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CEC ENTERTAINMENT, INC. NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTORS RESTRICTED STOCK PLAN

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Title: CEC ENTERTAINMENT, INC. NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTORS RESTRICTED STOCK PLAN
Governing Law: Kansas     Date: 8/7/2008
Industry: Restaurants     Sector: Services

CEC ENTERTAINMENT, INC. NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTORS RESTRICTED STOCK PLAN, Parties: cec entertainment inc
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Exhibit 10.2

CEC ENTERTAINMENT, INC.

NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTORS RESTRICTED STOCK PLAN

The CEC Entertainment, Inc. Non-Employee Directors Restricted Stock Plan (hereinafter called the “Plan” as amended, from time to time) was adopted by the Board of Directors of CEC Entertainment, Inc., a Kansas corporation (hereinafter called the “Company”), on March 28, 2005, became effective in 2005 as of the date the Plan was approved by the stockholders of the Company, and was amended by the Board of Directors of the Company on April 17, 2007 and became effective in 2007 as of the date the amendments to the Plan were approved by the stockholders of the Company (the “Amendment Effective Date”). Further amendments to the Plan were approved by the Board of Directors of the Company on April 15, 2008 and will be effective upon its approval by the stockholders of the Company.

ARTICLE 1

PURPOSE

The purpose of the Plan is to attract, retain and reward the services of the non-employee directors of the Company and to provide such persons with a proprietary interest in the Company through the granting of restricted stock that will further align their interests with the interests of the Company’s other stockholders. Upon the approval of the Plan by the stockholders of the Company, the Company intends to use the Plan as the primary means through which the Company issues equity to its non-employee directors for their service to the Company as directors and will discontinue issuing stock options to such directors pursuant to the Company’s Non-Employee Directors Stock Option Plan.

ARTICLE 2

DEFINITIONS

For the purpose of the Plan, unless the context requires otherwise, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:

2.1 “Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company.

2.2 “Change of Control” means any of the following: (i) any consolidation, merger or share exchange of the Company in which the Company is not the continuing or surviving corporation or pursuant to which shares of the Company’s Common Stock would be converted into cash, securities or other property, other than a consolidation, merger or share exchange of the Company in which the holders of the Company’s Common Stock immediately prior to such transaction have the same proportionate ownership of Common Stock of the surviving corporation immediately after such transaction; (ii) any sale, lease, exchange or other transfer (excluding transfer by way of pledge or hypothecation) in one transaction or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company; (iii) the stockholders of the Company approve any plan or proposal for the liquidation or dissolution of the Company; (iv) the cessation of control (by virtue of their not constituting a majority of directors) of the Board by the individuals (the “Continuing Directors”) who were members of the Board for the immediately preceding two (2) years (unless the election, or the nomination for election by the Company’s stockholders, of each new director was approved by a vote of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the directors then still in office who were directors at the beginning of such a period); (v) the acquisition of beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, as defined in Section 2.10) of an aggregate of 30% of the voting power of the Company’s outstanding voting securities by any person or group (as such term is used in Rule 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, as defined in Section 2.10) who beneficially owned less than 15% of the voting power of the Company’s outstanding voting securities on the date of this Plan, or the acquisition of

 

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beneficial ownership of an additional 15% of the voting power of the Company’s outstanding voting securities by any person or group who beneficially owned at least 15% of the voting power of the Company’s outstanding voting securities on the date of this Plan, provided , however , that notwithstanding the foregoing, an acquisition shall not constitute a Change of Control hereunder if the acquiror is (A) a trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of the Company and acting in such capacity, (B) a Subsidiary of the Company or a corporation owned, directly or indirectly, by the stockholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of voting securities of the Company or (C) any other person whose acquisition of shares of voting securities is approved in advance by a majority of the Continuing Directors; or (vi) in a Title 11 bankruptcy proceeding, the appointment of a trustee or the conversion of a case involving the Company to a case under Chapter 7.

2.3 “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

2.4 “Committee” means the committee designated to administer the Plan in accordance with Article 3 of this Plan.

2.5 “Common Stock” means the common stock of the Company, par value $ 0.10 per share, which the Company is currently authorized to issue or may in the future be authorized to issue.

2.6 “Date of Grant” means the effective date on which a Restricted Stock Award is made to an Eligible Director as set forth in the applicable Restricted Stock Agreement.

2.7 “Director” means a member of the Board.

2.8 “Eligible Director” means a Non-employee Director who was previously appointed or elected to the Board and who continues to serve in such capacity at the time for granting Restricted Stock Awards pursuant to Section 6.1.

2.9 “Employee” means a common law employee, including an employee who is also an Officer or Director, (as defined in accordance with the Regulations and Revenue Rulings then applicable under Section 3401(c) of the Code) of the Company or any Subsidiary. “Employee” does not include Non-employee Directors.

2.10 “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and any successor statute. Reference in the Plan to any section of the Exchange Act shall be deemed to include any amendments or successor provisions to such section and rules and regulations relating to such section.

2.11 “Fair Market Value” of a share of Common Stock means the average of the closing prices of the Common Stock as reported by the New York Stock Exchange for the five trading day period ending on and including the date of a Restricted Stock Award.

2.12 “Officer” means a person who is an “officer” of the Company or a Subsidiary within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act (whether or not the Company is subject to the requirements of the Exchange Act).

2.13 “Non-employee Director” means a member of the Board who is not an Employee.

2.14 “Removal” means removal of a Non-employee Director from the Board, with or without cause, in accordance with the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation, Bylaws or Kansas General Corporation Code.

2.15 “Restriction Period” means the period during which the Common Stock under a Restricted Stock Award is nontransferable and subject to “Forfeiture Restrictions” as defined in Section 6.2 of the Plan and set forth in any related Restricted Stock Agreement.

 

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2.16 “Restricted Stock” means shares of Common Stock issued to an Eligible Director pursuant to Section 6.1 of this Plan which are subject to restrictions or limitations set forth in this Plan and in any related Restricted Stock Agreement.

2.17 “Restricted Stock Agreement” means the written document evidencing the grant of a Restricted Stock Award executed by the Company, including any amendments thereto. Each Restricted Stock Agreement shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan and need not be executed by the Eligible Director receiving the Restricted Stock Award pursuant to the Restricted Stock Agreement.

2.18 “Restricted Stock Award” means an award granted under Section 6.1 of this Plan of shares of Common Stock issued to an Eligible Director.

2.19 “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any successor statute. Reference in the Plan to any section of the Securities Act shall be deemed to include any amendments or successor provisions to such section and any rules and regulations relating to such section.

2.20 “Subsidiary” means (i) any corporation in an unbroken chain of corporations beginning with the Company, if each of the corporations other than the last corporation in the unbroken chain owns stock possessing a majority of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock in one of the other corporations in the chain, (ii) any limited partnership, if the Company or any corporation described in item (i) above owns a majority of the general partnership interests and a majority of the limited partnership interests entitled to vote on the removal and replacement of the general partner, and (iii) any partnership or limited liability company, if the partners or members thereof are composed only of the Company, any corporation listed in item (i) above or any limited partnership listed in item (ii) above. “Subsidiaries” means more than one of any such corporations, limited partnerships, partnerships or limited liability companies.

2.21 “Termination of Service” occurs when an Eligible Director shall cease to serve as a Non-employee Director for any reason.

ARTICLE 3

ADMINISTRATION

The Plan shall be administered by the Compensation Committee of the Board unless and until such time as the Board appoints other members of the Board to serve as the Committee.

Subject to the express provisions of the Plan, the Committee shall have power and authorities which are exclusively ministerial in nature, including the authority to construe and interpret the Plan, to define the terms used in the Plan, to prescribe, amend, and rescind rules and regulations relating to the administration of the Plan and to make all other determinations necessary or advisable for the administration of the Plan. The determination of the Committee on all such matters referred to in the Plan shall be conclusive. No member of the Committee shall be liable for any action, failure to act, determination or interpretation made in good faith with respect to the Plan or any transaction under the Plan.

ARTICLE 4

ELIGIBILITY

Non-employee Directors, including Non-employee Directors who are members of the Committee, shall be eligible to participate in the Plan. Each Eligible Director shall, if required by the Company, enter into an agreement with the Company in such form as the Committee shall determine consistent with the provisions of the Plan for purposes of implementing the Plan or effecting its purposes. In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of the Plan and any such agreement, the provisions of the Plan shall govern.

 

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ARTICLE 5

SHARES SUBJECT TO THE PLAN

Subject to adjustment as provided herein, the maximum number of shares of Common Stock that may be issued pursuant to Restricted Stock Awards granted under the Plan is 165,000 shares. Shares of Common Stock previously subject to Restricted Stock Awards hereunder which are forfeited or cancelled or are withheld for payment of any applicable employment taxes and/or withholding obligations may be reissued pursuant to Restricted Stock Awards.

ARTICLE 6

GRANT OF RESTRICTED STOCK AWARD

6.1 Awards . Following the Amendment Effective Date, on every fifth Business Day in January each Eligible Director shall be granted a Restricted Stock Award for the number of shares of Common Stock having a Fair Market Value as of the Date of Grant equal to $100,000.00 (the “Annual Grant”). In addition, on the fifth Business Day following the Amendment Effective Date, each Eligible Director who received the 2007 Annual Grant shall be granted an additional Restricted Stock Award for the number of shares of Common Stock having a Fair Market Value as of the Date of Grant equal to $25,000.00. If a person first becomes an Eligible Director between the date of Annual Grants and after the Amendment Effective Date, such Eligible Director shall be granted a Restricted Stock Award for the number of shares of Common Stock having a Fair Market Value as of the date he or she becomes an Eligible Director equal to $100,000.00 (or, if the date on which the person first becomes an Eligible Director is after the 2007 Annual Grant but prior to the fifth Business Day following the Amendment Effective Date, $75,000.00 and, on the fifth Business Day following the Amendment Effective Date, $25,000.00) multiplied by a fraction the numerator of which is the number of days from the date such person becomes an Eligible Director until the date of the next Annual Grant and the denominator of which is 365. For the purposes of the Plan, the term “Business Day” shall mean a day on which the New York Stock Exchange is open for business and is conducting normal trading activity.

6.2 Forfeiture Restrictions . Shares of Common Stock that are the subject of a Restricted Stock Award shall be subject to restrictions on disposition by the Eligible Director and to an obligation of the Eligible Director to forfeit and surrender the shares to the Company under certain circumstances (the “Forfeiture Restrictions”). The Forfeiture Restrictions shall be determined by the Committee, in its sole discretion, and the Committee may provide that the Forfeiture Restrictions shall lapse on the passage of time or the occurrence of such other event or events determined to be appropriate by the Committee. The Forfeiture Restrictions applicable to a particula


 
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