashtastic!

If you're a parent and you want to take your young'uns to a place where food and arcade entertainment mix pleasantly, may I suggest Dave and Buster's? (There are none in Massachusetts, but the closest one is at Providence Place in Rhode Island. Perhaps the element of gambling and not getting money back is a bad thing in Massachusetts?)

The food is a little more expensive, but at least you'll have the peace of mind not watching fistfights, intergang battles, fat white trash women arguing with skinny black gangbanger boyfriends (permascowls and cocked hats optional) while smacking their mixed-race spawn, and the mediocre pizza. Maybe the element of Fight Club and how the lower middle classes live is what draws this type of clientle; maybe other Chuck E Cheese franchises across the nation are more well behaved. I've never been to one.

However, as the night wears on, the clientele at D&B's becomes more adult, but not so much so that it requires a flak jacket and bail money.