A Woman Defended Me At The Pizza Place

[Cuthalion]

How is that a "special"? Special usually implies that the items cost less than if you bought them individually.

5.50 for a drink and two cheese slices

Or 6.00 for two vegetable slices and a drink

Assuming they're lowering the total price .50 c to make it a special?

[Razade]

5.50 for a drink and two cheese slices

Or 6.00 for two vegetable slices and a drink

Assuming they're lowering the total price .50 c to make it a special?

The 5.50 didn't have a drink. Apparently. We only have Homer's word that that's the case but why omit that detail.

[Bartmanhomer]

The 5.50 didn't have a drink. Apparently. We only have Homer's word that that's the case but why omit that detail.

Exactly the 5.50 was two orindary plain cheese pizza without a drink. Why are they still saying that the 5.50 also including a drink?

[Cuthalion]

Exactly the 5.50 was two orindary plain cheese pizza without a drink. Why are they still saying that the 5.50 also including a drink?

do two vegetable slices cost 6.00 plus a drink which costs extra?

[Bartmanhomer]

do two vegetable slices cost 6.00 plus a drink which costs extra?

I don't know what you mean by that. By I could give you the math:

1 slice of vegetable pizza cost $2.50¢

Times 2 slices of vegetable pizza is $5.00

Add a can of Diet coke cost $1.00

Put it all together which makes it $6.00.

You see how math is fun?!

[Peelee]

I don't know what you mean by that. By I could give you the math:

1 slice of vegetable pizza cost $2.50¢

Times 2 slices of vegetable pizza is $5.00

Add a can of Diet coke cost $1.00

Put it all together which makes it $6.00.

You see how math is fun?!

Hmmm. What's the cost of a single slice of cheese pizza? It sounds like that "special" is a bad deal.

[Fawkes]

Exactly the 5.50 was two orindary plain cheese pizza without a drink. Why are they still saying that the 5.50 also including a drink?

Because that information was not included in the OP and is easy to miss when it comes out later.

This is a very silly thread about a very small personal incident that got derailed very quickly by getting caught up on poorly communicated details.

[Bartmanhomer]

Hmmm. What's the cost of a single slice of cheese pizza? It sounds like that "special" is a bad deal.

I'm not sure because I don't buy regular cheese pizza.

[Bartmanhomer]

Because that information was not included in the OP and is easy to miss when it comes out later.

This is a very silly thread about a very small personal incident that got derailed very quickly by getting caught up on poorly communicated details.

Well my apologies if I wasn't being any clearer earlier.

[Liquor Box]

Hmmm. What's the cost of a single slice of cheese pizza? It sounds like that "special" is a bad deal.

$2 each. But why would you want that when you could have the special - 2 slices for $5.50?

[Rynjin]

Am I the only one who is routinely confronted with personnel that does stuff wrong? Giving you something instead of something else, not doing their job at all, pretending not to be there, ignoring the bell used to call for service while badly pretending to be doing something else, mixing up with payment, misusing your credit card, deliberately withholding information, giving wrong or false information, not correcting their mistakes when notified?

The costumer isn't always right, but the low pay doesn't mean that the worker is a good worker, or that good workers don't screw up occasionally, or that there aren't bad workers around.

To be frank, if you're routinely "confronted with people who do stuff wrong" like ignore you, it's probably because YOU'RE the *******.

My brother constantly complains when we get stuff from, say, Five Guys and he orders his burger and everybody else' burgers come out looking beautiful and his got dropped in the bottom of the bag and smushed, upside down.

This is because when he orders something he always mumbles just a bit and when the person asks him to repeat something, or reads out his order to clarify he caught it, he gets really aggressive sounding. I tell him this, but he doesn't believe me. And he keeps getting squished burgers.

People in the food service industry or retail don't get paid much. They certainly don't get paid enough to give 110% to people who see them as servants, or "personnel" first and people second.

[Aliquid]

More letters = more reasonable.

You could go to Finland and get: Vadelmalimonadi
Or to Hungary and get: Győr-Sopron Megyei Szíkvíz

And then there is Tab

[Peelee]

You could go to Finland and get: Vadelmalimonadi
Or to Hungary and get: Győr-Sopron Megyei Szíkvíz

And then there is Tab

I think that perfectly sums up Tab.

[Chen]

I don't know what you mean by that. By I could give you the math:

1 slice of vegetable pizza cost $2.50¢

Times 2 slices of vegetable pizza is $5.00

Add a can of Diet coke cost $1.00

Put it all together which makes it $6.00.

You see how math is fun?!

Yeah either the restaurant is completely inept since their special is two plain pizza slices for a higher price than two non plain slices or you've misunderstood something about the special. Or something like the vegetable pizza has no cheese or some other lesser toppings on it than the regular cheese slices. Im assuming vegetable pizza is the same as plain cheese but with added vegetables.

[Anonymouswizard]

Hmmm. What's the cost of a single slice of cheese pizza? It sounds like that "special" is a bad deal.

I was assuming it included a drink, but even then it's horrible to push it when someone hasn't ordered plain pizza. As it is it just astounds me.

Let's say that, for some reason, I'm at a pizza place for lunch. I can be reasonably certain that they do plain cheese and tomato pizza, and so if I want that I'll ask for it. But if I decide to buy two slices of seafood pizza, then unless you have a deal that includes seafood pizza then you can assume I'm not interested in your deals.

I suspect that there might be slightly more to this deal, but the incompetence striking. I personally make an attempt to always be polite when ordering food, speaking in a relatively clear voice (I have a minor speech problem that cause me to speak slowly, so it pays to avoid confusion) and saying thank you when I get my order or no thank you when I'm offered a special I don't want. I can understand offering the special once or being annoyed because you've been on shift for a while, so I won't get annoyed at being asked to repeat what I said, but the sheer audacity of 'so I'm putting you down for the special' astounds me.

EDIT: don't forget, diet drinks are always more reasonable.

[danzibr]

At the risk of making this thread even sillier, I really want to know how you determine the relative reasonableness of various soft drinks.

Haha, I meant that I personally would order Mt Dew over Coke.

[Bartmanhomer]

Yeah either the restaurant is completely inept since their special is two plain pizza slices for a higher price than two non plain slices or you've misunderstood something about the special. Or something like the vegetable pizza has no cheese or some other lesser toppings on it than the regular cheese slices. Im assuming vegetable pizza is the same as plain cheese but with added vegetables.

I didn't misunderstood anything. I know what I ordered.

[eggynack]

I didn't misunderstood anything. I know what I ordered.

You can know what you ordered and still not know what you didn't order. I think people, including me, are now mostly interested in working through this pizza place's weird specials menu through the strange lens of kinda vague forum posts about it.

[Bartmanhomer]

You can know what you ordered and still not know what you didn't order. I think people, including me, are now mostly interested in working through this pizza place's weird specials menu through the strange lens of kinda vague forum posts about it.

What's so weird about it? Explain.

[Keltest]

What's so weird about it? Explain.

As far as we have been able to understand, the special is strictly a worse deal. You pay more for the same amount of pizza, no extra toppings, and no drink or any other side. Since this is such an obvious rip off (pay more for less!), most of us are assuming that you either misunderstood it or communicated it poorly.

[Bartmanhomer]

As far as we have been able to understand, the special is strictly a worse deal. You pay more for the same amount of pizza, no extra toppings, and no drink or any other side. Since this is such an obvious rip off (pay more for less!), most of us are assuming that you either misunderstood it or communicated it poorly.

The cashier is the one with the communication problem and I explain very clearly that I didn't want the two pizza special, he knew that I speak proper English so it was his fault, not mine. So don't blame me if you think that I have to pay $6.00 instead of $5.50. Which is barely a deal at all.

[Razade]

Yeah. Liquor Box (who I have no idea how they know the price of the pizza at his unnamed pizza place) said that a slice of cheese pizza is two dollars. Which I think everyone is going off of but I don't think I've seen anyone ask Liquor Box how they know that. We don't know where Homer is getting his pizza so there's no way of knowing the price from anyone but Homer. But if it is two dollars (and I doubt that it is because for a third time...Liquor Box can't have even a passing idea of the price) makes the Two Slices of Pizza, NO DRINK (as you claim Homer) a worse deal than just buying two slices of pizza and a drink. Because...we're going to get into some SERIOUS MATH here.

One slice of Cheese Pizza (2 Dollars) + One slice of Cheese Pizza (2 Dollars) = 2 slices of Cheese Pizza (4 Dollars)

The deal is two slices of pizza (cheese only apparently) with no drink for 5.50.

That is a buck fifty more for the exact same thing. That's not a special, that's a waste of time. Even if you buy a drink (usually around a dollar fifty but no idea at this establishment) you're getting a better or equal deal because at least you get a drink.

So.

Either Bartmanhomer is misrepresenting the deal (we call this the likely scenario)

The pizza shop wants to lose money on stupid deals no one will take (this is the less likely option because Bartmanhomer lives in or around NYC and businesses don't stay in business long with crappy practices like this)

Aliens have hijacked our brains to care to what ever degree we care to post in this thread (this is a certainty considering all the posts)

[Keltest]

The cashier is the one with the communication problem and I explain very clearly that I didn't want the two pizza special, he knew that I speak proper English so it was his fault, not mine. So don't blame me if you think that I have to pay $6.00 instead of $5.50. Which is barely a deal at all.

Its not a deal at all, which is why people are confused. Its strictly worse.

[Razade]

Its not a deal at all, which is why people are confused. Its strictly worse.

No, don't you see. It's better because Bartmanhomer was defended at the pizza place.

[Fawkes]

Oh my god why is this thread still continuing

Bartmanhomer just name the pizza place so they can look up the special and stop this madness

[Razade]

Oh my god why is this thread still continuing

Bartmanhomer just name the pizza place so they can look up the special and stop this madness

Fawkes. Bartmanhomer didn't want the 5.50 special ok? Stop trying to convince of something that's already happened.

[Jon_Dahl]

The special is a metaphor. Just think about it for a minute.

[Fawkes]

Fawkes. Bartmanhomer didn't want the 5.50 special ok? Stop trying to convince of something that's already happened.

Yes, I know. Everyone knows. Everyone knows he didn't want the special.

But for some reason the special is still up for debate, despite being completely inconsequential.

This thread is a trash fire and needs to be condemned.

[Murk]

The special is a metaphor. Just think about it for a minute.

The pizza special resembles adulthood, the two veggie slices childhood. Someone in a position of authority (the cashier) forces you to let go of your fun childhood (veggie slices) for a crappy yet inevitable deal (pizza special), even though you clearly said you don't want to - just like growing up, you end up paying more and getting less. The only way to escape the pizza special/growing up is if a parental figure is willing to take you under her wings and allow you to stay young and fun.

[SaintRidley]

The pizza special resembles adulthood, the two veggie slices childhood. Someone in a position of authority (the cashier) forces you to let go of your fun childhood (veggie slices) for a crappy yet inevitable deal (pizza special), even though you clearly said you don't want to - just like growing up, you end up paying more and getting less. The only way to escape the pizza special/growing up is if a parental figure is willing to take you under her wings and allow you to stay young and fun.

Nah. It's a metaphor for the soul-sucking blandness of capitalism. We all need to learn at the knee of a good teacher, who can guide our instinctual distaste for such a cruel and flattening system that crushes all individuality in the pursuit of profit, to give our voice strength as we stand up against the system. And maybe smash some windows and punch a fascist. But first pizza - you need nutrients to do those other things.