Inventories:

Inventories consisted of the following at the dates presented:



	December 29, 2019		December 30, 2018
	(in thousands)
Food and beverage	$	5,302	$	5,383
Entertainment and merchandise	22,681		18,424
Inventories	$	27,983	$	23,807

Food and beverage inventories include food, beverage, paper products and other supplies needed for our food service operations and are procured from a single distributor. Entertainment and merchandise inventories consist primarily of novelty toy items, used as redemption prizes for certain games, sold directly to our guests or used as part of our birthday party packages. In addition, entertainment and merchandise inventories also consist of other supplies used in our entertainment operations.