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Silliness, and pizza.
Aug. 4th, 2005 08:06 pmSome days, you wake up at 9:12 am, after being at work for an hour, and you're standing in the little girl's room, washing your hands and staring at your reflection in the mirror, and wondering where you were when the evil pixies came to do your makeup and why didn't you stop them, and also, why are you wearing these jeans? Or maybe, maybe that's just me.
Last year, I posted about going to Pizza Hut and having abysmal service. M had called in to the customer satisfaction survey number, and his choices caused him to be patched through to a real person, who promptly dispatched a coupon for a free pizza.
Well, we're lazy, lazy people, and somewhat sour on the Pizza Hut experience, so we never did go. I suggested it tonight, and we decided that we mighat as well go get our free pizza, as the coupon expires in October. Incidentally, the coupon says "FREE PIZZA FREE PIZZA FREE PIZZA FREE" all over the top, and the back of the coupon contains instructions for the restaraunt on how to redeem them. No other disclaimers printed. So, we order our stuffed crust pizza, which comes out somewhat overdone, just teetering on the edge of send-it-back, but we eat it without question. (FYI: not all that great.) We do have a somewhat odd but extremely attentive waiter. Actually, I would go so far as to say that he was more service-oriented than any other waiter we have ever had.
Anyway, he brought the check, and took off with our coupon. Moments later, the manager arrives, pointing out that the stuffed crust pizza is a commercial pizza, and as such, the coupon could not be used. I pointed out that it did not say that, and M showed her the text, and she took off with it again. A while later, the waiter came back and apologized profusely because the coupon wasn't valid, but they would give us the pizza but we would have to pay for our drinks. We had rather planned on paying for our drinks all along, so this was not as much of a tragedy as he seemed to think it would be. We gave him a pretty sizable tip because he really was an excellent waiter (I must admit that we're not typically much on the tipping. I think it's stupid, for one thing, and only tip in general because it's not the server's fault that they're getting paid 60 cents an hour or whatever it is, but I really don't approve of the practice. My husband, on the other hand, probably feels that after once leaving a $400 tip at a restaraunt, he never has to tip, ever again. But that's another story.)
So, basically, the story ends like this: we left a 122% tip, we got two dinners and a large lunch in leftovers for $7, a customer survey coupon for a $3.99 medium pizza, and they gave us the free pizza coupon back. I almost feel like a scammer (except for that whole thing about not being one.) Not bad for a dinner out!
In other news, I have a splitting headache.
Last year, I posted about going to Pizza Hut and having abysmal service. M had called in to the customer satisfaction survey number, and his choices caused him to be patched through to a real person, who promptly dispatched a coupon for a free pizza.
Well, we're lazy, lazy people, and somewhat sour on the Pizza Hut experience, so we never did go. I suggested it tonight, and we decided that we mighat as well go get our free pizza, as the coupon expires in October. Incidentally, the coupon says "FREE PIZZA FREE PIZZA FREE PIZZA FREE" all over the top, and the back of the coupon contains instructions for the restaraunt on how to redeem them. No other disclaimers printed. So, we order our stuffed crust pizza, which comes out somewhat overdone, just teetering on the edge of send-it-back, but we eat it without question. (FYI: not all that great.) We do have a somewhat odd but extremely attentive waiter. Actually, I would go so far as to say that he was more service-oriented than any other waiter we have ever had.
Anyway, he brought the check, and took off with our coupon. Moments later, the manager arrives, pointing out that the stuffed crust pizza is a commercial pizza, and as such, the coupon could not be used. I pointed out that it did not say that, and M showed her the text, and she took off with it again. A while later, the waiter came back and apologized profusely because the coupon wasn't valid, but they would give us the pizza but we would have to pay for our drinks. We had rather planned on paying for our drinks all along, so this was not as much of a tragedy as he seemed to think it would be. We gave him a pretty sizable tip because he really was an excellent waiter (I must admit that we're not typically much on the tipping. I think it's stupid, for one thing, and only tip in general because it's not the server's fault that they're getting paid 60 cents an hour or whatever it is, but I really don't approve of the practice. My husband, on the other hand, probably feels that after once leaving a $400 tip at a restaraunt, he never has to tip, ever again. But that's another story.)
So, basically, the story ends like this: we left a 122% tip, we got two dinners and a large lunch in leftovers for $7, a customer survey coupon for a $3.99 medium pizza, and they gave us the free pizza coupon back. I almost feel like a scammer (except for that whole thing about not being one.) Not bad for a dinner out!
In other news, I have a splitting headache.
