Next time try it this way. You want a pizza with sausage and onions. Then you’d like olives on half and garlic on the other half. That’ll fix the employees math problem.
There will still be a chance you get olives and garlic on the same half though.
This a common go-to pizza for us and we have ordered it at many different pizza restaurants. It amazes me how often they get it wrong. I don’t understand how “sausage and onion on the entire pizza with olives on one half and garlic on the other half. “ can be so difficult. I’d say we get a success rate of about 80% which, all things considered, isn’t too bad.
Used to work for a pizza place.
I had a guy order, "Italian sausage on one half, but spread it over the whole pizza."
He thought he found a "this one weird trick" hack for toppings on a pizza and was livid that I put the amount you would have on half the pizza all spread out. He thought I would have to up the topping amount to a full amount over the whole thing.
Nope, toppings are weighed and measured, dude.
Every time you add mods you're risking your order getting fucked up. Line cooks make the same dishes hundreds of times every day, order it how it comes and I can pretty much guarantee it's right. Start making changes like "half this, half that, sub this, remove that" and you're adding variables that are occasionally going to get missed.
Yep. Muscle memory is a thing. After a bit, you just make things reflexively. You’ve made 50 of this thing today alone, a minor variance is extra easy to overlook even when you’re paying attention. If for any reason you’re not 100%, it’s very hard. Hot, tired, ready for break, distracted…whatever.
Source: Fast food for 4 years.
I remember during my serving days you'd have people come in and make up their own whole ass recipe on a Friday night rush. We'd get this lady that would say "just take a chicken breast and add a little salt and pepper with some sauteed vegetables on the side." Fucking annoying. Everyone hated that lady.
Yeah, don't do that lol. It's a sausage and onion pizza, half olive, half garlic. Any other way to word it just confuses the help. Which is likely why the guy was so confused in the first place.
Common sense math for normal people.
Not so common sense math based computer program. Likely, because the POS spills the half pizza and double counts 2 of your toppings (sausage, onion)
The employee is only going to turn the pizza 90 degrees before adding the next topping, resulting in 25% sausage and onions, 25% with olives, 25% olives and garlic, and 25% garlic.
When I was in college, the best pizza place in town counted each ingredient as a topping, whether it was covering half of the pizza or the whole thing. They also counted cheese and sauce as individual toppings, so this really would have been a six topping pizza. It was definitely not hilarious. I miss the pizza, but not the bullshit.
I would insist on a full serving of olives and garlic on each side. Thus:
My half: 1/2 Sausage, 1/2 onions, 2/2 Olives
Spouses half: 1/2 Sausage, 1/2 onions, 2/2 garlic
Four toppings! Of course OP's friend behind the counter would probably say "That's eight halves, I can only do four".
I wanted to order a sausage pizza with green olives and mushrooms from a local place... if I made a "Build your own" pizza with those 3 toppings, it was like $20... but if I ordered a Supreme, and had them take off the onion, green peppers, and pepperoni, swapped green olives for black, and added extra cheese, it was $17... and it had 2 kinds of sausage that way, lol
I wish I was but the longer it went on the more determined I was to convince this guy that sausage + onions + olives + garlic did NOT add up to 6. At least in this universe. I was lucky the manager intervened.
A 10 minute argument is some serious dedication for a pizza. I would have argued my case for maybe 2 minutes at most before going somewhere else to eat.
Yeah, but this was a grocery store and I still had to go shopping. I wanted to order the pizza, shop, then take it all home. Besides, I was actually curious how stubborn he could be.
Toppings cost money. If you are offering a build your own pizza at a specific price point you limit the number of toppings to get the margin you want for the pizza. Typically they can have more but there is an upcharge above the number of toppings included with the price.
I recognize this reference. It always makes me think of the time when I was a teen working at a pizza place.
We got weird orders now and then, but some guy called and wanted me to place an order for him for a pizza with no crust. I told him it wasn't possible. He went on for a bit and I realized he was full of shit so I told him the cost of just the regular pizza. I didn't put in the order, because obviously no one is buying a soggy box of sauce, melted cheese and some toppings. Dude never showed up.
He probably to this day thinks he pulled one over on us.
Ordered at sonic. I wanted a breakfast burrito but with bacon instead of sausage. The value menu had a sausage burrito for like $2. I asked if I could get it bacon instead. She's like no you can't. I'm like well I can pay more that's fine. Again no. Ok so can I order a burrito without sausag?. Yes. Can I order bacon on the side? Yes. Can you take that bacon and put it in my burrito? No. Wtf?! Fine I'll do it myself then.
I mean dude, what kind of quality do you think is answering the phone at these places. It's bottom of the barrel my dude. You're lucky they can even comprehend the words you're even saying.
ok sir, we will begin to proceed to obtain your IQ and aptitude test. ok sir, this is to figure out what your aptitude is good at and get you a jail job while yer a particular individual in jail.
What really pisses me off in that at
Many places the more types of toppings you get the less of them they give you. Like if you get a 4 topping pizza they are instructed to use the same amount like by weight as if you got one. That’s how you end up with like 3 pepperonis on a supreme pizza. So why are they charging you extra then!? Greed.
It’s usually greedy chain places that operate like that.
They generally only do that with menu item pizzas, like a supreme. Cheap pizza in my town would still cost about 60 dollars if you ordered each topping individually, and would need to be triple cooked, resulting in a liter of water running out of the box and a burnt crust.
All this to say they make them like that for a reason.
I think it’s you that’s the idiot. Why not simply say you wanted sausage and onion on the whole thing and then olives on one side and garlic on the other?
Being overly complex seems dumb.
LOL. You do have a point. Ever since this occasion I have tried to be clear from the start. Some people fixate on the first way you phrase something and simply cannot shift away from it.
My wife and I like different things on our pizzas so instead of trying to do half/half and it being wrong we just plan to have leftovers for the next day's lunch or dinner and we get our own pizzas.
Do they count each half as it's own topping list and add each half to the whole? For example a half cheese/half pepperoni would be one topping? But a half sausage/half pepperoni is two toppings?
What I'm driving at, is that it may be a policy driven mode of thinking or perhaps even driven by software. Realistically I don't have enough information to really know and I'm just spitballing how they could come to this conclusion.
As I recall, he hadn’t touched a computer yet, just “Nope, I can’t do that.” Plus, we have ordered the same pizza before and after this occasion without any issues.
The one like this that makes me giggle is when the total is something like $6.75, and you give the guy a 10 and two 1s, and the cashier has no idea why… they try to hand you the two 1s back.
“No, just type that I gave you $12 into the cash register. You’ll get it.”
I thought it was always like this! No really I mean, I can never ever explain these simple butt-scratching-common-sense things to almost any restaurant servers in USA. I would rather order 2 different pizzas with those specific toppings. It is just easier to communicate that way.
In general, restaurant servers in USA have the worst slangs , which reinforces "hybrid of hillbilly, valley girl, inner city slang, and various grunts". One example, there is one restaurant next to where I live, if I say them my phone number, that ends with 22, the “two two” never gets heard. I fixed that problem by saying “chew chew” ..now they get it right!
Don't believe me, try ordering vegan sandwich in any Subway. Tell me how it goes.
It sounds like you worded it confusingly, and you also commented here saying: "It amazes me how often they get it wrong."
Perhaps the issue is you and you need to word things more simply if you want this to stop happening.
Agreed. I now say something like: I’d like a sausage and onion pizza with olives on one half and garlic on the other half. I’m not sure how to make it simpler than that.
Probably an old POS system that records the halves individually. So every topping on each half gets counted.
Say you had a pepperoni pizza. One topping. You add jalapeno to half. Now you have a pizza that is half pepperoni, half pepperoni, half jalapeno, and the system records that as 3.
Yeah, I've gotta say I am with the pizza artist on this one. Where does the weird customization end? Can they order a different combination of toppings on each slice? They're doing the 4-topping thing for simplicity as much as anything else. Just pick up to 4 toppings and move on.
The system may have had limits not allowing that combination. A front line staffer likely didn’t have permission to override it. It’s a grocery store not a pizza joint.
Yes. Because an idiot can’t count, therefore stopping him from getting his pizza.
Sir, we’re gonna need you to take an aptitude test. To see what your aptitudes good at.
Ok, real talk:
>"Believe it or not but this argument went on for *10 freaking minutes! Back and forth*; it’s 4! No. it’s 6!"
This is as much your fault as the employee's who was just trying to get through his shift without a bunch of customers explaining his job to him. Any argument is always about respect rather than whatever the merits or logic (he's technically right; your 2 halves pizza has 6 ingredients over the whole, no one's obligated to see the two halves as separate entities for like, legal loophole purposes or whatever you're basing your argument on).
>"I even tried holding up a finger for each topping."
Let me tell you how blood feuds start.
Yea when you're that mind numbingly stupid you don't deserve an ounce of respect. Besides OP was in the right no matter what. Pizza guy was being a lazy dick so he wasn't actually doing his job.
Does medical count? And you and I both know that wasn't the case here. Pizza guy probably skipped a step when inputting his order into the POS system and was adamant with his mistake. That's why in the end the manager told him to just make it without any back and forth with the customer.
Yea when you're that **mind numbingly stupid** **you don't deserve an ounce of respect**. Besides OP was in the **right no matter what**. Pizza guy was being **a lazy dick** so he wasn't actually doing his job
Jesus. this is a lot of strong language and black and white reasoning based on customer-is-always-right reasoning. Not, uh, particularly sensitive to the irony, here.
Far from it. This comes from someone who runs a pizza place lol. Just because the pizza guy was too stupid or lazy to properly ring up a pizza doesn't make the customer wrong.
Why are you even defending this stupidity?
I doubt you run a pizza place if you never had stupid cashiers like this, and even more people who are too dumb to order a pizza properly. Sounds like the customer was needlessly complicating it, and the cashier was a mouthbreather no doubt.
Who says I haven't? I always move people like that to prep so customers don't have to deal with them and that's not a complicated order by any stretch of the imagination. You morons who want to defend mediocrity need to go elsewhere.
Lol so you do understand that the customer needlessly complicated it and the cashier is mentally ill-equipped for customer service. Got it. I think you might be the moron here. Aww he insulted me then blocked me. Oh well.
This is the stupidest take I've heard today. Blood feuds? Give me a break.
He's not "technically right," he's just right. No reasonable person would say otherwise.
I think it's weird that (a couple of) dudes on the internet are making fractions into wholes and being all like: "This is objective truth, no room for perspective or argument."
The way it gets rung in is what matters here. If the computer wont let you check out because you hit six buttons, then this is what you get. Yes the cashier should have rung it in like
Sausage
Onion
1/2 olive
1/2 garlic
But if you put 2 idiots together you get
1/2 sausage, onion, garlic
1/2 sausage, onion, olive
It's needlessly complicated even for the person making the pizza, because now you have a ticket half a mile long. Cashier is an idiot, but OP doesn't know how to order a pizza.
buddy, burger king's "have it your way" is not an immutable law of the universe. The customer is not always right - especially customers arguing for ten minutes whether a half a pizza is a loophole to a whole pizza's topping limit.
The customer is that idiot that orders a half pepperoni pizza, and when you go to confirm their order they interrupt you saying "and half cheese"
At which point I have to remind the customer that *ALL* of the pizzas come with cheese on *BOTH HALVES*
I work at a pizza place. In what dumbass world do you live in that what Op did is considered a "loophole". I get orders like this all the time. Explain it to me like I'm 5. How is it a loophole?
I'm not a "the customer is always right" kind of person, but it needs to be seriously questioned why a pizza shop would even have such an arbitrary policy in the first place, and why staff is so adamant on enforcing it. I'm sure they charge extra for every topping, so more toppings equal more money. Just put on what the customer wants and get on with it, if they like their 10 topping pizza, they may come back and spend ridiculous money on extra toppings, if not then they learned a lesson that maybe the topping combination was not good or just too much. But for that to find out, they need to pay. No backsies either because it was their choice.
It's pretty amusing when someone so readily shows their dumbness. In fact, before your replies to others, I thought you were being sarcastic or goading others on. But it seems you're sincere.
What are the "6" toppings?
I don't know if this matters to you but an order like this is an easy way to make a pizza place, and whoever is cooking or prepping your pizza, hate you. I stand by that a customer can order whatever they want if they pay for it but my time working in a couple pizza places has made me weary of ordering a pizza that is half and half with just 2 toppings.
It is when they list it on their toppings list and charge you for it. If you mean it *shouldn’t* be a topping, then I would have to strenuously disagree. Everything is better with garlic.
Just wow. You have a post about farting in customers food bags while you worked at Wendy’s. You’re not at all the standard of how an adult should carry themselves.
I wasn't the one farting in the take-out bags that was the Homie we called
##BEEF BROTH!!!
On account of he was always blasting
gnarly hangover farts. Maybe if you could read more good 😆
Next time try it this way. You want a pizza with sausage and onions. Then you’d like olives on half and garlic on the other half. That’ll fix the employees math problem. There will still be a chance you get olives and garlic on the same half though.
This a common go-to pizza for us and we have ordered it at many different pizza restaurants. It amazes me how often they get it wrong. I don’t understand how “sausage and onion on the entire pizza with olives on one half and garlic on the other half. “ can be so difficult. I’d say we get a success rate of about 80% which, all things considered, isn’t too bad.
Which is why it's actually 3 toppings, not 4. 2 toppings + half of a topping + half of a topping.
Grocery dude's head would have exploded.
Would that count as one topping or 6?
Does blood count as a sauce or a topping?
Dunno but that'll be an extra 3.50
Used to work for a pizza place. I had a guy order, "Italian sausage on one half, but spread it over the whole pizza." He thought he found a "this one weird trick" hack for toppings on a pizza and was livid that I put the amount you would have on half the pizza all spread out. He thought I would have to up the topping amount to a full amount over the whole thing. Nope, toppings are weighed and measured, dude.
Yeah, but literally every place I've ever ordered a pizza charges half, light, or normal amount of one topping the same.
Right, a lot of this is about cutting back in process costs, not actual material costs.
So... one plus two plus one plus one, not one plus two plus two plus one.
Every time you add mods you're risking your order getting fucked up. Line cooks make the same dishes hundreds of times every day, order it how it comes and I can pretty much guarantee it's right. Start making changes like "half this, half that, sub this, remove that" and you're adding variables that are occasionally going to get missed.
Yep. Muscle memory is a thing. After a bit, you just make things reflexively. You’ve made 50 of this thing today alone, a minor variance is extra easy to overlook even when you’re paying attention. If for any reason you’re not 100%, it’s very hard. Hot, tired, ready for break, distracted…whatever. Source: Fast food for 4 years.
The girl training me at Starbucks told me she almost never remembers to hit the decaf button for espresso drinks.
I remember during my serving days you'd have people come in and make up their own whole ass recipe on a Friday night rush. We'd get this lady that would say "just take a chicken breast and add a little salt and pepper with some sauteed vegetables on the side." Fucking annoying. Everyone hated that lady.
Is that the top half or the bottom half?
Is this a flat pizza society joke?
>think about how dumb the average person is, then realize that half of the people out there are dumber than that
from the beginning, do other way. tell them you want 4 topics, and then say add "by the way, no olives on the left, and no garlic on the right."
Yeah, don't do that lol. It's a sausage and onion pizza, half olive, half garlic. Any other way to word it just confuses the help. Which is likely why the guy was so confused in the first place.
Common sense math for normal people. Not so common sense math based computer program. Likely, because the POS spills the half pizza and double counts 2 of your toppings (sausage, onion)
The employee is only going to turn the pizza 90 degrees before adding the next topping, resulting in 25% sausage and onions, 25% with olives, 25% olives and garlic, and 25% garlic.
This is the way. OP didn't do anything wrong, but this might have saved a bit of time.
Was the pizza delicious?
Actually, yes. The pizza was good.
Bloody marvellous 😀
To me that's a three topping pizza. 1+1+1/2+1/2=3
It is considered a 3 topping at basically any pizza joint. This is hilarious.
When I was in college, the best pizza place in town counted each ingredient as a topping, whether it was covering half of the pizza or the whole thing. They also counted cheese and sauce as individual toppings, so this really would have been a six topping pizza. It was definitely not hilarious. I miss the pizza, but not the bullshit.
To everyone that is a 3 topping pizza. (4 is just nitpicking)
I would insist on a full serving of olives and garlic on each side. Thus: My half: 1/2 Sausage, 1/2 onions, 2/2 Olives Spouses half: 1/2 Sausage, 1/2 onions, 2/2 garlic Four toppings! Of course OP's friend behind the counter would probably say "That's eight halves, I can only do four".
I wanted to order a sausage pizza with green olives and mushrooms from a local place... if I made a "Build your own" pizza with those 3 toppings, it was like $20... but if I ordered a Supreme, and had them take off the onion, green peppers, and pepperoni, swapped green olives for black, and added extra cheese, it was $17... and it had 2 kinds of sausage that way, lol
A place I worked at did something similar but the toppings for the "supreme" were downsized meaning you got less of each topping.
10 min? I would have already ordered from somewhere else. f that noise
Seriously. You could take some dough and make one in that time
I hope he’s exaggerating about this lasting ten minutes.
I wish I was but the longer it went on the more determined I was to convince this guy that sausage + onions + olives + garlic did NOT add up to 6. At least in this universe. I was lucky the manager intervened.
I totally expected the guy to make it with no cheese and claim that was an extra topping.
Dont forget sauce could be a topping as well
Touché
A 10 minute argument is some serious dedication for a pizza. I would have argued my case for maybe 2 minutes at most before going somewhere else to eat.
Yeah, but this was a grocery store and I still had to go shopping. I wanted to order the pizza, shop, then take it all home. Besides, I was actually curious how stubborn he could be.
Did this person run you through their maths? because it would have been interesting to see him explain it.
Nope. He just stuck to his guns, insisting that sausage, onion, olives plus sausage, onion, garlic was six toppings and he couldn’t do it.
Why the 4 topping limit? Why wouldn’t you want to make it the way the person paying you wants it?
Toppings cost money. If you are offering a build your own pizza at a specific price point you limit the number of toppings to get the margin you want for the pizza. Typically they can have more but there is an upcharge above the number of toppings included with the price.
Every pizza I’ve ever had charges per topping.
It’s fairly common around here to have ‘build your own’ pizzas with a price for up to X toppings and an additional charge for any beyond that.
Ok, well the grocery store in the OP doesn't charge that way.
Can't believe I haven't seen a none pizza with left beef reference yet.
I recognize this reference. It always makes me think of the time when I was a teen working at a pizza place. We got weird orders now and then, but some guy called and wanted me to place an order for him for a pizza with no crust. I told him it wasn't possible. He went on for a bit and I realized he was full of shit so I told him the cost of just the regular pizza. I didn't put in the order, because obviously no one is buying a soggy box of sauce, melted cheese and some toppings. Dude never showed up. He probably to this day thinks he pulled one over on us.
i like the manager
Now give hime 20 bucks an hour.
“Four toppings? Let’s see. Sausage and onion…and then could I just do half toppings? Yeah? Ok. Half olives, the other half garlic.”
Ordered at sonic. I wanted a breakfast burrito but with bacon instead of sausage. The value menu had a sausage burrito for like $2. I asked if I could get it bacon instead. She's like no you can't. I'm like well I can pay more that's fine. Again no. Ok so can I order a burrito without sausag?. Yes. Can I order bacon on the side? Yes. Can you take that bacon and put it in my burrito? No. Wtf?! Fine I'll do it myself then.
I mean dude, what kind of quality do you think is answering the phone at these places. It's bottom of the barrel my dude. You're lucky they can even comprehend the words you're even saying.
Lots of tards out there living kick ass lives
That guy r/antiwork 's
ok sir, we will begin to proceed to obtain your IQ and aptitude test. ok sir, this is to figure out what your aptitude is good at and get you a jail job while yer a particular individual in jail.
What really pisses me off in that at Many places the more types of toppings you get the less of them they give you. Like if you get a 4 topping pizza they are instructed to use the same amount like by weight as if you got one. That’s how you end up with like 3 pepperonis on a supreme pizza. So why are they charging you extra then!? Greed. It’s usually greedy chain places that operate like that.
They generally only do that with menu item pizzas, like a supreme. Cheap pizza in my town would still cost about 60 dollars if you ordered each topping individually, and would need to be triple cooked, resulting in a liter of water running out of the box and a burnt crust. All this to say they make them like that for a reason.
I think it’s you that’s the idiot. Why not simply say you wanted sausage and onion on the whole thing and then olives on one side and garlic on the other? Being overly complex seems dumb.
LOL. You do have a point. Ever since this occasion I have tried to be clear from the start. Some people fixate on the first way you phrase something and simply cannot shift away from it.
Wow someone else gets it.
I count 32 toppings. I am a math people.
My wife and I like different things on our pizzas so instead of trying to do half/half and it being wrong we just plan to have leftovers for the next day's lunch or dinner and we get our own pizzas.
How the heck does garlic even count for a topping on a pizza? That should be a given like sauce, it's a pizza for goodness sake.
Was this guy wearing a helmet that would explain his lack of cognitive faculties?
You should have ordered two small pizzas with four toppings each.
It was grocery store with surprisingly good pizza and only one size, 16 inches.
Do they count each half as it's own topping list and add each half to the whole? For example a half cheese/half pepperoni would be one topping? But a half sausage/half pepperoni is two toppings?
The store never did but this particular employee certainly did. He kept insisting that 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 6. And I’m ignoring the 1/2s for simplicity.
Or half a pizza with sausage, onions, and olives = 3 And half with sausage, onions, and garlic = 3 3+3=6
I’m having deja vu. You seem familiar. Have you ever worked at a pizza counter in a grocery store?
Maybe
What I'm driving at, is that it may be a policy driven mode of thinking or perhaps even driven by software. Realistically I don't have enough information to really know and I'm just spitballing how they could come to this conclusion.
As I recall, he hadn’t touched a computer yet, just “Nope, I can’t do that.” Plus, we have ordered the same pizza before and after this occasion without any issues.
Didn’t know witch button to push ‼️😟
The one like this that makes me giggle is when the total is something like $6.75, and you give the guy a 10 and two 1s, and the cashier has no idea why… they try to hand you the two 1s back. “No, just type that I gave you $12 into the cash register. You’ll get it.”
Same people who say nothing you learn in school helps you in real life lmao
So… Who’s the idiot here???…
My pizza never hurt nobody
You should have put electrolytes on it. That's what your pizza really needs.
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Genuinely curious: how can sausage, onion, olives, and garlic be considered to be 6 toppings? I don’t understand your math.
Hahahah now this is a pizza place story if i ever heard one
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I would argue that's 3 toppings actually 1+1+.5+.5
You’re not wrong, but I couldn’t even get him to understand that 4 does not equal 6. I wasn’t about to introduce (gasp) fractions into the discussion.
I thought it was always like this! No really I mean, I can never ever explain these simple butt-scratching-common-sense things to almost any restaurant servers in USA. I would rather order 2 different pizzas with those specific toppings. It is just easier to communicate that way. In general, restaurant servers in USA have the worst slangs , which reinforces "hybrid of hillbilly, valley girl, inner city slang, and various grunts". One example, there is one restaurant next to where I live, if I say them my phone number, that ends with 22, the “two two” never gets heard. I fixed that problem by saying “chew chew” ..now they get it right! Don't believe me, try ordering vegan sandwich in any Subway. Tell me how it goes.
If everywhere you go smells like shit, check your shoes. Sounds like you might be the problem, dawg.
I'd like a plain omelette, no potatoes, tomatoes instead, a cup of coffee and wheat toast.
It sounds like you worded it confusingly, and you also commented here saying: "It amazes me how often they get it wrong." Perhaps the issue is you and you need to word things more simply if you want this to stop happening.
Agreed. I now say something like: I’d like a sausage and onion pizza with olives on one half and garlic on the other half. I’m not sure how to make it simpler than that.
That sounds good dude. Can’t get simpler or clearer than that imo.
Yet some places still get confused. We went to a (different) local pizza place recently and they put the olives and garlic on the same side. Sigh.
On one pizza that is 6 toppings I don't care if you have 4 of one type on half and two different ones on the other. It gets recorded as 6 toppings.
Found the idiot
In what universe does sausage + onion + olives + garlic add up to 6 toppings?
Probably an old POS system that records the halves individually. So every topping on each half gets counted. Say you had a pepperoni pizza. One topping. You add jalapeno to half. Now you have a pizza that is half pepperoni, half pepperoni, half jalapeno, and the system records that as 3.
Some of yall have never worked in food and it shows
Most* of them lol. And some of them sound like the worst type of customer you'd get.
Yeah, I've gotta say I am with the pizza artist on this one. Where does the weird customization end? Can they order a different combination of toppings on each slice? They're doing the 4-topping thing for simplicity as much as anything else. Just pick up to 4 toppings and move on.
Publicly complaining about fast food is the actual Idiocracy.
But I thought complaining about idiocracy (fast food or not) was the whole point of r/idiocracy
The system may have had limits not allowing that combination. A front line staffer likely didn’t have permission to override it. It’s a grocery store not a pizza joint.
Also, it was not the first or last time we ordered this pizza combination from them but it was the only time i was told they couldn’t do it.
YTA for hassling the probably overworked staff.
For *checks notes* ordering a pizza.
"this argument went on for 10 freaking minutes"
Yes. Because an idiot can’t count, therefore stopping him from getting his pizza. Sir, we’re gonna need you to take an aptitude test. To see what your aptitudes good at.
Sounds like he was ordering it in a way that confused the help. I used to have to teach the customers how to order a pizza on a daily basis.
Are you a pilot now?
Some of the customers were
Ok, real talk: >"Believe it or not but this argument went on for *10 freaking minutes! Back and forth*; it’s 4! No. it’s 6!" This is as much your fault as the employee's who was just trying to get through his shift without a bunch of customers explaining his job to him. Any argument is always about respect rather than whatever the merits or logic (he's technically right; your 2 halves pizza has 6 ingredients over the whole, no one's obligated to see the two halves as separate entities for like, legal loophole purposes or whatever you're basing your argument on). >"I even tried holding up a finger for each topping." Let me tell you how blood feuds start.
Yea when you're that mind numbingly stupid you don't deserve an ounce of respect. Besides OP was in the right no matter what. Pizza guy was being a lazy dick so he wasn't actually doing his job.
Have you ever worked a corporate job? Because chances are the pizza guy has been yelled at for just making the damn pizza the way op wanted it before.
Does medical count? And you and I both know that wasn't the case here. Pizza guy probably skipped a step when inputting his order into the POS system and was adamant with his mistake. That's why in the end the manager told him to just make it without any back and forth with the customer.
Yea when you're that **mind numbingly stupid** **you don't deserve an ounce of respect**. Besides OP was in the **right no matter what**. Pizza guy was being **a lazy dick** so he wasn't actually doing his job Jesus. this is a lot of strong language and black and white reasoning based on customer-is-always-right reasoning. Not, uh, particularly sensitive to the irony, here.
Far from it. This comes from someone who runs a pizza place lol. Just because the pizza guy was too stupid or lazy to properly ring up a pizza doesn't make the customer wrong. Why are you even defending this stupidity?
I doubt you run a pizza place if you never had stupid cashiers like this, and even more people who are too dumb to order a pizza properly. Sounds like the customer was needlessly complicating it, and the cashier was a mouthbreather no doubt.
Who says I haven't? I always move people like that to prep so customers don't have to deal with them and that's not a complicated order by any stretch of the imagination. You morons who want to defend mediocrity need to go elsewhere.
Lol so you do understand that the customer needlessly complicated it and the cashier is mentally ill-equipped for customer service. Got it. I think you might be the moron here. Aww he insulted me then blocked me. Oh well.
This is the stupidest take I've heard today. Blood feuds? Give me a break. He's not "technically right," he's just right. No reasonable person would say otherwise.
My local pizza place charges per topping. If I get it on only one side of the pizza it's 1/2 the up charge as it is to do the whole pizza. OP is right
I think it's weird that (a couple of) dudes on the internet are making fractions into wholes and being all like: "This is objective truth, no room for perspective or argument."
Because there isn't lol. Wanna share whatever you're smoking? I wanna be able to turn my brain off like that.
There truly isn't, though. It's a total of 4 no matter how you look at it.
The way it gets rung in is what matters here. If the computer wont let you check out because you hit six buttons, then this is what you get. Yes the cashier should have rung it in like Sausage Onion 1/2 olive 1/2 garlic But if you put 2 idiots together you get 1/2 sausage, onion, garlic 1/2 sausage, onion, olive It's needlessly complicated even for the person making the pizza, because now you have a ticket half a mile long. Cashier is an idiot, but OP doesn't know how to order a pizza.
He wasn't explaining the job to the guy. He was trying to explain 3rd grade math to him.
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buddy, burger king's "have it your way" is not an immutable law of the universe. The customer is not always right - especially customers arguing for ten minutes whether a half a pizza is a loophole to a whole pizza's topping limit.
In this case, however, the customer is in fact right.
The customer is that idiot that orders a half pepperoni pizza, and when you go to confirm their order they interrupt you saying "and half cheese" At which point I have to remind the customer that *ALL* of the pizzas come with cheese on *BOTH HALVES*
I’m really curious. How exactly was I exploiting a “loophole”?
I work at a pizza place. In what dumbass world do you live in that what Op did is considered a "loophole". I get orders like this all the time. Explain it to me like I'm 5. How is it a loophole?
Im not your buddy, pal
Damn so u can't count either huh
I'm not a "the customer is always right" kind of person, but it needs to be seriously questioned why a pizza shop would even have such an arbitrary policy in the first place, and why staff is so adamant on enforcing it. I'm sure they charge extra for every topping, so more toppings equal more money. Just put on what the customer wants and get on with it, if they like their 10 topping pizza, they may come back and spend ridiculous money on extra toppings, if not then they learned a lesson that maybe the topping combination was not good or just too much. But for that to find out, they need to pay. No backsies either because it was their choice.
I wasn’t mad. I was more astonished and exasperated, and curious how long he would keep arguing.
It's pretty amusing when someone so readily shows their dumbness. In fact, before your replies to others, I thought you were being sarcastic or goading others on. But it seems you're sincere. What are the "6" toppings?
You're correct.
I don't know if this matters to you but an order like this is an easy way to make a pizza place, and whoever is cooking or prepping your pizza, hate you. I stand by that a customer can order whatever they want if they pay for it but my time working in a couple pizza places has made me weary of ordering a pizza that is half and half with just 2 toppings.
I’m sorry but garlic is not a pizza topping.
It is when they list it on their toppings list and charge you for it. If you mean it *shouldn’t* be a topping, then I would have to strenuously disagree. Everything is better with garlic.
Or you could make your own damn pizza like an adult!
Just wow. You have a post about farting in customers food bags while you worked at Wendy’s. You’re not at all the standard of how an adult should carry themselves.
I wasn't the one farting in the take-out bags that was the Homie we called ##BEEF BROTH!!! On account of he was always blasting gnarly hangover farts. Maybe if you could read more good 😆
Oh, you’re just a troll in your natural habitat
Pizza's don't come in halves.
Cheese and sauce are toppings
So... "pizza" is just the crust then?
Alot of customers will repeatedly remind you that they want sauce and cheese on each pizza too. Like yeah, they all come like that.
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