

The restaurant was originally intended as a starter for a chain of 'Pizza Theatres' around Australia, owned and operated by Allied & Leisure Industries, along with Paul Gregory under the supervision of A&L founder Malcolm Steinberg, who is the current owner of the Timezone arcade game franchise. Pizza Showtime closed down around 1984 and the robot characters were dismantled and sent to Sydney. Australian actor Jack Thompson provided the voice for the "Ringo Dingo" character. The animatronic robots cost "in excess of $100,000" and are claimed to have had "more movements than any Disney character". It featured ' space invaders' style game consoles built into the customer tables (operated with tokens ) and an animatronic stage show featuring a dog named 'Bert Newhound', a piano playing kangaroo known as 'Melton Pom' (next to joey), singing koalas with 'Lottie' being the lead, a wise cracking horse by the name of 'Ned Kelly' a dingo named 'Ringo Dingo', and a fiddle playing American bear who went unnamed. The restaurant was located in the now demolished Grand Theatre building located at 148 Murray Street (a site now occupied by Grand Theatre Lane, showcasing a small cafe, and multiple storefronts). Particularly like the sweet corn (yellow) arepas with pork and the plantains, yuca. It's got a fast casual atmosphere, good variety of options and delicious food. Usually order as delivery, but recently ate at the restaurant.

Cheese chain it was a sit down pizza restaurant complemented by arcade games, and animatronic characters. Always crave Pica Pica's arepas when visit San Francisco.

Pizza Showtime was a family restaurant and entertainment centre operating in Perth, Western Australia from 1980 to 1984. Defunct Australian family restaurant and entertainment center Pizza Showtime
