Zachary & Meredith Bortz's

Zachary & Meredith Bortz's is an upcoming American entertainment center chain founded by Regan Burns and Dakota Johnson, who voice Zachary, Grace and Lexia characters Zachary and Meredith Bortz respectively. Succeeding movie theater chain ZGL Theatres and headquartered in Signal Hill, California, the chain has its locations replace those of its predecessor, keeping the same food court and arcade and restroom sign concepts from before.
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==Details==
​Founded
November 2, 2024; in Signal Hill, California, U.S.
​Founders
Regan Burns
Dakota Johnson
Predecessor
ZGL Theatres
Headquarters
Signal Hill, California
==History==
On November 30, 2023, ZGL Theatres announced that all locations would be replaced by its successor, an entertainment center chain known as Zachary & Meredith Bortz's starting in 2025. Closed locations would be demolished, rebuilt and reimagined as Zachary & Meredith Bortz's starting in fall 2024. The chain also said that it would close all remaining locations starting in 2025 for them to also get demolished, rebuilt and reimagined into Zachary & Meredith Bortz's.
On April 11, 2024, it was announced that the first location in Signal Hill, California (where the chain would also be headquartered in) would start construction on May 3 on the former ZGL Theatre, which closed in December 2023 and was demolished two months later. That same day, it was announced that the location would open on November 2.
On July 12, 2024, the chain announced that they would introduce a new theme at the upcoming South Padre Island, Texas location: the summer theme, which would reference The Guy Game, a video game that was talked about in Memes of Truth with Zachary & Meredith Bortz: July 12, 2024. More locations with this theme would be announced later on.
On August 12, 2024, the chain announced that they would introduce three new themes at three upcoming locations:
*The Wallace, South Dakota location would introduce the western theme, which would reference Steve Williams' Wholesome Country Songs and the upcoming video game, Zachary & Meredith Bortz's Wholesome Country Rhythm Dance. More locations with this theme would be announced later on.
*The Beals, Maine location would introduce the Memes of Truth theme, which would reference Memes of Truth with Zachary & Meredith Bortz. More locations with this theme would be announced later on.
*The Washington, D.C. location would introduce the mixture theme, which is a mixture of all four themes. More locations with this theme would be announced later on.
==Location construction, references and layout==
Constructions on locations take four months to complete and they would open two months later.
Locations reference restroom areas from other places, usually Chuck E. Cheese and Dave & Buster's, and consist of a food court the same size as a shopping mall's food court on the left side of the building, a bowling alley its usual size in the center and an arcade the same size as a Dave & Buster's location on the right.
==Restroom layouts and appearances==
Restrooms are located either in the food court, bowling alley and arcade, in between the food court and west side of the bowling alley or in between the arcade and east side of the bowling alley depending on the location. Most locations have restrooms on both sides of the bowling alley.
The bowling alleys do not have unisex restrooms unless connected to the food court or arcade.
Locations either have the men's and women's restroom entryways as walk-ins or through doors. The unisex restrooms always have doors on them for privacy reasons.
The signs used in all locations with any theme depict Zachary and Meredith holding their fists out and facing the direction of the entryway with Zachary in an aggressive facial impression and Meredith in a serious impression, which are the signs reused from its predecessor. Signs of Zachary and Meredith doing the same poses as on the logo are different depending on the theme.
Zachary is always present on the men's restrooms, same with Meredith on the women's restrooms.
==Themes==
===Original theme===
The original theme references phase 3 of Chuck E. Cheese.
The logo on locations with this theme consists of Zachary and Meredith wearing yellow sweaters with green stripes, red hats with a yellow star and a green underside to the brim and gray gloves and doing Chuck E. Cheese's thumbs-up pose from 1995-2004 with Zachary being the backwards Chuck and Meredith being the forward one. The company name, "Restrooms", "Men" and "Women" wording signs are the same color as the "Chuck E. Cheese's" text used from 1987-2004 as well as the latter three wording signs at phase 3 Chuck E. Cheese's locations.
Restroom signs in locations with this theme depict Zachary and Meredith waving with their gray cross necklaces, green pants and orange shoes being shown.
Confetti posters of Zachary, Grace, Lexia, Madison and Meredith with their first names on them will be seen in at least one restroom area in every location with this theme. Zachary's confetti poster is always used as a men's restroom sign while everyone else's confetti poster is used as artwork on the wall facing the restrooms or as a women's restroom sign. Other signs of Grace, Lexia and Madison will be used in some locations.
===Summer theme===
The summer theme references The Guy Game, a video game that was talked about in Memes of Truth with Zachary & Meredith Bortz: July 12, 2024.
The logo on locations with this theme consists of Zachary wearing a white sweater and Meredith wearing a pink bikini top with purple seashells on it and both of them smiling. The company name, "Restrooms", "Men" and "Women" wording signs are cyan.
Restroom signs in locations with this theme show Zachary and Meredith's full bodies with Zachary's jeans and socks and Meredith's bikini bottom being shown. While Zachary is always by himself on the men's restroom sign, Meredith is by herself or with Alexandra on the women's restroom sign and the unisex restroom sign has Alexandra or Zachary and Meredith by themselves or together. Alexandra appears by herself on an additional women's restroom sign if a location has two women's restroom in an area and wears a black bikini whenever she appears on a restroom sign in locations with this theme.
===Western theme===
The western theme references Steve Williams' Wholesome Country Songs and the video game, Zachary & Meredith Bortz's Wholesome Country Rhythm Dance.
The logo on locations with this theme consists of Zachary wearing Steve Williams' regular cowboy hat and shirt and brown gloves and holding a microphone on a stand and Meredith wearing his pink and white hat and shirt and pink gloves and holding a microphone to her mouth with both of them singing. The company name, "Restrooms", "Men" and "Women" wording signs are pink.
Restroom signs in locations with this theme consist of posters featuring Zachary and Meredith's full bodies with their cowboy pants and boots being shown with them playing their guitars. Zachary's poster has the word "Cowboys" on it and Meredith's has the word "Cowgirls" on it, despite locations with this theme still using the regular "Men" and "Women" names.
===Memes of Truth theme===
The Memes of Truth theme references Memes of Truth with Zachary & Meredith Bortz.
The logo on locations with this theme consists of an aggressive Zachary wearing a brown sweater and a serious Meredith wearing a purple one. The company name, "Restrooms", "Men" and "Women" wording signs are red orange.
Restroom signs in locations with this theme consist of rectangle signs showing half of Zachary and Meredith's faces. The men's sign is orange, has an aggressive Zachary on the left side and showing the right half of his face and has a white right arrow under the white word "Men". The women's sign is red, has a serious Meredith on the right side and showing the left half of her face and has a white left arrow under the white word "Women".
===Mixture theme===
The mixture theme is a mixture of all four themes.
The logo on locations with this theme consists of Zachary and Meredith wearing their cowboy hats from the western theme, their sweaters from the Memes of Truth theme and their gloves from the original theme and doing Avenger Chuck E. Cheese's prototype thumbs-up pose from 2003-2004. The company name, "Restrooms", "Men" and "Women" wording signs are magenta.
Restroom signs in locations with this theme consist of posters featuring Zachary and Meredith's full bodies with Zachary's jeans and socks and Meredith's pink bikini bottom with purple seashells on it from the summer theme being shown with Zachary putting one hand on his cowboy hat with Meredith putting both hands on her hat. Zachary's poster has the word "Cowboys" on it and Meredith's has the word "Cowgirls" on it, despite locations with this theme still using the regular "Men" and "Women" names.
==Trivia==
*Like its predecessor, the chain is inspired by the Chuck E. Cheese and Helen Henny restroom signs and their individual posters in the Tux and Avenger Eras (Mr. Munch, Jasper T. Jowls or Pasqually would either appear alongside Chuck E. or replace him on the men's restroom in some locations) appearing on or outside the restroom entryways in a lot of Chuck E. Cheese's locations during the Phase 2-4 eras. The chain would also ditch the stick figures in favor of Zachary and Meredith as well as Grace, Lexia and Madison in the same concept. The chain also has inspiration from Chuck E. Cheese and Dave & Buster's as all three chains are named after someone, an example being Dave & Buster's named after late founders David O. Corriveau and James W. "Buster" Corley, have a video arcade and somewhere to eat and offer a fun time to people of all ages like any other entertainment center chain would.
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