Because kids and gambling
This isn't really a Florida thing. It's the media pushing this. Unreal.
This isn't really a Florida thing. It's the media pushing this. Unreal.
The Miami Herald article states that the authorities throughout Florida are simply looking the other way at the seemingly illegal games inside Chuck E. Cheese, as well as popular restaurant-gaming chains such as Dave & Buster’s and Boomers. The law stipulates that for machines to be legal, they must be coin-operated (no dollar bills or swipe cards), they must involve some skill (not just be games of pure chance), and they cannot award cash or gift cards as prizes. The only prizes allowed are merchandise, and the maximum value of prizes is a mere 75¢. Some of the prizes for Chuck E. Cheese boardwalk-type games of chance are worth around $20, which would seem to make them illegal. Dave and Buster’s games also offer prizes worth well over 75¢, and the games aren’t operated by coins, but smart cards that customers swipe.