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when it comes to local pizza places, once i know the area, my brain just begins to spit out some hairy graph like the abstract display that's supposed to describe how difficult a DDR level is, and why. this one place, they are kind of a pain. but they have the best greasy pizza. or, well, they did. and they've become more of a pain. a bit before 7, they close at 9, and their online ordering is borked. so i call. after one ring i am redirected to a voicemail system with the guy recording the greeting saying DO NOT LEAVE A MESSAGE ON THIS SYSTEM hang up and call back and press 1 to place an order then the system beeps and begins recording my message. "A MESSAGE ON THIS SYSTEM" i say proudly, and then hang up. i figure sometime today someone was like *sssnerk* this fuckin guy but, yes, i do as instructed beyond that, and the girl on the line is like "ummm we're closing in like five minutes" and when i point out their web site says otherwise i can feel her start to sdfjgkdfg a little and so i'm all "no no it's cool just could you fix that?" and she's all "ummm thank you for bringing that up." reality, bullshit filtered: technically, they should have taken that order, but they didn't feel like it, when i called they deftly pushed a button and redirected me to voicemail in a manner that was utterly disorienting; they -- she -- did not expect me to call back and actually beat her to the draw on the phone system. like, i pressed 1 before she could blam me and she was genuinely flustered to answer anyways, i get a pizza today, finally, after an hour and a half, and it is lukewarm and soggy. what happened, guys? this shit used to be nice and properly burnt to a crisp; now it's soggy. given their phone system they're absolutely ripe for me to go longmont potion castle on them, but i think i may just kick pizza because this was the best place and now they suck and fuck eet |
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i get the impression that a lot of people selling things think people will just keep paying forever no matter how much they cut things. the fried chicken is shit too. done with this place |
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How's Lewis? |
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Fuck em man. Not worth bothering with that pizza place any more. |
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can you not get bags of vegetables and packs of meat where you live? get a bunch of spices aswell, u can make loads of food in ur house |
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you may aswell take up heroin, the good that shit is doing you |
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Closing?? I want to speak to the manager!!! |
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on the contrary. as i kind of indicated, she cringed nervously as i pointed out their website said they were open for at least another hour ("we're closing in five minutes" was more than an hour before). i really figured they were just all "fuck it we're knackered let's close" and that's fine. she said they'd look into fixing the site. they will not. it was all just a very delicate pretext for "you do know this a bit bullshit right" "welll ummm uhhh i" "no it's cool, don't worry about it, i'm just saying" ...that it is yet another bit of nonsense from your establishment, and, no, i do not need to speak to the manager, i'm not going to chew you out, in fact i'm going to actually kind of cooingly soothe you a bit [for real -- because i could hear she was like some nervous 16yo girl]. but it is a polite warning that i've about had it with attempting to order pizza here and may cease to bother if things continue this way and here we are. yeah, think i'll just stop ordering pizza. i don't order much, just, sometimes... |
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anyways; just figured this place could use some content. |
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just ordered a domino's online |
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try the extra-crispy brooklyn-style cardboard instead of regular cardboard crust |
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it was shitty, even by their standards, the pizza was a mess |
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yeah, that was really the clincher. no pizza tonight? even arguably within a reasonable amount before closing? i am bummed but i'll live. next day, pizza, and it's shitty? and the fried chicken inconsistent; one burned, another, like... is this cooked enough? so yep. last time i actually got a pizza out of them they killed it, but i think i'ma leave them to think about what they've done for a good bit at least. |
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cape cod hours. that's where i've felt this before. cape cod is a seasonal economy and, unless it's the peak summer season, places will just close early because they feel like it. i didn't press the matter, but my roommate did: why do you guys keep closing early? the sign on the door says you'll be open then and you are consistently not the reply: "oh, well, no one was coming in so we closed" and that man did have a talent for hitting the nail on the head. he replied, "well maybe if you were actually open when you said you were instead of being closed, people would actually show up" he reported the clerk did not really have an answer for this one. |
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for scale, i would cite that even stop and shop would sometimes just decide, "oh good enough let's close two hours early" then they fight any proposed infra upgrades because it will "bring too many people" whilst complaining the local economy sux i guess some people simply don't want to be in business, deep down |
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i'm just speculating, but i think it's a bad time to eat out, now. local bar, similar situation but less dramatic. i think costs are squeezing both labor and ingredients so prices have gone up but you get worse food. |
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get a bunch of spices aswell, u can make loads of food in ur house i mean, i have this. i do a fantastic stir fry. my landlady was all "do you mind if i grow veggies in your yard" and go right ahead. and i made a stir fry for first time in ages and picked peas right off the vine and threw the whole pods in but then gods, this is work. like four hours at least. cleaning up afterwards, particularly miserable. if i didn't have, like, a job i am looking to replace, leading into when am i going to take care of the cavity i suspect i am working on [insurance], leading into how i'm up to re-sign my lease and that in and of itself is cool but i need to research the proposed rail expansion because i could be signing on for hell noise inconvenience there. and the fucking electricity provider switch and i can't do like... i used to be into the meatzza, but recently i'm quite religious about greasy plain cheese onto which i dump a bunch of salt. and i can't do that at home, on my own. so there are limits. but i bought some eggs and sourdough bread from the farmer's market and i haven't made eggy toast in ages and that's way easier than stir fry. |
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cape cod hours are roughly correspondent to hip-hop time, in which macy gray shows up at fatboy slim's studio three hours late for the recording of "love life" |
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i also got a bunch of veggies and some ground beef. so i'll probably do tacos with veggies and then some oemlettes with the rest of the veggies honestly a lot of what i eat these days is, like... peanuts. bananas. mozzarella cheese sticks. just grazing constantly. but you need a few solid ones regularly; you can't do it all that way |
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i've really never made any effort to go vegan or vegetarian or even cut down on meat but i read this thread and, interesting, i've really cut a lot of the meat out of my diet without noticing. just either expensive or inconvenient |
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to be fair, i have a pair of [the large, 1lb] willow tree chicken pot pies in my freezer, and i will totally plow through that whole thing myself if i have a particularly bad day. |
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protein is a concern without lots of chicken. the local place, take-out buffalo tenders, i have to walk about a mile in total, yeah, we needs this still. i pray they don't go to shit too |
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sorry i'm just liveposting my internal analysis now i'ma stop and out for a walk |
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can´t help picturing her making out with that hot teen delivery guy/gal, sorry no time for pizza... |
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if i worked at a chain, i wouldnt give a fuck |
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I've got 99 problems but pizza ain't one. |
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it's not a chain. they have two or three stores or something and they've been about since the 80's or something |
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then maybe they´ll get back to taking orders |
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no, i think it's just supply chain inflation labor shortage etc. and yeah i pretty much decided to stop ordering food, except for the one take-out italian place that's cheap and i have to walk a bunch, but that's why it's cheap, and.. just bought a bunch of ingredients instead. and, tldr, it's just a bad time to dine out right now. they'll be understaffed, crabby; things won't be fresh. prices will be absurd. i mean i'd already noticed and dialed it down, but recently it really has had the air of "you know what, fuck off" |
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anyways, i don't really have an action item, here. there's no object problem i am looking to solve. i don't have any questions. i merely thot it'd be a deece thred |
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i get that a lot in the news, everybody hiring/needing personnel, food prices going up, but i´ve eaten a lot out these days, spending quite some. because we spent the weekend out of town and celebrated beforehand and i must say i havent noticed anything unusual over here. at all. cant afford going out/ordering in general anyway because home cooking/drinking is cutting costs at least by half, so 5-10% or even 30% price change wouldnt make a difference for me and i havent even seen higher prices yet. from the other perspective, my boss who cooks 500+ kindergarten meals a day, has noticed a price jump in his supplys and frozen goods, but its far from doubling. more like 10% overall. which already pisses him off along with the raise of miniumum wage from 10€ to 12€, because he cannot raise his prices yet due to contracts with the city. but hell still be fine, making money and be able to raise prices not too long aswell. so no harm here neither. but what i have noticed is people ordering food like crazy within the last 3 years. like nonstop. some ordering more than home cooking. neighbours, friends, workplaces, even completely decadent grocery deliveries which also have the same cost explosions and personnel to handle as the restaurants and i find this rather ridiculous. |
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whats a bongard btw? |
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Your best bet is to get a cheese pizza or something simp at the grocery store, buy some fresh produce or meats and spices and top it yourself before throwing it in the oven. Real nice stuff a man can do to a pizza in the privacy of his own home. If you get to any pizza shops, make sure you know who's making your food if you want something good, there's enough people who work in the food service industry that don't care about the quality of what they're serving or haven't learned on it yet. Store pizza is cheap and still supports farmers and shit. Picking out ingredients is fun. Do it with your family or friends. Watch a movie or make a jam or play a game. You like games? I got some games we can play. |
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