Fazbear Entertainment

**Fazbear Entertainment,** **Inc.** is an American family entertainment company founded in Hurricane, Utah by local entrepreneurs **William Afton** and **Henry Emily**. The company manages several entertainment establishments, each featuring food items, arcade games, rides and animatronic shows. The company takes its name from its primary mascot, **Freddy Fazbear**.

The first location opened under the **Fazbear Entertainment** brand was **Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria** in 1983. To this day, the company still maintains ownership over a select few **Freddy Fazbear** locations, but maintains most of its focus on the production of merchandise based off of its mascot characters.

## History

**Fazbear Entertainment** was founded in Hurricane, Utah in 1983 by two local men; **Henry Emily**, a man known for his technical affinity, and **William Afton**, a suave and clever businessman. Following the duo's success with **Fredbear's Family Diner**, their previous business venture, the two men created the corporation to manage their new venture, which would become **Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria**. With **Afton** acting as Chief Financial Officer and **Emily** as Chief Engineer, **Fazbear Entertainment** would soon be well renounced for it's iconic and advanced animatronic mascots.

In 1984, (in either September or October) **Edwin Murray**, a local inventor, signed a deal that resulted in his services being acquired by **Fazbear Entertainment**, who would provide empty animatronic costumes that **Murray** would build functional skeletal frames for.

By 1985, **Fazbear Entertainment** was in full business, but the newfound success would be quickly drawn to an alarming halt. On the evening of **June 26th**, a total of five children mysteriously vanished from a birthday party. Despite police investigation of the entire restaurant, the children were never found. Even after the pizzeria reopened, it soon shut down again in July after alleged health code violations, rumored to be related to a mysterious odor emanating from the animatronic mascots.

Determined to get the company back on it's feet, Fazbear Entertainment began to work towards opening it's next location. A set of new mascots (aptly dubbed "The Toys" for their plastic framework) were designed and created with input from Afton, and Murray would be responsible for getting the mascots assembled and ready. The shipment of suit parts was shipped in early 1986, with Murray beginning work on Toy Chica starting in March. Toy Foxy was also completed shortly after, but Toy Bonnie was finished by Fazbear Entertainment engineers in December due to Murray abandoning his factory. Sometime in 1986, Fazbear Entertainment began production of the Sodaroni beverage, which is still produced by Fazbear Entertainment.

In the Summer of 1987, The New and Improved Freddy Fazbear's Pizza was opened to the public, starring the new Toy animatronics. However, the location would be short lived due to a string of murders resulting in an investigation in November. To worsen matters, new Security Guard Jeremy Fitzgerald was allegedly attacked by one of the active animatronics on **November 13th**, resulting in a severe skull injury and brain damage. The Toys were promptly scrapped, and the pizzeria closed.

**Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria** was reopened sometime in 1988, now under the name **Freddy Fazbear's Pizza**, with upgraded versions of its original animatronics. The pizzeria would operate for a few years without issue, but ultimately closed in 1993 due to a lack of public interest causing profits to dwindle below the operating budget.