Employer · WARN Act history · Other Services
Dave & Buster's
286 workers across 3 WARN notices, primarily in WA - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.
- 286
- Workers cut
- 3
- WARN notices
- 3
- States
- 95
- Avg / notice
Dave & Buster's has 3 recorded WARN filings affecting 286 workers
According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, Dave & Buster's has 3 recorded filings covering 286 workers across 3 states, primarily WA, the 738th-largest recorded WARN footprint among 7,009 tracked employers. WARN notices cover qualifying reported events, so this record is not a complete count of the employer's workforce changes.
Dave & Buster's is a minor share of Other Services WARN activity — under 0.1% of the sector's 460,348 workers across 3,497 employers, ranking #288 in Other Services.
Dave & Buster's WARN workers by state
Sum of workers_affected on each filing row, grouped by the state agency that received the notice, not a corporate headcount by HQ state.
Dave & Buster's city concentration · lead-city
Named cities on WARN filing rows only (city blank on a filing is omitted). Shares are of the city-tagged worker total, not every notice in the record.
7 leads at 40.9% of named-city WARN workers across 3 cities (286 workers with a city on the filing).
Lead city 7 · 40.9% · 3 named cities · top-3 share 100%
DOL WARN employer filing desk
Employer DAVE-BUSTER- · Dave & Buster's 286 workers · 3 filings
NOTC-LIGHT · WORK-MID · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-OVER · STAT-MULTI · BOOK-MULTI · TYPE-LAYOFF
- NOTC-LIGHT 3 filings
- WORK-MID #738
- PHOTO-UNK No peer
- RUNWAY-OVER 61d
- STAT-MULTI 3 states
- BOOK-MULTI 3 agencies
- TYPE-LAYOFF 3 layoffs
Stamps derive from filed notice_date, effective_date, workers_affected, state agency source, and filing type in this dataset, not a prediction of future layoffs.
Largest Dave & Buster's WARN filings · notice runway
Top 3 rows by workers_affected from this employer's filed notices. Runway = calendar days from notice_date to effective_date when both are published and forward-dated.
- 7, MD · Layoff · Accommodation & Food Services 117 workers · filed Sep 9, 2020 · retroactive dates
- Auburn, WA · Layoff · Other Services 85 workers · filed Sep 8, 2020 · 61d runway
- Happy Valley, OR · Layoff · Other Services 84 workers · filed Sep 8, 2020 · 61d runway
Median forward runway across 3 dated filings: 61 days (1 under 60d · 2 at/above 60d · 1 same-day or retroactive).
Employer Profile
- Primary State
- WA
- Primary Industry
- Other Services
- First Notice
- Sep 8, 2020
- Latest Notice
- Sep 9, 2020
Not all layoffs appear in WARN data, see our methodology for the federal + state coverage thresholds. Latest filing: Sep 2020.
WARN Notice History
2020
7, MD · Accommodation & Food Services
Effective: Mar 16, 2020
117
workers
Filed Sep 9, 2020
Auburn, WA · Other Services
Effective: Nov 8, 2020
85
workers
Filed Sep 8, 2020
Happy Valley, OR · Other Services
Effective: Nov 8, 2020
84
workers
Filed Sep 8, 2020
Questions about this Dave & Buster's record
What is the largest Dave & Buster's WARN filing on record? ▼
The largest row is the mass layoff filed for 7, MD on Sep 9, 2020, covering 117 workers in Accommodation & Food Services.
Where were Dave & Buster's's WARN notices filed? ▼
The filings name 7, Auburn, and Happy Valley; together they form 3 mass-layoff filings sourced from Maryland DLLR and Washington ESD and Oregon WorkSource. States represented in this record: MD, OR, WA.
Where is Dave & Buster's's WARN footprint concentrated by city? ▼
7 leads at 40.9% of named-city WARN workers across 3 cities (286 workers with a city on the filing).
Does Dave & Buster's's filing history show a recurring pattern? ▼
All 3 filings fall in 2020, so the record describes a concentrated episode rather than a multi-year cadence.
How much advance notice appears in Dave & Buster's's record? ▼
The measurable notice runway clears the federal 60-day baseline; use the dated filing history to see which location and event produced it. Of 3 filings on record, 1 dated effective before the notice itself is excluded from that figure.
See also: WA WARN filings · Other Services industry WARNs · WARN Act guide
Source: State WARN Act layoff registries Dave & Buster's notice history aggregated from state workforce agency filings · September 2026 A WARN filing is a required notice, not a judgment of the employer's management or finances. Coverage follows states with structured public registries; this public-record summary is not legal advice, financial advice, or employment advice.
Every figure on PlainLayoffs is rendered directly from public WARN Act filings and state workforce agency records, no number is typed in by an editor. This employer's notice history is rendered directly from state WARN Act filings. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2026. A WARN filing is a legally required notice, not a judgment of a company's management or financial health; rankings here reflect filed notice volume only.