Ten Dollar Pizza? Just kill me now!

[KymmyKyller]

Normally, I get awesome people when I answer the phone. Sometimes I get the flirty kind and others just happy go-lucky people. Lately though, lord help me I want to strangle someone!

Two days before Christmas:

Me- M
Scrooge Lady - SL

M: Thank you for choose -Pizza Hut- blah blah blah. Delivery or Carryout?
SL: Hmph. Delivery.
M: Takes the phone number, address, etc. Thank you SL, what can I get for you tonight?
SL: I want a MEDIUM, not LARGE, MEDIUM, pan pizza with everything.
M: Okay ma'am, I'll get you a medium supreme - it will be cheaper that way.
SL: Whatever.
M: Okay, ma'am, your total comes to xx.xx, will this be cash or credit?
SL: Cash.
M: Okay ma'am, your order will be there shortly.
SL: How long is delivery time again?
M: An hour to an hour and a half, ma'am.
SL: But I'm STARVING. I guess I can starve longer.
M: Okay, ma'am. You have a nice day!

I get off the phone and kind of look at it before going, "Scrooge." My manager cracks up. She goes and delivers it. Comes back quite irritable.

Mgr: You're right, she is a freaking Scrooge!


aaaand, THREE from today.

Lobotomy Man

M: Opening spiel, "Would you like to try our Amazing 10 dollar pizza deal?"
LM: Sure! I actually want two of them.
M: Will this be for delivery or carry-out?
LM: Delivery.
M: Address, etc. Thank you sir, what kind of pizza can I get for you?
LM: Well, since you made me go through all of that, why don't you tell me?
M: ....
LM: ....
M: ...
LM: No sense of humour huh?
M: Nope. What kind of pizza do you want?
LM: Blah blah blah. Make sure you have change for a hundred. Blahblah blah.
M: Alright, one moment.

I convverse with my manager and get the OK.

M: Okay sir, that's not a problem! Anything else I can get you?
LM: Well, with all THAT effort, I could use a lobotomy and some hookers and beer.
M: Well, sir, since I'm not a surgeon, I cannot do the former and as I'm not a hooker, I don't know of any. Sorry.
LM: Oh, NOW you get that sense of humor?
M: Yes sir. Will that complete your order?
LM: Sure, honey.


Marine and Drunken Friend:

M: Spiel. Delivery. Got it.
Mar: Blah blah blah.
DF: Tell her to deliver it! I WANNA FUCK YOOOU BABY
M: And would your friend like anything besides the pizza and two-liter?
Mar: It would seem he wants you.
M: Tell him I'm sorry but I'm not for sale, dear.
DF: Awh DAMNIT!
Mar: Are you married?
M: No sir, but I'm still not for sale. Just your friendly Pizza Hut CSR.
Mar: Aw, then that's all!
M: Okay sir, your total is 15.xx after delivery charge and tax.
Mar: thank you ma'am, have a nice night!
M: You too, sir. Tell your friend to drink some water! =)
DF: Come on, girl, come over!
Mar: Bye!


I WANT MY PIZZA RAWR!

Me - M
Pizza Monster - PM

And older lady calls and I do my spiel and shit and she goes and orders for CARRY-OUT. Now, carry-out is where you come in and PICK IT UP. Delivery sounds so much different. I tell her it'll be twenty minutes and not even five minutes after this, she calls.

M- Thanks for calling....
PM - WHERE'S MAH PIZZUH?! GARBLEGARBLE
M- Your name please?
PM - It's PM , my number is blahblah
M- Ma'am, you ordered for carry-out. It ha--
PM - I KNOW WHAT I ORDERED! CARRY OUT SO WHERE IS IT?!
M- Ma'am, you come in to pick the pizza up for carry-out...
PM - NO YOU DON'T! I want MAH pizzuh!!!!!
M- Do you want it delivered?
PM - YES DAMNIT
M- Okay, ma'am. It'll be there as soon as we can get it there. Thank you.
PM - MAH PIZZUH! GARBLEGARBLE -click-

...I swear to god, I want to strangle these people sometimes. Although, the marine and his friend were fun to talk to and only slightly annoying! Haha. -Falls over ded.-

[Calud]

That marine seemed fun.

I have a pizza story from a couple of days ago, it did not involve pizza but the driver.

I wasn't that hungry, but you have to order at least 10€ for delivery, so I ordered a salad (they're really good) and some ice cream.

The driver came about 20 minutes later and brought me my stuff. Only it was the wrong ice cream. He put it back in, turned around and wanted to get the correct one, but then asked me if I wanted my salad already. I said sure.

He wanted to grab it from his bag and in doing so he opened the lid of the salad and spread it all over my housefloor. Poor guy.

At least he doesn't have to go twice for ice cream and again for salad.

[Kristev]

You never treat the delivery guy badly, as my brother found out. He can wreak havok on your pizza toppings . . .

[TTAZ]

I ordered 2 of the $10 pizzas from the Hut last night for delivery today, and they were not correct, so when I called back to tell them, I heard exactly how *lovely* this promo has been for the poor folks who work there, especially here in Tucson with the U of A playing in the Holiday Bowl.

They gave me credit to use next time. Very nice of them to do actually, all things considered. Even the poor delivery driver looked like a spooked pony she was being run around so much. Sometimes I wonder if these promos are less about drumming up business and more about culling the herds of workers.

[Racket_Man]

at my Hut we are getting our asses beat left right up down sideways crossways inside out upside down ALL DAY LONG with the $10 pizza promo. YUP cheap stuff ALWAYS brings out the hungry masses and idiots. and I KNOW we are loosing money like all get out.

yes we are doing mondo business but what happens when it goes away????? well I suspect we go back to being bored to death and getting bitched at for high labor and food costs and low volumn

[fireheart]

The marine one made me laugh

And as for lobotomy man...... enough said.

[orcprincess]

When I first saw the commercial for the $10 pizzas, my first thought was not for the delicious pizza, it was more like stupid corporate, and those poor employees, save them!!!

[Becks]

Racket_Man, how late is your place open on Friday nights? Now I want Pizza Hut, but...I'll make do and wait until tomorrow. If it's open when I get out of work.

[Mr Hero]

Drunk friend from the second story: I'm afraid I don't have cash to pay for the pizza. Are there any other ways I can pay for it?

[tropicsgoddess]

I think the Marine's drunk friend didn't realize he wasn't calling Pizza Fuck! As for the I WAN MAH PIZZA !!!!11!!! SC...what a moron...carryout =/= delivery!

[wolfie]

M: Nope. What kind of pizza do you want?
LM: Blah blah blah. Make sure you have change for a hundred. Blahblah blah.
M: Alright, one moment.

I convverse with my manager and get the OK.

WTF is your manager thinking? Anyone saying "make sure you have change for a hundred" should at the very least get "I'm sorry, but corporate policy is that for security reasons our drivers are not permitted to carry more than $20 in change", with a better option being to refuse the order. From what I've heard, too often that's shorthand for "make sure the driver has plenty of cash for when I rob him".

[Racket_Man]

Racket_Man, how late is your place open on Friday nights? Now I want Pizza Hut, but...I'll make do and wait until tomorrow. If it's open when I get out of work.

at the end of a 11 1/2 hours shift tonight and it is 4:30am

My Hut is open til 1 am Sun - Thur/2am on Fri and Sat.

the other Huts in town are only open til like midnight (we are SPECIAL a flagship store so therefore we HAVE to stay open later for some odd reason)

I have soooooo much product in the cooler and freezer it is crammed/stuffed to the ceiling. our supply truck came this morning at 2:30am. HUGE ORDER and I had to put all that stuff away while playing Tetris in the freezer.

let's see how it goes after Sunday when the kiddies go back to school and business calms down after the holidays

LM: No sense of humour huh?
M: Nope. What kind of pizza do you want?
LM: Blah blah blah. Make sure you have change for a hundred. Blahblah blah.
M: Alright, one moment.

I convverse with my manager and get the OK.

WHAT THE FRACK WAS YOUR MANAGER THINKING??????? What kind of drugs is this fool on??????
Having a driver carry that much money is just inviting trouble/robbery/injury/death. the caller/thief KNOWS ahead of time your driver is carrying LOTS OF CASH on them.
Great job jerk Manager. Put your driver in mortal danger just to get that sale.

[Becks]

I'm totally going to see if Lizziebeff wants to head over to the other side of town tonight.

[mariamousie1]

"LM: No sense of humour huh?"

Nope, it doesn't seem to me like you have one. Now what would you like on your pizza?

[KymmyKyller]

Thank goodness we only stay open until 11 out here. Anything after that, it's a no-go.

Yeah, the change for a hundred is rather a bad idea although, when making a large order (like I did once) I had hoped that would be OK. My total had come out to like 60 bucks though.


Last night was hell night. We ran out of almost everything. We have NO large pan doughs until tomorrow, we don't have sausage, mushrooms, and other ingredients. When it was most busy, my manager was next to me, growling out, "That is the LAST time I let C do the inventory order!"

We had calls left and right complaining that crap wasn't to their liking.. one gem? "I ordered a pepperoni pizza! Why isn't there more pepperoni on it?"

Policy states that a medium pizza gets 36 peps. I offered the gentleman, when he was ordering, a Pepperoni Lover instead because we can't do double toppings for the 10 dollar deal. But he had refused. Not my bloody problem. ><


At the end of the night, I went home and got drunk for the New Year. Let today be less busy please, kthnx!