San Jose, CA (2445 Fontaine Rd)

San Jose, CA (2445 Fontaine Rd) is a Chuck E. Cheese location that opened in December of 1981 with a Balcony Stage.

This store is known for being the largest in the United States. The building was formerly a Magic Village Toy Store before becoming a Pizza Time Theatre in 1981. It went through multiple remodels and phases before finally receiving the 2.0 remodel in 2018.

Stages
When the location opened, it housed a Balcony stage then later, Chuck E.’s House Facade. Lounge / Cabaret acts consisted of Dollie Dimples and the Beagles. The Beagles would be placed inside of a display window to entertain guests. Both of these acts would be removed before 1991.

Between 1993 and 1994, the Balcony stage was removed and the 2-Stage was Installed.

In 2001 Studio C was installed. Because of it being one of the last originals installed in a location, the Chuck E. Cheese animatronic received the 'Cool Chuck' outfit. As for the Cyberamic characters, Chuck E. Cheese Cyberamic was put on display at the front entrance of the store, while the other characters were sold off to different people. In the 2010s, the Interactive Console and Blue Screen camera were removed. As time passed, the condition of the show in general was beyond repair.

In December 2018 Fontaine received the Circles of Light then the Chuck E. Live Stage in May 2022.

Pizza Time Theatre
In 1974, the building opened as Magic Village Toy Store. It featured three giant toy soldiers enclosed in giant display windows. It gained a reputation for being such a large toy store. A local legend told is that a girl tragically once died from falling from the store's third floor. Locals said that the ghost of the girl haunts the building to this day. It went out of business sometime in the 1970s and briefly became a discotheque before reopening as a PTT in 1981.

The location had a vast kiddie area, being one of the few locations to feature Chuck E.'s Play N' Place and a large under the sea themed ball-pit area that featured Chuck E.' Cheese's Tinker Towers.

Training Center & Test Kitchen / CEC University
Shortly after opening, the store would be the exclusive host of the PTT Training Center & Test Kitchen program. This would be held on the third floor employee-only area for training employees from other locations. The test kitchen portion would allow Pizza Time Theatre to standardize their menu lineup for 1982, alongside being able to test and refine future menu releases. This program would end in 1984 with the merger of Showbiz Pizza Place and Pizza Time Theatre's companies. The center would later reopen at some point as CEC University for training General Managers. For unknown reasons the center would close again and would be used for storage.

Chuck E. Cheese's
Roughly around 1991 the location remodeled into Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza as part of the 1986 SPT Remodel Program. At this time, Fontaine also received customized multi colored booths and interior décor. In 1992 the location is featured in two pieces of official media from Showbiz Pizza Time's Entertainment Department. The first of which is a tape for employee's that summited footage of various live performances. Then as part as SPT filming in California, they visited the Fontaine location to feature in "Little Red Corvette".

In December 2000 the location became one of the last to receive a brand new remodel from the 1994 SPT Remodel Program. When Skytubes were introduced to this location they originally cut through the wall above the 2-Stage, giving a top-down view of the showroom for people inside, however In 2007 the Toddler Zone from Phase III and the Skytubes from Phase I are removed for unknown reasons. In May 2007 fan convention Cheese-Vention 4 is held at this location.

In December 2018, Fontaine had started their 2.0 remodel, being completed later in 2019. This would be the final United States location to receive a Circles of Light show.