Enterrium

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Enterrium
Enterrium
Restaurant information
Established2015 (2015)
Owner(s) Namco USA (2015–2021)
Kiddleton (2021–present)
Head chefAaron Whitcomb [1]
Food typeContemporary American
Street address 2 Woodfield Mall
City Schaumburg (village)
State Illinois
Postal/ZIP Code60173
CountryUnited States
Seating capacity1,000 [2]
Reservations OpenTable
Website www.enterrium.info

Enterrium [3] (formerly known as Level 257 then Pac-Man Entertainment) is a contemporary American restaurant and video arcade located at Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, Illinois. [2] The restaurant and entertainment destination was originally inspired by Pac-Man and the name refers to the famous kill screen, which occurs when the player reaches the 256th level of the original Pac-Man game, meaning "the next level of dining and entertainment". [4] It was owned by Bandai Namco Entertainment from 2015 to 2021, which also owns all Pac-Man-related intellectual property. [5] The restaurant celebrated its soft opening on March 2, 2015, and its grand opening in April 2015. [6]

Contents

In May 2021, the location was sold to Kiddleton, a joint venture between GENDA and Round One Corporation, and was rebranded as the Enterrium. [7]

Style

It sits on 42,000 square feet which was previously used as a warehouse for a Sears department store. [8] In addition, the restaurant also features sixteen boutique bowling lanes, table tennis and social sports, as well as video and board games in the Lost & Found Game Lounge. [9] The interior decor is up-scale modern urban-chic in style and includes levels of references to the video game character Pac-Man. The menu also features references to well-known video game terms of the 1980s, such as "1-UP", chocolate "power pellets", and "Game Over". [10]

History

The restaurant was first conceived as a prototype in 2013, when Namco announced that the restaurant (codenamed Level 256 at the time) was being developed in partnership with a restaurateur in Kansas City, saying that were eyeing the Chicago area for possible locations. [11] The restaurant celebrated its soft opening on March 2, 2015. [12]

In May 2021, Pac-Man Entertainment was sold to Kiddleton, following Bandai Namco's decision to withdraw the amusement facility business in North America, citing the COVID-19 pandemic heavily impacting their business. [13] Pac-Man Entertainment would be rebranded as the Enterrium, stripping the location of its Pac-Man theme.

Events

The restaurant celebrated the 35th anniversary of Pac-Man on Friday, May 22, 2015. It featured a live performance of "Pac-Man Fever" by Jerry Buckner of Buckner & Garcia. [14]

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