Pizza World

My pizza job has become my second home. I work about 50 hours a week and on top of it, I get to relax. Relax at work? Yes, I know. Very hard to believe.

People who work int he restaurant industry know when the "slow time" will be almost automatically. Normally between the hours of 1 and 4 pizza restaurants in general have little to no business.

So what do I do? Become creative!

I think of ways to abide my time by doing odd and end jobs around the store that no other person will do. These include but are not limited to:

1. Cleaning the drains and sinks
2. Washing the windows
3. Cleaning the counters
4. Sweeping underneath counters and the oven tending station
5. Going over the daily checklist 5 times, looking at the sales (proj. sales, stats, and so forth) over 20 times
6. Playing around with my cool managerial access codes
7. Last but not least, run around the store about 10 times.

And of course, we cannot forget the busy times when the customers start calling. I get these questions about 100 times a day, literally.

-Where's my pizza?

-How much does a medium mushroom, onion, green pepper, olive pizza cost with some cheesesticks, a 2 liter of soda, crushed red pepper, some garlic sauce, seasoning, and 3 nacho cheese sauce cups?

-Where are you located?
-What's your phone number?
-Do you deliver in Chapel Hill? (Our store is located there)
-Can I order a pizza?
-Can I do half and half?
-No, I just want a large cheese pizza (I offer a large up to 2 toppings pizza for $10.99 and she/he goes for the regular cheese for $14.85)
-Will you deliver to the parking lot?
-How much does your $12.99 pizza cost?
-Can you make a cheese pizza with no sauce and no cheese?
-What's the number for 911? (just kidding)

And so on and so forth, yada yada.



The funniest part of working at a pizza place has got to be the late night drunk callers. I have had my biggest laughs taking orders from these people. Here's just a normal conversation with one of them:

Me: "Thank you for calling PJ's on Franklin street. This is Annita, how can I help you?
Customer: "Where is this?"
Me: "This is PJ's, how can I help you?"
Customer: "Can I order a pizza?" (100 times a day, see above)

Footnote: This person is really drunk so I decide to have a little fun with him.

Me: "No we sell hot dogs and cheese burgers"
Customer: "Really? So PJ's is a burger joint now?
Me: "Yes"
Customer: "Wooowww, hey dude, PJ's sells burgers!! (noise clashing and people falling down with loud music)
Me: "So what can I get for you?"
Customer: " Give me 2 cheeseburgers and some fries"
Me: "We are out of fries"
Customer: "K"
Me: "So what would you like on your pizza?"
Customer: "uhh......what?"
Me: "Yes you said you wanted a pizza and you ordered 5 cheesesticks, so what do you want on your extra large pizza?"
Customer: "Oh, uh, wait a sec...........HEY GUYS WHAT DO YOU WANT?"
Me: lauging my ass off!!
Customer: "Give us a pizza with everything on it. "
Me: "How many drinks did you want?"
Customer: "Give us some 2 liters."
Me: "Okay so I have 5 orders of cheesesticks, one extra large works, three 2 liters of coke, one 2 liter of diet coke, and one 2 liter of sprite. Correct?"
Customer: "Yeah"
Me: "Thank you so much for ordering, your total comes to ONLY $65.02. How will you be paying?"
Customer: "Credit"
Me: taking his credit card number, running it through, it cleared so we're good to go!

It's fun taking money from idiots.

My day wouldn't be complete if I didn't get a few laughs in here now and then. Working here has made me laugh so much. It's too hilarious not to look back and say, "I had a good day today!".

Laughing while your working has got to be the best stress reliever. I'm glad I have a job that allows me to laugh at the common folk:-).