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2209 WEST 29th * TOPEKA, KANSAS 66611 a (913) 266 -7021 <br />Craig C. Sweeney Asst. Director of Development octobex 271 1980 <br />Asst. Secretary { <br />Barnes Andre <br />City of Roseville <br />2660 Civic Center Dr. <br />Roseville, Minnesota 55112 <br />RE: Cis Ordinance F Strictio <br />Dear Mr. Andre; <br />I met recently with Mr. T hlgren, your city planner, to discuss <br />the possible construction and operation of one our ShowBiz Pizza Place <br />Restaurants .� the city of Roseville, We are discussing the site known <br />at Lot 1, Block 1, Rosedale center Second Edition, imtediately west of <br />the victoria Station Restaurant. The city currently has an ordinance <br />on its books which prohihits the operation of any amusement device by <br />persons under the age of 18 years. Show.Bi. z Pizza Place is a restaurant. <br />Our prhToxy attraction is that we offer three dimensional, robot -like <br />animted entertainment. use life-size robots perform on a stage in <br />front of our dining area and sing g and tell stories, The program is <br />geared primarily to families with young children. Additionally, we have <br />a "Sports Room" where we have a ire screen television and offer a much <br />quieter and more adult-oriented fort. Finally, we have a large "pia <br />where we provide for our patrons use 50 to 60 coin- -gated amusezent gams, <br />The large majority of these games are the newer electronic games. Only a <br />few of our dames are - "pinball" mchines . In addition to those games, we <br />will generally have between eight and ten, what we refer to as "childrens' <br />ri des " , of the type that rrnight be seen at a carnival - -that 'is small horses,, <br />or rrerry- --rounds , etc. <br />By way of demonstrating that we. are primarily a restaurant with coin - <br />operated Barnes as an accessory use, let me point out that the Barnes portion <br />of our restaurant occupies only approximately % of the total square footage <br />of our building. The Barnes area does not have a. separate entrance, The <br />games revenues rarely 30% of the total revenues of our restaurant. We are <br />confident that your ordinance was enacted in order to prevent the type of <br />establishment that encourages youngsters to "hang out . " This is our goal <br />also. Our corporate policy is to post a sign at the front door which states <br />that children under 18 who are not acccnpanies by their gents are not <br />allowed to eater our restaurants. This is enforced with a security guard <br />for the first several weeks of operation, and on busy rights after that, <br />