Pizza delivery drivers, what did a person do to end up on the "No Delivery" list?
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I got blacklisted by Dominos because they kept giving me under cooked pizzas (to the point that the dough was literally raw, uncooked, cheese unmelted, toppings cold) and I complained every time. Funny enough, my local Pizza Hut (which is the BEST Pizza Hut I've ever gone to) has me on the priority list because I always leave tips over 50%. I've literally never had a complaint about that Pizza Hut. They even give me those little cheese and pepper shakers for free.
I had the opposite issue with my local Pizza Hut. I used to go there all the time to get an order of breadsticks and would chat with the guy who always worked the register. Then one time I got home and noticed that the marinara sauce tasted and smelled spoiled. I called to explain and emphasized that I wasn't looking for a refund because I was still able to eat the breadsticks without the sauce and just wanted to let them know so no one got sick from it. The person said they'd put their manager on the phone so I had to go through the whole thing again. Then THAT person said they would get their manager and I was like then who the hell was I talking to? Once I again I went through the whole thing and that third person got really nasty with me, insisting that it had been made fresh that morning and there's no way it was spoiled. I was like dude I don't care when it was made, I'm just letting you know so no one gets sicks from eating it and y'all don't have a bigger issue on your hands. Dude then hung up on me so I filed an online complaint with corporate making sure to tell them what an ass the supposed manager was and again emphasizing that I didn't want a refund, I just didn't want people to get freaking sick.
Well they sent me a voucher for double what I paid. I figured eff it and used it to get a pizza from there. I got it as a pickup and when I got home I found that the whole underside was still raw. The edge crust was cooked and the top warm but everything else was completely raw. I didn't even bother calling them since I knew what would happen, filed a complaint with corporate but didn't leave my personal info since again I didn't want a damn refund, and never went back. They closed down two months later. I have a feeling I wasn't the only person complaining about their suddenly rubbish service.
No one out pizzas' the hut.
Im pretty sure thats the dominoes style
@@MisanthropicOcellus actually it isn't. i suspect that particular location had a bad oven and... less-than-attentive workers. the Domino's i worked at never had that issue, and whenever we had a pizza that came out like that, we always checked that the oven was actually working correctly by putting some wings or something through, by itself, and temperature-test it. cold food = dead oven, and we called in for repairs. my location always had 3 ovens available, but we only ever used 2 at a time unless we had particularly large, or numerous, orders to deal with.
Lucky but I don’t eat pizza though
It turns out I'm on the no delivery list for almost every restaurant in my area. I just bought the house last year and the old owner was a real jerk. Really racist, and even on the offender registry. I always have to explain this but no one ever believes it until I show up.
that sucks man
I’m sorry for laughing, but that is pretty hilarious
@@Nopadopebro bought the ghosts too
@CocoGames_0lmao facts 😂😂😭
That's sad!
for the memphis story, as someone who was born there it absolutely was valid for them to avoid that whole section. memphis can be really dangerous in centralized areas, like you’re not in danger EVERYWHERE but your safety immediately decreases when you go to a certain street, neighborhood, park, etc. it’s very sad because there’s a lot keeping it that way that’s out of people’s hands
Fellow Memphian here and I highly agree!
Also mempnian but have since left, love my 901 but not a good place to raise kids if it's not Germantown or Mississippi lol
not a delivery driver but a driver is banned from our store cos she treats everyone horribly and she just so happened to mess with the wrong employee (me), for context I work for McDonalds.
So she used to come round our drive-thru and scream down the mic as soon as she approached (despite being told not to multiple times) and her latte is always "cold" despite it just coming out of the machine (we always put it under just before she got to the window). so I take her order and payment and start taking another order and as I'm taking the other order, she clicks her fingers at me (a big no-no) so I finish taking the other order and turn back to her and she says "I want a hot chocolate." No manners or anything, so as I'm taking her payment she goes to me "You don't like me do you?" and I just told her no and she goes "Well I don't like your face" (This is a middle aged woman) and I just shrug and as she drives away she calls me a twat. She drove down to the next window and told the manager what happened (she told the truth about what happened so that surprised me) and the manager just said "Well why did you ask her if you didn't want the answer", she got her stuff and left but now she's not welcome.
Something I've noticed about the older generations is they assume that if the mug/cup of drink is cold, that the drink inside must be cold, even IF you just did it in front of them. It's very strange, but I have seen great success in making the mug/cup sit on top of the machine (or even in boiling water in the case of a mug) stop any cold complaints.
You should've cranked up the machine so the Latte is boiling hot. No excuses about it being cold after you get third degrees burn from drinking it. (Don't do that, this is a crime, but it would be a good way to stop them from ever doing it again i it was a legal act.)
The domestic abuse one…we had a local woman with a pack of kids by her abusive husband get tired of that sh-t one night. He got really drunk that night and demanded food to be cooked for him. So she fried up a can of wet cat food and put it on a sandwich-which he was so drunk that he ate it. Then she went and grabbed her son’s baseball bat and beat the supreme sh-t out of him. She broke his jaw, his forearm etc etc. He was so messed up that she called an ambulance. Because of the obvious signs of abuse all over her and her previous hospitalizations due to his abuse-the police didn’t even arrest her. They were just like “well fair enough. Maybe now he won’t do this anymore”. Dude was so afraid and angry at her that he left HER, after he had beat her a bunch of time for trying to leave him. One good beating for himself and he was just done 😂. I guess he didn’t like it when the shoe was on the other foot and it was HIM abused 😂
At least the police understood what was going on in a hard situation.
Similar in our area and neighbour villages. Just a few:
- guy got chased down the mane street by an angry mom with a showel after trying to r her daughter. Than went to church and told everyone what she had to do and he dared to force her to chase him. Guy was out casted.
- brothers beat up a husband after beating their sister the wife who just gave birth and was on bed rest
- kids destroying a property after some snobby neighbours tryed to force HOA
- police got beat up by an entire village after some morron called them who got beaten up by the victim's family who he tried to r
And many more shinanegans. Police don't do a thing because:
A, they get beaten up
B, it's the village they live in and risk out casting
I kinda wish it'd been that way for my case, but my mom's a mouse.. My father stopped being physically abusive when I was like 5, but we only properly severed ties three years ago, when I was 15. My mother was 17 when she first started dealing with my dad, who is ten years older. (He'd been dating a woman his own age at the time, from what my mom told me, and it wasn't until she was 19-20 that they started dating. She'd been staying with him as a roommate for school due to having run away from home, I think. Her family wasn't abusive, just very strict and religious. Jewish, though)
My father is a narc, and I was his scapegoat for the longest time. We had a childrens' lawyer when I was like 12, but I'd been too blinded by the love-bombing to realise how bad he was abusing and gaslighting us. That is until my last summer there. The final straw was how he reacted when I came out as *questioning* my gender. Not even a certainty, just "maybe I'm trans." His immediate response was stereotypes and sexism from the 80s. Things like "this is why women shouldn't have rights" and "you can't be trans if you like men, you have to be straight if you're trans" part after the comma is paraphrased for context, but yeah.
To be clear, we're on the winning end of the legal battle. He hasn't contacted me since christmas about a year ago, when I refused to visit him. My brother though wasn't as smart. Moved in with him about two years ago (will be in august, it's currently june) and is living in a youth shelter because it got so bad. Granted, my brother is a chronic liar, manipulator, and a glutton, and my dad doesn't like how my brother would evade his schooling, or eat more than they could afford, but he was definitely still abusive. He's currently under investigation, and my brother will probably be living with us again once his school year's over. (He's two years, one month, and ten days younger than me, and I was 18 as of the first week of april.)
But yeah.. If my mom had had the courage (unlikely) as a 5'6 woman versus a 6'2 ex-soldier, maybe it would have ended faster.
Abusers suck, and it's great when the cops let the victim off easy for finally putting their foot down, even if in a violent manner. One can only handle so much.
@@antares8476 I'm glad to be canadian, while the HOA only exists in the US.
@@fullmoonshadow6967 *hugs* I'm glad things are a bit better for you now.
Just remember, people:
The old addage for "The customer is always right", in full is as follows; "The customer is always right in matters of taste and preference".
Just like how "Blood is thicker than water" refers to "Blood of the covenant, thicker than the water of the womb".
Reductive omitting of words from phrases drastically changing their meaning in ways the original phrase is contradictory to, is far from new. And it is sadly... Rampant.
This, so much this. It’s infuriating.
In addition, "The customer is always right in matters of taste and preference" originates from a Pimp being overheard giving instruction to his hoes.
No, the original phrase is the original phrase. The extra words were added later. Look it up.
wait, so blood of the covenant, thicker than the water of the womb implies _friends over family_ ?
@@SpaghettiDog86. It was originally "blood is thicker than water". Someone retconned it after that.
We had one area that was crossed out on our map. I never really thought about it but a month or so before I left I asked why. My manager said that a driver got robbed and his car stolen when delivering there. They found the car two days later ON FIRE in a neighboring state. They were moving under the assumption that it was used for trafficking since they set it on fire. They re-listed the area as I left and I heard one of our delivery drivers got robbed. She ended up taking a leave for a week and the day she got back she got robbed AGAIN in the same area by the same people! I was shocked they kept the area listed after the first time.
I work pizza but im lucky as our store in the rich part of town so not too many shady areas. But we do deal with many a-hole customers who you can tell are not use to being told 'no'.
My best pizza story is: One time when I and a few other people were at a friend's place, he phoned up the pizza place to make an order. The call went like this:
Friend: "Hello, I'm phoning from [address], can -"
Pizza guy: "Ah, hello, the usual? It'll be there in 30 minutes."
Friend: "Uh, yes please, thanks, bye!"
We all cracked up! This guy ordered the same two pizzas, sides and dips so frequently they knew his exact order by heart. Didn't even need his name, despite there being a dozen residents at this address.
OK, maybe it's not the most amazing story when I recount it, but it was absolutely hilarious at the time.
That's the best kind of story. So wholesome and silly. That guy is definitely the highlight of someone's day.
My uncle used to order from this one pizza place so much as a kid, he would just call them and say his name, then hang up, and he would get the pizza.
Brooo, the woman probably takes 15 minutes to make like 4 sandwiches, she can't be talking
She must be thinking there's like 50 people making sandwiches in there.
@@gabrielc7861 I think some people are actually that deluded, though.
15 minutes for 200 sandwiches equates to a sandwich every 4 and a half seconds. Even with two workers, that would be 9 seconds per sandwich.
She was clearly off her rocker.
Jealous of the shop that banned the naked lady, at my last pizza delivery job I had to deliver to the local nudist resort. There’s something particularly disturbing about a man wearing a T-shirt, baseball cap, tennis shoes, but no pants or underwear.
General PSA: be nice to retail workers generally. I've worked plenty and to spare of retail jobs, and we're just doing our best. One (admittedly unrelated) pet peeve that still guides my actions today: pay attention to whether check-out lanes have their light on before you jump in line. At the very least, just ask. The number of times that I have been stuck frantically trying to work through a backlog of customers for 10-20 minutes, either getting hangry from missing my break or trying desperately to get out the door...
No good person who has had a job running a register ever pulls crap like this. EVERYONE should have to work a cash register and work in customer service in order to know how to treat people. Now that I have moved up in my career and no longer am in customer service, I always try to make the person running the register have a better day by being a nice customer because I know how much better it made me feel.
Makes me wonder if I'm the subject matter of anyone's stories... I genuinely don't pay for my pizza orders anymore until I see the pie in person. Why, you ask? Because Pizza Hut is ass, and they had made a habit of placing a hold on my card and then canceling my order, so I couldn't even go in person to carry out another one (times were tight, I wasn't exactly in as good of a spot as I usually am). So I'd make it a point to pull exactly enough cash for my usual order and a 20% tip, order COD, and then have to deal with a handful of phone calls from understandably sketched out delivery drivers, most of whom would end up having a good laugh at their employer's expense when I explained why I was demanding "proof of pie" before letting Pizza Hut see a single red cent
Door dash driver here. Had a guy pull a knife on me over a soft drink
Are you alright?!
That’s something I’ve noticed. DoorDash, Uber, grubhub, a lot of people are either incredibly rude and entitled, or else violent criminals, and I don’t think that there’s a blacklist in those apps. ☹️
@@jenna2720 yea, I’m alright. I called the cops and as far as I know he didn’t even get arrested. And you’re very right, I’ve had some sketch interactions on all those apps. Bet your bottom dollar every order I got my Glock on my hip just in case now
@@jenna2720the driver can report the user and get their account banned
Not really my story, but a friend of mine works at a local pizza shop that has a policy of, if you're a sex offender, they don't sell or deliver pizza to you. Legitimately they look every address up to see if it's on the registered sex offenders list and if it is, you ain't getting your pizza
Sadly had a similar incident here in Japan I say sadly because it was a case of false accusation but because of the justice system he was put on the offenders list, he was already on the suicide watch/check list at my work but he went to order at his favourite pizza place who does the same as your friends but we refused sadly this pushed him over the edge because he couldn't order anymore at his favourite long memory place and ended up hanging himself the next day.
I don't blame the pizza place etc it's a policy they've always had because it's run by a mainly female family crew but it was just unfortunate enough to push this guy over the edge since then they check around with the story's instead of just looking at names I work in cyber crime so alot of people are falsely accused for money these days especially tourists obviously the real offenders exist and the falsely accused are a small minority in comparison just goes to check out someone's story first! But it was strange to hear somewhere else does the same haha
You shouldn't even be allowed in public other than a public prison in those cases, imagine thinking it's okay to let animals like that stay free, they clearly don't have the self control expected from any human being.
Cracking up at Vonnegut being blacklisted.
"Why mess with people who handles your food AND knows where you live?"
Good question! I would love to know that answer too.
I'd say my husband and I are the opposite of black listed from Pizza Hut. We order for lunch quite often during the week (we both work from home) and there's one driver who usually works deliveries during the week. They are almost always out of the drink I order, so the driver calls me and we're at the point where he says who it is and I ask if "it's the usual" and he responds with "yes. the usual?" I also have been known to give this particular driver an additional tip in cash. Love it.
Story 14 is eye opening! I really want to just hug OP and comfort them! We think of pizza drivers as just being teenagers making an extra buck, but in reality THIS is the worst case scenario for this job and it cannot be overlooked!
Edit: job, not hobby! Hobbies are fun
Er... which one was that? ^^;
Hobby? It's a job. I really hope most people don't think of pizza drivers as "just being teenagers trying to make an extra buck." It's a livelihood, and a dangerous one at that.
@@catbatrat1760The one with the murder
I definitely paid in quarters sometimes as a kid, but I would make dollar stacks so they could easily see how much I was giving them. It's the only decent thing to do if you have to pay in change.
Good for you! When working a register, a bunch of east european construction workers (I'm in Germany, and this is common. There's lots that work here for a period of time to earn money in construction and go back to family periodically.). They had a mixture of a few small bills, but mostl lots of coins, luckily mostly 20s, some 10s and also a few 50s. I'd only deal with the copper coins if I had to. Their purchase was rather large, it looked like they were buying lunch for the entire team.
They came up to me beforehand because they were aware of how this might be trick, so I told them while I had the right to refuse this form of payment, I'd accept it if they had time to wait for a bit and they'd arrange it beforehand in these stacks as I showed them. So I showed them the stacks, and even that they just had to match them in height on a surface to get the same amount, and so they got stacking coins (they got the hang quickly, it's easy after all. I think the height matching of identical denominations is what most people don't realise they can do. Of course as a cashier you should still look out people don't try to sneak in other denominations, but these guys were good to their word.). It was kind of endearing to see these rough and dirty construction guys getting busy arranging small coin stacks by the side of my cash station, like I did when I was a kid and counting my wealth I had collected in my piggy bank.😅
And wouldn't you know, what most of my colleagues would have refused outright took a lot less time with this preparation. I'd rather have this happen (preferrably with them telling me beforehand, not dropping it right in the transaction. Though luckily most modern registers have a function to put a transaction in the background while you do others) than someone trying to pay a small purchase with a huge bill, as that is not only inconvenient, but also a possible attempt to spread fake money. Oh, and that one lady who was grumpy I would give out a wide range of coins for her small purchase she bought with her 50 euros, and few small bills and two euro coins I had right in the morning. I told her this is *all* the change I had I currently had, and while I could give it to her, I then would not have any other change for any following customers. She was one of the first customers, and she nearly ran my change dry as is.
I once tipped a pizza guy $100, I did it because I had the money at the time, knew it would make his day if I did that, and figured he would remember that for a long time.
Blessings
"On good terms" means they weren't fired or being let go for bad reasons, that they could potentially have their job back if they returned.
I delivered pizzas briefly. I had a couple calls that I used my gut feeling on amd didn't deliver. Was too sketched out. Best delivery I ever had was my 2nd day on the job. A 5 pizza order for a party. I totally forgot their drinks but they were cool about it. I brought the drinks back and they still tipped me $50. Super nice people.
Why would the DM be _happy_ they kept a difficult customer? And what are their margins that they can afford to throw away an entire pizza each time? They're essentially giving this lady half off, only she doesn't even eat one of them, and their only solace is at least they don't use full cheese on it? If it were me, one day I'd deliver her a pizza one day with _extra_ sauce. Not just a little bit extra, either. Not just a lot extra, not just enough to make you sick, I mean so much that when you open that pizza box it looks like the elevator scene from the Shining. Then, when she inevitably complains, I'd say, "Well... you always reject the first one, and accept the second, no matter what. So we've got a bet going down at the shop, see the next one's gonna have twice as much sauce!"
Then I'd put her on the black list.
This was a Strange Delivery story from my 18yo son when he delivered for PH. He was taking a pizza order out to an area of town where it was dead end dirt roads. He rolled up to the house and it was dark, no lights on in the house or porch? He walks down and to the garage side of the house and sees a huge quonset hutwith the door open and lights on. He walked to the door and said, "hello? Pizza....." a guy walks up and stops him at the door. The guy paid cash and said " you didn't see anything " my son said Nope Nothing
He tipped $20 and slowly closed the door . My son said it was a $15 pizza, he got a $20 tip and saw the LARGEST INDOOR POT FARM EVER. We live in a state where weed is still illegal but we are surrounded by 100% legal weed for everyone? Makes no sense.
I just really loved something about the kid getting reprimanded for "trying to rob" the delivery driver and them getting to know that their work is appreciated in a round about way.
Delivery drivers usually got love on the military base I was stationed at. Most military guys just have a credit card and don’t pull out cash too often and with online orders there was an add tip option so we didn’t have to use cash. Either way the common sentiment was over 20% to make it worth it for the drivers who jammed their whole shifts to us idiots. This one driver, however, decided to openly ask every person for a tip in person. We’d explain we tip online and he’d get mad and go “ok well that doesn’t tip me, where’s my tip?” Needless to say he got the door slammed in his face quite often and we’d hear the verbal arguments down the hallway. Even if the tip is spread throughout the store, this pizza chain had the 3rd highest performing store in the United States in terms of cash flow so they got plenty in online tips, spread throughout the store or not. Needless to say that guy had issues with just about everyone.
Our old apt complex was on the x list. 1 driver had gotten robbed for the pizza, his car and his pants.....
His pants? Why his pants? You know what, I don't wanna know.
I love the dude from story 51 he’s just a vibe. Something weirdly wholesome of having a list that’s basically just the shops favourite customers. Bet he gets extra toppings.
I worked at Dominoes in Australia when I was in high school 2012-2014 and a guy got added to our no delivery list bc he verbally abused me on the phone, threatened to come down and shoot the place up. Actually came to our store and screamed and yelled at me (a then 15/16 year old girl) and threw his perfectly good pizza and chocolate lava cake at me…
Still no idea why he went off the deep end.
As a 17 year old woman, I don't understand some men. My cousin, male, has a crappy boss (he doesn't always pay up and they work in diesel mechanics) and he agrees some people shouldn't have power nor should have access to money if they just treat younger people or women like this.
We had a "blacklist", but not a pizza place. A hotel. In a college city, I worked as the night receptionist, so I, of course, saw the craziest shit. We had a TYPED, two-page long list of people that weren't allowed to stay there and reasons why. In my free time on my first few night shifts there after training, I would read through this list and all the insane reasons why they were blacklisted. Keep in mind that in order to book here, you had to give us an ID with your name, home address, and picture on it, which was scanned into our system. I added three people to the list myself in the two years I worked there. A few I remember: 1> Client didn't want the neighbors calling the police on him again, so he booked a room to beat his wife in. 2> Client brought six badgers into a no-pet room (which was, hilariously, all the rooms at this location). 3> Client made a make-shift firepit in his room and burned a giant pile of weed in it to hotbox. The entire hotel and block smelled like weed for days. 4> Client pooped in front of the door right before checking out so the cleaning ladies would step in it. 5> Client has attempted to commit suicide in our hotel rooms multiple times; his family requested we do not service him anymore. 6> Client booked the entire hotel and paid a huge deposit for an entire weekend. Turns out, it was the weekend client's ex-girlfriend was getting married, and this hotel was the closest to the venue. 7> Client checked out and left her four very young children in the room for staff to find with no food, no clothes, and dirty diapers. 8> Nice client "bought" cookies for the entire staff as a thank you for letting him book an entire week in advance. Cookies were full of weed, the entire staff was high including the owner of the hotel chain.
Gives you weird dreams when the youtube algorithm puts stuff like this on while you're asleep.
😅🤣
Amazon drivers, yall got all my love and respect, too.
Who tf puts mayo on a pizza?
I ordered a pizza for the last time from a big chain store. They delivered the wrong pizza. I sent it back, and they replaced it, but the correct pizza tasted like dish soap. Don't screw good tippers. I normally tip 30-50%, depending on delivery distance.
Delivery driver here! Only guy that I know of getting banded was becuz of me! He would show up to his door (always paid cash) in nothing but very dirty underwear and would take ages to give u the money all while trying to get you to come inside. He would only do this to female drivers.
I also love the racist getting banned for being a bully to black employees. The food industry is already dangerous and you may constantly having to feel extreme heat for hours. Nobody needs to also deal with a bully customer too.
I have a story similar to two of these. I delivered a pizza to a guy's house once, and he paid me in all change. I gave him his pizza, he closed the door, and I counted out all the change right there on his doorstep. He was about three dollars short. I knocked on his door again to get the rest, and he answered with a shotgun in hand. I didn't say anything; I just put the change in my pocket and left. He got on the "do not deliver" list after that, and it wasn't long before his whole apartment complex was blacked out on the map.
My god if you know your getting a delivery and you know your dogs are violent lock them in a room until you get your order jeez.
29:02 bro got lucky
Friendly reminder tips are for extra service.
Going above and beyond.
Example, remembering five people's orders, being ten minutes early.
Handling a complex request ect.
It's not rude to pay for your friggin meal.
If the staff don't make minimum wage that's on them and the industry. Not you.
I'm Canadian, tip culture where I live isn't a thing.
When I order "herb" I tip my driver because she always shows up within the hour.
When the expected wait time is 4-6.
She goes out of her way to get my plant to me quick, I give her five bucks extra.
If you are paying tips BEFORE services rendered, like with door dash for example. That's not a tip that's a bid.
You are bidding on the job.
And yes, I ran pizza as a 17 year old. I got my miles covered and that's it. No wages. I kept my tips.
I never blamed the customer. I blamed myself for being a friggin moron.
Got a REAL paying job at Pepsi next year.
I get ripped by my employer for extra hard work. It's called a bonus. That's how it's supposed to work.
This channel is one of my favorites
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I've been delivering pizza for about 4 years and I guess I've been pretty lucky. I've never seen someone end up on a No Delivery list, but there's one lady that ended up on it right before I started working at my current job and I was there the last time she called right after I started. She was a repeat check bouncer.
15:30 I am so using "thin crust pizza, double anchovies, olives, extra cheese" as a code word. I don't know for what, but I so wanna use it for something!
It’s code for “I have gas and diarrhea for some reason” I think
The manager in story #39 may have been a douche, but I highly doubt he was a *racist* douche as was being insinuated. When he was explaining that they wouldn't deliver to the area due to it being a "black area", he very clearly meant that it was "blackout/blacklist area" as was depicted on the delivery map. He simply made a very poor choice in verbiage... Context is often key and tactful phrasing is everything people, especially within the service industry and customer interactions.
Just wanted to chime in that the Irish have historically been a very discriminated against group. I guess that’s a shock to our narrator?
Well this is nice, I worked at a pizza place once for a little bit in my younger adult life and can safely say that we've never had, while I was working there anyway, a person who did this. However I would say the real problem was the pizza place itself.
I worked at a place called Dominos and it was a hell. The manager was a moron, every person there had some kind of drama, and the place was so unkept I vowed to never order from there again. They kept the dough when it was out of the fridge room next to the sink everyone washed their hands in and dishes/tools got cleaned, and yes there was a bit of splashing and I know for a fact people were eating soap in their pizza as a result. Worst still the place ended up having it's Pizza oven thing (IDK what it's called it's like a pizza oven with a conveyor-belt) Repoed once because the thing wasn't paid for, right in the middle of a lunch rush at that but that happened after I left.
Sometimes the worst people in fast food are the people you work for
I went to FSU for college, and would hang out with friends off campus. They lived a few blocks from FAMU, a predominantly black college, and no pizza place in town would deliver to us cause they said they were tired of getting robbed on and around FAMU campus. This was mid/late 90’s.
Story 12 could make for some insane dad lore 💀
Delivered pizzas back in the 80s when we didn’t have to worry about the crime like today, plus it was a college town, so sketchy areas were pretty much just poor college kids. My only concern then was prank calls to unoccupied apts. this was my thought one night near Halloween (yes, it was a dark & stormy) as I climbed the rickety wooden stairs to the third floor of the back of an old house converted to apts, with no porch light ( people used to turn on the outside light at night when expecting a delivery), so I was slightly suspicious when I saw no outside light, certain I was being pranked when I climbed all the way up and saw no inside lights either…I could see no doorbell so I knocked loudly, and promptly heard a loud thump inside. Now I’m really on alert…a little while goes by and finally the door slowly opens and I see 2 couples, only the light of a TV inside. one guy is on the floor with a shocked look his face, the person answering the door is cracking up, and answers my quizzical looks by telling me they were watching a horror flick, were so engrossed in the movie they forgot they’d ordered a pizza, and I knocked at THE critical moment in the movie when the tension was the highest, giving them all a good scare.😁
At Taco Bell, we put a dude on the no serve list because he would order 8 quesadillas and called a few hours, not minutes, HOURS later and say "you only gave me seven!"
I had only every heard from thr dude twice before my general manager put him on the no serve list for both our store, but the other stores he managed
As an ex-employee of Pizza Hut I can tell you that the tips can really put a driver’s pay above the manager. Especially if it’s the weekend.
I have to wonder if the first guy was someone who was just pissing away his money because he knew he didnt have much time left, and he didn't want his family of vultures salivating for inheritance
the exclusionary hiring is likely still illegal in the US. Like you need to make reasonable accommodation.
These kinda delivery stories make me wonder when pizza delivery drones will kick in. on the one hand, lack of jobs. on the other, a lack of a lot of danger and disrespect.. hm..
I am surprised my brother is not on a blacklist. He regularly orders food, and falls asleep. And then gets a refund for the order.
Please remind your brother that he is an a-hole for doing this, and a torn sphincter for doing it more than once.
I work at a dominoes, not as a driver but as an insider, but I heard this story. One time this group of boys (probably siblings) came in to pick up a pizza, and rather than paying for it, they grabbed the pizzas and ran. Only a day or two later, they placed a delivery. I believe it was under a different name but it was under thier real address. One of our drivers found out after arriving at the destination, finding the same car that was in the lot the day they tried to steal from us, and seeing one of the other younger boys who were involved. (She saw the event unfold the day it happened). Needless to say, she turned around without dropping off thier pizza and we no longer deliver to them anymore.
Imagine being a new employee, and seeing that post-it that says "'The Blackout Zone; will now be referred to as the 'No Delivery Zone'"...hooo boy, they're in for an interesting story hahaha
for the tipping list one, i thought it was extra funny bc the tip takker prolly thought it was because of her 🤣
My cousin used to deliver fro Pizza Hut. He once made a delivery to a sketchy part of town and when he got back in his car he could see two men sneaking up behind him. He immediately *unlocked* the doors, waiting for the men to get in. What they didn't know was there was an angry, protective Pittie in the backseat, Manda Panda. Suddenly the car was full of screaming, blood flying everywhere, and the sound of one young man laughing himself stupid, watching the two thugs trip over each other trying to get away. Took us an hour to get the blood off the backseats the next day.
24:42 this moment was pure gold, i can just imagine it
28:59 bro. . . lucky bastard >:(
In New Zealand we had a pizza delivery guy murdered and robbed. Street was blacklisted and someone who lived on it had the cheek to go to the NEWS and complain about how SHE never robbed, threatened or assaulted anyone, so why should SHE be punished? It had a history. After that, ALL places required you to order and pay online for deliverys. So the drivers have no cash on them.
When your workplace gets mentioned by name in the video 😂 While you're listening at work.
Delivery driver here for Pizza Hut. We have a regular who is infamous at the restaurant for opening the door a crack and then just holding out her hand for the pizza when she hasn't paid. When you ask about the money she'll sigh then hand it over, usually less than what's needed and you need to clarify that it's not enough. She'll then bring the rest. One time she actually was going to give me 30 for a 20 something order... And asked for the change BEFORE giving me the 30. I didn't do that, obviously but the fact that she even tried that is something else. Ah and she neeeever tips. Always says "Next time" with a smirk if asked.
Ahh, yeah! The Pizza Man with the pizza plan! Friggin LOVE you guys.
Had a customer banned because he was screaming about us shutting down delivery while there was a f3 tornado on the ground in the immediate vicinity of the store.
I love long lists of stories like this.
I feel bad for the folks who will live in Story 2's dorm in the future. In like 5 years, I imagine this conversation could happen:
"Hey, why can't we get Bob's Pizza to our dorm?"
"Because some seniors five years ago kept sending in fake orders."
20:26 Story 25) This is like being on tumblr. On most websites, if you're being cancelled, you know exactly what the accusations have been made, no matter how fake they are. On tumblr, people will send you anonymous hate, block you after years of friendship, tell their friends to block and harass you, but no one will ever tell you why. If you ever find someone who isn't as good a friend to them as they thought, you eventually find out it was something like that post you reblogged 6 years ago is from the friend of someone who become a TERF later in life... or something ridiculous like that. Like, okay... guilt by association is cool and all, but if you just _tell_ the person, they can delete the post. What you're doing is... punishment via invisible rules or something... I don't even know what's going on anymore.
I used to deliver and we definitely had a blacklist. One was just one specific trailer in a huge trailer park because the occupants usually came to the door half or fully naked and always demanded the driver bring the food inside the house which was covered with animal feces and was disgusting. Another one was banned because he only asked for female drivers and would try to make them come inside to put the food on the table, and he was usually cracked out.
I actually somehow made the "deliver no matter what" list with our local pizza hut. Like I just tip whatever cash I happen to have on me. It's usually somewhere between 4$ and 20$.
I had a guy try to rob me, huge man, me little man. I managed to get away. We stopped his daily deliveries.
what is it with mean rotties my rottie is a sweet boy he only barks when someone comes to the door then gose about his way.
Yeah story 2, manager dude needs to be fired from his job.
False accusing racism needs to be punishable.
Also.
Allow pizza drivers 2nd amendment rights, with a partner.
Let it be sorted from there.
I absolutely DESPISE the tip culture. Due to my roommate I don't have an operational kitchen and sometimes I can't afford to tip
Honestly, I'm glad to say that I'm pretty much the opposite of a no-delivery list. Usually order my stuff way in advance (though sadly not always) and everytime I give the delivery dude 5 €, regardless of wether he's late or whatever. Like, some days just are busy and then they can't make it, so, whatever, I still got my 5 € bill ready and give it to them before taking the pizza. One driver from a previous pizza place (which sadly no longer exists due do covid messing up their business) told me that they once actually had a bit of a discussion about which one of them would get to deliver to my place XD
I would deliver pizza and was just been told i couldnt go into peoples home which i understand. Im female so its understandable but alot of the people who would order are older. I was following the rules when the lady fell and i went into her home and called 911 and stayed with her till the ambulance showed up. She told me to give myself a tip but didnt feel like it was right so left the change there for her. I believe her brother came by the store later and thanked me for staying with her but i still feel guilty for making her get up to get her pizza.
Wow, that's crazy about Dominos! It sounds like you had some seriously bad luck with undercooked pizzas. Good thing your local Pizza Hut is treating you right! It's awesome they appreciate your tips and take care of you like that. Plus, those free cheese and pepper shakers are a nice touch. Here's to never having a bad pizza night again!
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This one was a good lesson on being careful what you call blacklisted areas, Bet that was fun for the manager.
I like leaving snacks and chilled water on hot days for my delivery guys 😂😂 I feel like delivering packages and food to other people is one of the most undervalued jobs
I never delivered but did work at a pizza place that also had a bar, and takeout beer was sold at the same counter as pizza (where I worked). I would try to keep track of who was a jerk and who was just odd to avoid sending drivers to places that sucked. The oddballs were always loved by both me taking the calls and the drivers going out. Nobody was blacklisted for delivery while I was there, but plenty of people got kicked from the bar. Drunks are mostly hilarious and occasionally dangerous, while alcoholics are either the worst or best people you see (it’s not the same thing, as most people who drank heavily and frequently were not drunk on arrival or when leaving, but bought so much, so frequently, it was always clear they had a problem).
Also, the Irish are well-loved in the US, but in the UK there’s probably still a lot of bad sentiments since the Irish have barely been freed of British oppression for a relatively short time, and still haven’t been able to unify due to British rule, with the Irish language and culture almost entirely extinguished because of oppression.
11:55 Say the neighborhood. If it's a shithole, it helps actual good people avoid it.
pizza hut in australia here. not a blacklist story but still never delivered to the customer again anyway about 5 years ago i did a delivery to an old lady and i tried calling them as i needed to get in to her complex and ended up not able to deliver it as i was waiting around for 30mins while the store tried getting in contact. only for the store to call the police for a welfare check and turns out she passed before getting her pizza...
i abhor delivery drivers, especially the ones who emphasize tips more than they do being paid a friggin fair wage....not to mention the average delivery person is a jackass, not to mention the restaurants....
9:07 Why blacklist that? That's what we do with Papa John's because their delivery area only covers like half of my town. A place that's in between and in public, give instructions on who to look for, be waiting for the driver in the parking lot, then take the pizza and stuff home. Simple, doesn't seem like a bad deal for anyone.
Who is the family of the man with dementia???? They don’t even care enough to help him until a pizza joint forced their hand?!
I once delivered a sandwich to a dude that had a big ass French mastiff. When he opened the door, that dog knocked me flat on my ass. I saved the sammich by raising both my arms and just laid there until the dude came outside, getting absolutely smothered by kisses by the giant dog for 5 mins. Best delivery ever.
My mum got blacklisted from a chinese restaurant but they was going downhill anyways
In the netherlands, it's rare for people to tip delivery guys.
12:20 Bro got the Galak wtf
I don't know too many details as my dad was the one ordering the pizza. the story: my favorite pizza place was the hungry howies near me as they had the CHEESIEST and best pizza ever. one day my dad called up the place as he didn't want to cook and apparently he was told "sorry, your house is too far away to deliver" i guess god had picked up the hungry howies and threw it farther away. i was pretty sad because i had to eat shitty dominoes pizza since then.
I have worked in customer service on multiple occasions. I never begrudge kids paying in change. It is annoying, but a lot of kids can't work (or don't) and they get money how they get it; scrounging in the couch cushions or whatever. When grown adults do it, it p*sses me off. And it's always a Boomer hunting through a container of change with a huge line behind her. ALWAYS.
Don't know how or why, but somehow Dominos customers throughout the country, got my number. So when I tell you my phone was literally always ringing from a Dominos driver in literally any state that has a Dominos, I was very upset. Went on for about a month until I called Dominos corporate and told them about what was going on. Needless to say, I don't order Dominos anymore and changed my phone number.
I have to say that us pretty accurate for davenport iowa I'm at the age of 17 and worked at hyvee on rockingham we constantly had people stealing and constant gun violence in this town which was halarious.
Story 18:
Not a "Strange Strange Woman", more like a "Sad Pathetic Excuse of a Woman".
That's a bit rough complaining as the delivery service just because someone has a difficult house to find. I guess we were in a designated 'low priority' area as a kid for the exact same reason.
Growing up the city eventually expanded into the rural area where I lived. But I could never get a pizza delivered within an hour (or a taxi within two). Even though the pizza store (Dominos) was less than 5 minutes drive away, approx 2½ miles. A total of three streets.
All because it was really hard to see the house numbers and GPS didn't exist back then (about thirty years ago). It was really easy to miss the correct long AF driveway because of the lack of streetlights. (No access to electricity at the fenceline, you'd have to dig the trench and run the wire up to the gate yourself if you wanted to install your own light, for the pizza guy). We never complained, just started picking them up ourselves.
I drive through there from time to time, almost everything is completely different. There're only a few large-ish properties left there and they will be worth a big fat bag in the future.
Here the true slogan,
The Customer's Always Right … Except When They're Mistaken
davenport mentioned??? i lived there part time i had to carry pepper spray to walk to the gas station 😭
"that sound vaguely sexist" I said the samething thing after talking with my female friend
LMAO the ONLY place I can reasonably expect 200 meals in 15 minutes is in n out, they had me in and out of their drive in less then 15 minutes and yes I ordered no less then 200 burgers; they handed it out in a box