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Cec Entertainment Inc – ‘10-Q’ for 7/2/17 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Friday, 8/4/17, at 5:31pm ET   ·   For:  7/2/17   ·   Accession #:  813920-17-24   ·   File #:  1-13687

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size

 8/04/17  Cec Entertainment Inc             10-Q        7/02/17   69:11M

Quarterly Report   —   Form 10-Q   —   Sect. 13 / 15(d) – SEA’34
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-Q        Quarterly Report                                    HTML    759K 
 2: EX-31.1     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     28K 
 3: EX-31.2     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     28K 
 4: EX-32.1     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     22K 
 5: EX-32.2     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     22K 
12: R1          Document and Entity Information                     HTML     42K 
13: R2          Consolidated Balance Sheets                         HTML    121K 
14: R3          Consolidated Statements of Earnings                 HTML     88K 
15: R4          Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income     HTML     34K 
16: R5          Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows               HTML    131K 
17: R6          Description of Business and Summary of Significant  HTML     30K 
                Accounting Policies                                              
18: R7          Property and Equipment                              HTML     26K 
19: R8          Goodwill and Intangible Assets                      HTML     44K 
20: R9          Accounts Payable (Notes)                            HTML     31K 
21: R10         Indebtedness and Interest Expense                   HTML     84K 
22: R11         Fair Value of Financial Instruments                 HTML     51K 
23: R12         Commitments and Contingencies                       HTML     37K 
24: R13         Income Taxes                                        HTML     45K 
25: R14         Stock-Based Compensation Arrangements               HTML     70K 
26: R15         Stockholders' Equity                                HTML     61K 
27: R16         Condensed Consolidating Schedules                   HTML    399K 
28: R17         Related Party Transactions (Notes)                  HTML     27K 
29: R18         Sale Leaseback (Notes)                              HTML     24K 
30: R19         Description of Business and Summary of Significant  HTML     60K 
                Accounting Policies (Policies)                                   
31: R20         Goodwill and Intangible Assets (Tables)             HTML     61K 
32: R21         Indebtedness and Interest Expense Indebtedness and  HTML     65K 
                Interest Expense (Tables)                                        
33: R22         Fair Value of Financial Instruments (Tables)        HTML     46K 
34: R23         Income Taxes Income Taxes (Tables)                  HTML     39K 
35: R24         Stock-Based Compensation Arrangements (Tables)      HTML    108K 
36: R25         Stockholders' Equity (Tables)                       HTML     55K 
37: R26         Condensed Consolidating Schedules (Tables)          HTML    868K 
38: R27         Related Party Transactions (Tables)                 HTML     27K 
39: R28         Description of Business and Summary of Significant  HTML     30K 
                Accounting Policies - Additional Information                     
                (Detail)                                                         
40: R29         Description of Business and Summary of Significant  HTML     25K 
                Accounting Policies - Goodwill and Other                         
                Intangible Assets (Details)                                      
41: R30         Acquisition of CEC Entertainment, Inc. - Narrative  HTML     22K 
                (Details)                                                        
42: R31         Acquisition of CEC Entertainment, Inc. - Pro Forma  HTML     23K 
                Financial Information (Details)                                  
43: R32         Property and Equipment - Schedule of Property and   HTML     24K 
                Equipment (Details)                                              
44: R33         Property and Equipment - Narrative (Details)        HTML     29K 
45: R34         Goodwill and Intangible Assets - Schedule of        HTML     30K 
                Goodwill (Details)                                               
46: R35         Goodwill and Intangible Assets - Narrative          HTML     38K 
                (Details)                                                        
47: R36         Goodwill and Intangible Assets - Schedule of        HTML     66K 
                Indefinite and Definite-lived Intangible Assets                  
                (Details)                                                        
48: R37         Goodwill and Intangible Assets - Schedule of        HTML     26K 
                Estimated Future Amortization Expense (Details)                  
49: R38         Accounts Payable (Details)                          HTML     28K 
50: R39         Indebtedness and Interest Expense - Schedule of     HTML     72K 
                Debt (Details)                                                   
51: R40         Indebtedness and Interest Expense - Narrative       HTML    134K 
                (Details)                                                        
52: R41         Indebtedness and Interest Expense - Schedule of     HTML     37K 
                Debt Obligations (Details)                                       
53: R42         Indebtedness and Interest Expense - Interest        HTML     61K 
                Expense (Details)                                                
54: R43         Fair Value of Financial Instruments (Details)       HTML     38K 
55: R44         Other Non-current Liabilities (Details)             HTML     32K 
56: R45         Commitments and Contingencies (Details)             HTML     26K 
57: R46         Income Taxes Taxes by Jurisdiction (Details)        HTML     27K 
58: R47         Income Taxes - Additional Information (Detail)      HTML     34K 
59: R48         Stock-Based Compensation Arrangements - Additional  HTML     69K 
                Information (Detail)                                             
60: R49         Stock-Based Compensation Arrangements Stock-Based   HTML     35K 
                Compensation Arrangements - Summary of Stock-Based               
                Compensation Expense and Associated Tax Benefit                  
                Recognized (Details)                                             
61: R50         Stockholders' Equity - Summary of Changes In        HTML     68K 
                Stockholders' Equity (Details)                                   
62: R51         Condensed Consolidating Schedules - Balance Sheet   HTML    172K 
                (Details)                                                        
63: R52         Condensed Consolidating Schedules - P&L (Details)   HTML    295K 
64: R53         Condensed Consolidating Schedules - Cash Flow       HTML    137K 
                (Details)                                                        
65: R54         Related Party Transactions (Details)                HTML     28K 
66: R55         Sale Leaseback (Details)                            HTML     26K 
68: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML    121K 
67: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX     85K 
 6: EX-101.INS  XBRL Instance -- cec-20170702                        XML   3.00M 
 8: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- cec-20170702_cal                XML    388K 
 9: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- cec-20170702_def                 XML   1.56M 
10: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- cec-20170702_lab                      XML   1.88M 
11: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- cec-20170702_pre               XML   1.66M 
 7: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- cec-20170702                          XSD    189K 
69: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0000813920-17-000024-xbrl      Zip    302K 


‘EX-101.DEF’   —   XBRL Definitions — cec-20170702_def


This Exhibit is an XBRL XML File.


                                                                                                                                                                                
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