EnTouch Controls, an energy management company, announced that Chuck E. Cheese's has  chosen EnTouch 360° Energy Management Service as its official energy management solution for corporate stores in North America.

EnTouch 360° provides fully managed 24-hour support for more than 300 corporate owned Chuck E. Cheese's locations. The company evaluates energy data in real-time and converts that data into insights designed to drive actionable decisions.

The company estimates a conservative savings of 15 percent on their energy costs with the technology. It predicts Chuck E. Cheese's system-wide energy reduction will result in more than 17,000 megawatts per year and the elimination of more than 15,000 tons of CO2.

EnTouch 360° helps to prioritize energy management issues, remotely triages potential problems and can also dispatch a customer's technician to resolve an HVAC, refrigeration or lighting problem. With EnTouch 360°, the Chuck E Cheese's facility management team moves from reacting to maintenance issues to one that is "proactive" in focusing on the important day-to-day issues of managing the restaurant.

"We enlisted EnTouch in 2013 to begin tackling our mounting energy usage and the results were significant – we were able to cut our energy bills by 15 percent," said Les Lehner, senior vice president of real estate at Chuck E. Cheese's parent company CEC Entertainment, in a statement. "EnTouch 360° empowered our facility teams to effectively manage, analyze and control our energy usage and we're eager to see the results of this latest effort as we systematically roll out EnTouch 360° across our remaining North American footprint."

Anh Tuan