does 2.0 make stores close sooner ? a deep dive

i've heard ppl say that chuck e cheese's locations close faster once they've been remodeled. but as far as i was aware, this was just anecdotal evidence, so i decided to do an investigation to see if this is true.

2.0 was first introduced in summer 2017. it was tested at the following stores: the north loop, military dr, and ingram drive san antonio (texas) locations, the olathe and overland park (kansas) locations, and the kansas city, missouri location. all of them are still open as of september 2024.

i made a spreadsheet of every cec location listed on their site that has closed (right click/long press on mobile + "open image in new tab" = full size):

apologies for the subpar formatting...

we can ignore the ones that closed before summer 2017 since they obviously didn't have 2.0. (phase 2 is not to be confused with 2.0)

i calculated how long it takes a cec to close after remodeling, by phase:
2 - 14.5 years
3 - 15.4 years
4 - 11.6 years
5 - 5.9 years
2.0 - 2.9 years

however, a lot of these locations were closed bc of the pandemic, so maybe they should be considered outliers. so here's my calculations excluding the locations that closed in 2020:
2 - 8 years
3 - 15.1 years
4 - 10.5 years
5 - 6.6 years
2.0 - 3.8 years

2.0 definitely has a shorter lifespan from the rest of the phases. but only a handful of 2.0 locations have closed so far bc it hasn't been around as long. most of them closed during the pandemic, and much less locations had 2.0 back then. so, until there's more data, we can't be 100% sure if 2.0 stores close earlier than others.