Robert L. Brock

Robert L. Brock (c. 1924[1] – June 7, 1998[2]) was an American businessman. He was born in Pawnee Rock, Kansas and graduated from Sterling High School and Kansas University. he started "Inn Operations" with a friend and sold it to Holiday Inns, Inc to manage "Topeka Inn Management". As chairman of TIM (later renamed Brock Hotel Corporation), the first and at the time largest franchisee of Holiday Inns, he founded Showbiz Pizza Place in 1980 in Topeka, Kansas after becoming a Chuck E. Cheese's franchisee.[3][4]

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References

  1. ↑ Birth year implied from 1942 graduation. See "Robert Brock". National Honor Society. Archived from the original on May 19, 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-19. Robert L. Brock graduated from Sterling High School in 1942.
  2. ↑ Lew Ferguson (June 9, 1998). "Longtime Democratic booster Brock dies of cancer 06/09/98". CJ Online National News. Topeka Capital-Journal. Retrieved 2014-12-30.
  3. ↑ Showbiz Pizza Place College materials
  4. ↑ CEC Entertainment, Inc. - Company History

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