Where's Everybody At?

I walked in the store this afternoon and before I could even clock in, I was asked to run the cut board.  That's where you pull the stuff off the oven, cut it, box it and ticket it.  It's actually pretty fun when done in short intervals.  There were tickets backed up in the oven and I noticed the older lady that usually washes dishes was the only cook at the prep line.  Not a great sign.  I started grabbing stuff off the oven and wondering where everybod was.  Turns out four people either quit or just didn't show up for work.  Granted, a pizza place doesn't exactly have the greatest employee retention rate in the world, but still.  Four people in the same day is pretty crappy.

Turned out to be an okay night though.  Kind of busy, but not anything the few of us that showed up couldn't handle.  I even got to deliver to my friend Brandi's house.  A friendly face is always welcome when orders are running a little late.

I ended the night with two non-tippers in the same run.  The first was to some ghetto apartments that are notorious for not tipping.  In fact, if you get $1 tip there, it's because they paid with cash and accidentally gave you $1 too much.  The total was $30.78.  The lady handed me a $20 bill and told her son, who I guess was about ten, to give her the rest out of his allowance bag.  It almost made me want to tell him not to worry about it, I'd cover the rest for his deadbeat mom.  Almost.

The second was to a customer who'd ordered 2 personal pan pizzas.  We were out of personal pan dough, so they made her a medium pizza for the price of the personal pans.  She complained that it wasn't what she'd ordered, and I told her that the medium is actually larger than the two personals anyway.  She said this was the second time they'd done this to her, and I thought, "Done what?  Given you more than you paid for at no extra charge?"  I called the store and the manager discounted the order $5 and the lady thanked me by giving me no tip.

Luckily, those were the only two bad customers I had the whole night.

Worked 4 hours, had 7 deliveries, and made $31 in tips.