Bullwinkle's Restaurant

Bullwinkle's Restaurant, also known as Family Fun Center and formerly Bullwinkle's Family Food n' Fun is a chain of family entertainment centers. Locations feature a sit-down restaurant, complemented by arcade games, go-karts, bumper boats, mini golf, laser tag, a ropes course, a zip line, and small rides for children. Games and activities are generally themed around the company's namesake, The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.

Description

Arcade
Bullwinkle's features a card swipe and/or token-operated amusement arcade section featuring over 100 popular video games and redemption games, such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, The Simpsons  Game, and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. More traditional arcade games, such as skeeball and basketball, are also available. Tickets can be redeemed for various prizes.

Restaurant

The restaurant section of Bullwinkle's has a log cabin feel, inspired by the Dudley Do-Right cartoon. The restaurant's main fare usually includes pizza and burgers, as well as wraps and salads. The animatronic show featured the likes of Bullwinkle, Rocky, Boris Badenov, Natasha Fatale, Dudley Do-Right, Underdog, Tooter Turtle, Hoppity Hooper, and at one location Tennessee Tuxedo and Chumley, but nowadays only Bullwinkle, Rocky, and Boris and Natasha are featured. The music and dialog for the animated musicals were recorded by Bill Broughton, featuring reprisals from Bill Scott,  June Foray, and others being impersonation voices.

Locations 
Family Fun Center & Bullwinkle's Restaurant currently operates 2 known locations in the United States: in Wilsonville, Oregon and Tukwila, Washington. A third location in Upland, California  re-opened on December 10, 2021 after being closed for 2 years.

Former locations
There were locations in Cary, North Carolina, Richmond, Virginia, and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, which appears to have closed sometime near 2008 and is currently El Cerro, a Mexican-focused restaurant. There were also other locations in California, which included Anaheim, San Diego, Santa Clara, El Cajon, Vista, Escondido, Fountain Valley.

For international locations, there were two locations in Canada and one location in Saudi Arabia.

Medford, New York had a Family Food 'n Fun location that opened in May 1999 featuring go-karts, bumper boats, a train ride around the park, and more. The location was purchased by Palace Entertainment in 2001 following an incident where a mini swing ride tipped over, injuring 9 people. It was renamed Boomers! Long Island shortly after. This location operated until September 29, 2019. The park has not been updated since and is now sitting abandoned, with most rides removed and relocated, although their Facebook page is still up.

References

Further reading
 "Bullwinkle's food, games chain debuts full-service variant" Nation's Restaurant News, May 29, 2000.
 "Bullwinkle's braces for growth as Straw Hat agreement nears" Nation's Restaurant News, Sept 24, 1984 by Richard Martin.

External links
Welcome to Family Fun Center and Bullwinkle's Restaurant!
International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
Restaurants in Oregon
Restaurants in Washington (state)
Economy of the Northwestern United States
Regional restaurant chains in the United States
Pizza chains of the United States
Animatronic attractions
Theme restaurants
Video arcades
Amusement parks in Oregon

Amusement parks in Washington (state)