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  • A slightly unreasonable demand

    I work in a well-known pizza place.

    And we have a semi-regular customer who, more often than not, kicks up a fuss.

    He's vegetarian, or has a religious reason not to eat meat, either way we try to accommodate his requests. Now we CAN'T guarantee that his pizzas are 100% meat-free but we obviously try our very best. He also asks that we change the cutting materials before we cut his pizza, which we do.

    This time I was on cut bench, and I cut the veggy veggy veg pizza first, with added olives. and then I cut his second pizza which isn't important. He also had a garlic bread, so I loaded his order up and shipped it out front.

    Sigh... The cashier says he ordered chips too. There's no chips in his receipt, s either he didn't order chips or the order-taker didn't put it on. He's yelling so we just give him his damn chips (after the 8mins it takes to make them)

    He calls up about half an hour later angry and irate. Training girl answered the phone and immediately go gets the manager, who's outside having a smoke.

    So customer claims there's no olives on his pizza. Now, i'm not saying he's lying but he's totally lying. The maker remembers putting olives on, and I remember cutting the pizza because I had to change the cutting materials.

    Well fairs fair, we offer to replace or refund the pizza if he brings it in and it doesn't have olives on it.

    No no, the customer has a better solution.

    He wants free pizza.

    Free pizza for a year

    That's a years worth of free pizza.

    What? Just, what? You hear about this kind of thing but you never think it'll happen to you

  • #2
    Yeah...no. One free pizza maybe...and that's pushing it pretty far. For a year? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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    • #3
      This is the reason that if I had my own shop, I would either have a very small well behaved customer base, or I would close down shortly.. maybe both.

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      • #4
        Quoth bhskittykatt View Post
        Yeah...no. One free pizza maybe...and that's pushing it pretty far. For a year? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
        Yeah, no free pizza. If this is an independant chain, they might get a free "get the f*** off my phone," but that's about it.

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        • #5
          Please tell me management stuck to their guns about him bringing in the supposedly olive lacking pizza before he got a free one . . .
          They say that God only gives us what we can handle. Apparently, God thinks I'm a bad ass.

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          • #6
            Quoth Panacea View Post
            Please tell me management stuck to their guns about him bringing in the supposedly olive lacking pizza before he got a free one . . .
            Of course you know he'd probably pick the olives off first.

            What was the manager's reaction when the customer wanted free pizza for a year? Raucous laughter, a "hell no!", other?
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            • #7
              The manager is Chinese, as is many of our staff, and the owner. He is no nonsense. The usual practice with a customer complaint in our store is:
              -customer complains
              -staff make sure complaint isn't some utter utter bullshit
              -offer replacement pizza, (in this case we want the pizza back, so we can check their claim)
              -offer immediate refund (again we want the pizza in return)
              -just give them a free pizza on their record for next time (we don't require them to come all the way to the store for this, it's just the easiest way to solve a complaint)

              We probably would've put a free pizza next time on his account but he was demanding ridiculous things, people's addresses etc...

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              • #8
                So I can assume no free pizza eh?

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                • #9
                  What's the Chinese word for cojones? Cause he has big ones.

                  Seriously, free pizza for a year because (he says) you forgot his olives? It's so obviously a scam even the most naive manager in the world would see right through it.

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                  • #10
                    But would they cave to it or deny the demand flat? That's the question.
                    Customers should always be served . . . to the nearest great white.

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                    • #11
                      Quoth Delislave View Post
                      He wants free pizza.

                      Free pizza for a year

                      That's a years worth of free pizza.
                      So give it to him, and make him sign a receipt saying he has received his free pizza for the year. When he demands another free pizza, tell him he has already received his free pizza for the year, and show him the receipt where he signed for it.
                      "I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."

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                      • #12
                        It's amazing how much compensation people think they are entitled to for whatever reason. If you receive something that's defective, and it's within the return policy, we'll replace it...it might take a while to get but it won't cost you anything, and if it's furniture you can keep the one you have till you get the new one. Why would we give you a 50% refund to keep the broken one?? I'm sorry if your overall experience has been bad for various reasons, but still...give me a break.
                        "I was only LOOKING, I didn't mean to enter my card's CVV and actually ORDER! REFUND ME RIGHT NOW!!"

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