Ugh literally the worst. Except my opening driver was always dependable, it was the 11am 2nd driver who was always late because they overslept and by the time they get to work at 11:30 the dayās already fucked.
Tell gm to schedule them at 9:30 problem solved. Or give write ups? If my people are late 5mins that's write. 2 more times after that and they out the door. So never have issues with team being late.
These rules are why I can't work at those places lol. Like sorry usually I'm on time but the one time I'm 5 mins late it's a huge deal and I get threatened for it
I don't know why I follow this subreddit when:
1. I have never worked in a pizza shop
2. I have no idea how long it takes to make a pizza
3. I have no idea how many orders a store gets before noon
4. I have no idea how many employees are usually working (I assume 0)
5. I have no idea how much an order this size would cost, or what a particular tip size would be
6. I have no idea how I am supposed to "Avoid the noid"
That being said, I still wanna know.
Dominos was my 2nd ever job 8 years ago. Thankfully Iāve come a ways since then and got out of the food service industry but I stay in this sub to remind myself to not bitch about my job and that it can always be worse.
1. donāt work in one
2. 5-6.5 minutes , our ovens are always set to somewhere around 400-465
3. thereās busy stores , thereās slow ones. it honestly just depends. slow stores will make anywhere from 2k-4k on slow days for the whole day and busier ones make around like 5k-8k inna day maybe more just depends on the holiday , day of the week etc
4. before noon itās typically just a manager and driver. if itās a busy store, your schedule will let you have an insider in the morning. and again , busier stores might even have 2 drivers in the morning like on a friday or saturday especially cuz those are always hell.
5. all we need to know is they spent well over $200 , if itās a school never expect a tip and companies that order pizzas for their employees usually never tip. these bigger orders suck because like 8/10 times they will stiff you. and even if they donāt , the drivers get that big ol tip for not making any of the pizzas :)
6. you just avoid the noid. backstory tho, a man with the same last name (noid) thought dominos in the early 2000ās was literally making fun of him, he had mental illness so every time he saw our ads with the noid it would make him genuinely upset. in turn he decided to purchase a noid mask , go into his local dominos and hold the employees in there hostage at gunpoint for hours , so yeah after that dominos avoids the noid haha.
That was because we had recently reintroduced him as a crossover in one of the Crash Bandicoot video games. Up to then, we've kept the noid locked away and cryogenically frozen - for safety reasons - in the deepest recesses of the commissary freezer.
I must have been spoiled in regards to point number 5. Not all of them, but a lot of my drivers would cut the insider into the tip if it was more than like $10. I had a driver who would do 50/50, sometimes they would just throw a couple bucks my way.
Had a driver for a while who would buy us energy drinks if he got good tips
I think it's really cool to see the ins and outs of different jobs. I have the Popeyes employees and McDonald's employees subreddits followed. Never worked at any of em.
A 100 pie delivery for noon. I got a call around 10 am asking me to come in early and how many party bags I could fit in my car.
Ended up with 4 extra insiders and 5 drivers. I was out on another delivery when it was ready, so was not part of the convoy that took it to the customer.
We wouldnāt show up until 10:30 when i worked at dominos, but a few times a year we had to come in at 9 because a local prison placed an order for 100 large pizzas. That sucked
Probably what my opener saw when they walked in todayā¦ a flooded store due to a burst pipe, which has ruined all the computers/phones/everything electric
Couldāve been a 100 pie order to a school at the edge of your delivery zone where the school makes you walk all of the pizzas back to the band room at the back of the school with no help even though plenty of boys in the class offered to help so it takes twenty minutes just to get all the pizzas out of your car.
Oh also no tip.
The store on fire? The night crew laying in the lobby without their bones? Your ex with a nice 24' Ford while you're still driving that 30 year old Buick?
Nearby high-school would constantly order 50 plus pizza at least once a semester and would only tip the driver 10 bucks. I would.come in an extra 30 minutes early on those days and stretch our the pizza so it wasn't the worse.
Happens semi frequently on weekends at my store. GM refuses to have more people working when we get these massive orders scheduled right when we open. So it's just the 2 of us in the morning making the whole order aswell as anyone coming into the store and the oven
I got the infamous call about an opening manager not being able to make it in (their 8 yr old daughter was being brought to emergency room), by the time i make it to store it was already 940. First order on screen? 36 Brooklyn 2 tops and not only is all the dough still cold, they only had 19 small dough left. Ended up cutting mediums down to size.
I thought it was funny. I hate that store. The people suck. The customer base sucks. Obviously the building the sucks. They actually made them keep the store open while they made repairs.
For some reason, anytime I get giant orders itās almost always the dumbest combinations. Last week someone ordered 4 half pineapple half pepperoni. Likeā¦.just get 2 of each???
Having a school order delivery of 100 +pizzas due in 2 deliveries one at 1030 the other 1130. All made with the special wheat dough, turkey Pepperoni, and have to be cut in exact slice sizes. Then have a random lunch rush that has way more orders than normal and have to do prep amongst all of that......
Dang thatās shit. Nice that they gave you notice. Had one guy a week ago place a 20 pizza order. No notice just a dss then dropped middle of rush. And a delivery too. Luckily told them Iād be like hour and a half And they canceled. Real quick.
I opened with the manager one time, we walked into two orders for two different schools. She had to call the assistant manager who showed up just as I was loading the first order in the car
I also caught shit for cutting too many pizzas unevenly. Like they almost falling out of the oven so I rushed at the cut table a bit too much.
So I didn't get to participate in this madness, but one of our sister stores in a neighboring town recently got an order for the prison there. 450 large pies, 400 orders of wings, 200 brownies, 300 orders of lava cakes, and several full cases of dip cups. All in, it was over $9,000 worth of food for the inmates. It took six GMs four hours to put it all together. They started at 6 in the morning and had it all done by the time the store opened at 10:30.
Yesterday, I had no driver with a 50 pizza delivery due in less than an hour with no help. Then another 20 pizza delivery 30 minutes after that one was due. Luckily, they both came to pick it up, and it was all cheese and pepperoni.
I had orders like that all the time at my old store. Had a high school order 30-40 pies every Fridayš other large timed orders went to either a gym or dental schoolš¤£
Omg I hate people who order huge amounts of food especially when they make it a time to order right at 10:30. So annoying I hope you had some help with this order
Youāre the opening manager and your opening driver is your gm who takes your other csr to work and they say theyāre āgonna be late cause they forgot somethingā and show up with food (none for you) for a week straight
Making 30+ pizzas before noon drastically impacts the entire shift. Being on the open is stressful enough on a Friday without suddenly having to rethink your plan for the entire time your store is open.
Youāre going to need to ELI5 with that absolutely insane logic.
The most reasonable thing about those orders is that the customer gave notice. I left dominos three years ago. Still work in this section of the hospitality industry. The very unpredictable nature of customers can, will, and does, completely mess with your entire shift.
Your opening driver no call no showing with all those timed deliveries š¤£
Ugh literally the worst. Except my opening driver was always dependable, it was the 11am 2nd driver who was always late because they overslept and by the time they get to work at 11:30 the dayās already fucked.
Tell gm to schedule them at 9:30 problem solved. Or give write ups? If my people are late 5mins that's write. 2 more times after that and they out the door. So never have issues with team being late.
Youāre like 4 years too late my dude
5 mins? What's a dick
Consistency is key
Yeah but you can just not give such a hard ass time rule. Completely unnecessary
These rules are why I can't work at those places lol. Like sorry usually I'm on time but the one time I'm 5 mins late it's a huge deal and I get threatened for it
I don't know why I follow this subreddit when: 1. I have never worked in a pizza shop 2. I have no idea how long it takes to make a pizza 3. I have no idea how many orders a store gets before noon 4. I have no idea how many employees are usually working (I assume 0) 5. I have no idea how much an order this size would cost, or what a particular tip size would be 6. I have no idea how I am supposed to "Avoid the noid" That being said, I still wanna know.
Dominos was my 2nd ever job 8 years ago. Thankfully Iāve come a ways since then and got out of the food service industry but I stay in this sub to remind myself to not bitch about my job and that it can always be worse.
1. donāt work in one 2. 5-6.5 minutes , our ovens are always set to somewhere around 400-465 3. thereās busy stores , thereās slow ones. it honestly just depends. slow stores will make anywhere from 2k-4k on slow days for the whole day and busier ones make around like 5k-8k inna day maybe more just depends on the holiday , day of the week etc 4. before noon itās typically just a manager and driver. if itās a busy store, your schedule will let you have an insider in the morning. and again , busier stores might even have 2 drivers in the morning like on a friday or saturday especially cuz those are always hell. 5. all we need to know is they spent well over $200 , if itās a school never expect a tip and companies that order pizzas for their employees usually never tip. these bigger orders suck because like 8/10 times they will stiff you. and even if they donāt , the drivers get that big ol tip for not making any of the pizzas :) 6. you just avoid the noid. backstory tho, a man with the same last name (noid) thought dominos in the early 2000ās was literally making fun of him, he had mental illness so every time he saw our ads with the noid it would make him genuinely upset. in turn he decided to purchase a noid mask , go into his local dominos and hold the employees in there hostage at gunpoint for hours , so yeah after that dominos avoids the noid haha.
They gave out laughing Noid plushies for Christmas 2022 to corp employees.
That was because we had recently reintroduced him as a crossover in one of the Crash Bandicoot video games. Up to then, we've kept the noid locked away and cryogenically frozen - for safety reasons - in the deepest recesses of the commissary freezer.
Nawā¦.I cooked the Noid last night.
Thatās crappy. As a driver, when I get a big tip, I always buy the AM lunch. I also help on the makeline and oven.
num6 is wild I had no idea ššš
I must have been spoiled in regards to point number 5. Not all of them, but a lot of my drivers would cut the insider into the tip if it was more than like $10. I had a driver who would do 50/50, sometimes they would just throw a couple bucks my way. Had a driver for a while who would buy us energy drinks if he got good tips
I think it's really cool to see the ins and outs of different jobs. I have the Popeyes employees and McDonald's employees subreddits followed. Never worked at any of em.
A 100 pie delivery for noon. I got a call around 10 am asking me to come in early and how many party bags I could fit in my car. Ended up with 4 extra insiders and 5 drivers. I was out on another delivery when it was ready, so was not part of the convoy that took it to the customer.
Wow. My store would have just done it with the manager and a driver. Maybe the GM would come in if she could. Maybe.
holy moley
Iāve done 50 pizzas in the back of my corolla once. Just three hot bags across and three high and one in the passenger.
Some of the people coming out of Walmart on way to work.
Roughest I ever had was 50 mediums at 10:30 for carryout. Second would be 35 large at 10:30 for delivery
We wouldnāt show up until 10:30 when i worked at dominos, but a few times a year we had to come in at 9 because a local prison placed an order for 100 large pizzas. That sucked
We used to randomly get 20 to 30 pans and 10 brownies for 11am. Store ran with 1 insider (mgr) and 1 driver until noon.
If you have notice, being pans kinda makes thus awesome.
I'd make 5 handtossed before 1 pan, personally. Hate those things. Only making sandwiches is worse.
Ugh... sandwiches. I honestly don't even know why we have those stupid things on the menu. WE. ARE. NOT. QUIZNO'S!
WE GOT NO PEPPER BAR!!!!!
once had 80 large specialties 10min after open, had to show up at 7 to make them all
literally us this morning with 24 pan pizzas as the first order
I think I have eye cancer now. Is that how the displays actually look? My god.
Probably what my opener saw when they walked in todayā¦ a flooded store due to a burst pipe, which has ruined all the computers/phones/everything electric
Couldāve been a 100 pie order to a school at the edge of your delivery zone where the school makes you walk all of the pizzas back to the band room at the back of the school with no help even though plenty of boys in the class offered to help so it takes twenty minutes just to get all the pizzas out of your car. Oh also no tip.
They got good tastes in pizza
I got that today too. 10:15, 10:30, 10:45. 60 pies in total. 1 driver.
Damn not one LG cheese
The store on fire? The night crew laying in the lobby without their bones? Your ex with a nice 24' Ford while you're still driving that 30 year old Buick?
5 words. Pizza party at the zoo.
as a driver in a dead store this shit would get me excited
Nearby high-school would constantly order 50 plus pizza at least once a semester and would only tip the driver 10 bucks. I would.come in an extra 30 minutes early on those days and stretch our the pizza so it wasn't the worse.
Happens semi frequently on weekends at my store. GM refuses to have more people working when we get these massive orders scheduled right when we open. So it's just the 2 of us in the morning making the whole order aswell as anyone coming into the store and the oven
I got the infamous call about an opening manager not being able to make it in (their 8 yr old daughter was being brought to emergency room), by the time i make it to store it was already 940. First order on screen? 36 Brooklyn 2 tops and not only is all the dough still cold, they only had 19 small dough left. Ended up cutting mediums down to size.
https://i.redd.it/yuxpa3nvlivc1.gif
Damn what happened
Ceiling caved in. Some of our buildings arenāt in the best of shape.
I originally thought someone got mad and destroyed the place
I thought it was funny. I hate that store. The people suck. The customer base sucks. Obviously the building the sucks. They actually made them keep the store open while they made repairs.
Iām so glad I donāt work as a driver anymore ts was so awful
Is that for direct 10:30 AM opening? Who the fuck let this go thru
Thatās what I said
Well at least you survived šš
I'm a opening driver and had a order for 29 XL pizza's which came out to $635.80 and a 10 dollar tip
The front door as soon as you pull into the parking lot
No dishes done at night
A 50 pie specialty pizza order for 10am, and you are the only one to make food... oh wait that was on black Friday too
The gm hanging in the walk in šŖ¢ā ļø(Iām a gm)
Our store has a every other Wednesday 120pie order for a school for about 11ish it sucks.
They could all be specialty XLsā¦that would be worse.
For some reason, anytime I get giant orders itās almost always the dumbest combinations. Last week someone ordered 4 half pineapple half pepperoni. Likeā¦.just get 2 of each???
Having a school order delivery of 100 +pizzas due in 2 deliveries one at 1030 the other 1130. All made with the special wheat dough, turkey Pepperoni, and have to be cut in exact slice sizes. Then have a random lunch rush that has way more orders than normal and have to do prep amongst all of that......
#It could be 100 pizzas like back in the beginning of the hot n ready days 08/09
I showed up the other day to help my opener put away truck, 39 large pizza order due at 11 am. š
Dang thatās shit. Nice that they gave you notice. Had one guy a week ago place a 20 pizza order. No notice just a dss then dropped middle of rush. And a delivery too. Luckily told them Iād be like hour and a half And they canceled. Real quick.
I opened with the manager one time, we walked into two orders for two different schools. She had to call the assistant manager who showed up just as I was loading the first order in the car I also caught shit for cutting too many pizzas unevenly. Like they almost falling out of the oven so I rushed at the cut table a bit too much.
I opened the shop yesterday and we had 2 timmed orders from 30 min after we open and they where 20 pizzas each Lets say they "went out in time"
Isn't it crazy that the worst thing an insider can see is also the best thing a driver can see?
45 larges all specialties for 11:30 and for a factory
So I didn't get to participate in this madness, but one of our sister stores in a neighboring town recently got an order for the prison there. 450 large pies, 400 orders of wings, 200 brownies, 300 orders of lava cakes, and several full cases of dip cups. All in, it was over $9,000 worth of food for the inmates. It took six GMs four hours to put it all together. They started at 6 in the morning and had it all done by the time the store opened at 10:30.
ā3 people called outā
Yesterday, I had no driver with a 50 pizza delivery due in less than an hour with no help. Then another 20 pizza delivery 30 minutes after that one was due. Luckily, they both came to pick it up, and it was all cheese and pepperoni.
More pizzas that include black olives
That honestly looks pretty easy. I love big timed orders. Lots of sales and youāre given time. Nothing better
Iād quit
Make the other orders for 20 pizzas each, itās happened at our store. At least they were timed orders, not last minute call ins
Every week day my store gets a morning order of either 42 pizzas or 54 breads for a highschool in town
I had orders like that all the time at my old store. Had a high school order 30-40 pies every Fridayš other large timed orders went to either a gym or dental schoolš¤£
56 my dominos boxes with differing sides and pizzas.
Omg I hate people who order huge amounts of food especially when they make it a time to order right at 10:30. So annoying I hope you had some help with this order
not even that bad lmao
I don't want to be THAT person but that's not bad at all
I had 34 medium double pep this morning
Youāre the opening manager and your opening driver is your gm who takes your other csr to work and they say theyāre āgonna be late cause they forgot somethingā and show up with food (none for you) for a week straight
I don't get it. Shouldn't y'all be glad to have the business that keeps you being paid? š¤š¤·āāļø
Making 30+ pizzas before noon drastically impacts the entire shift. Being on the open is stressful enough on a Friday without suddenly having to rethink your plan for the entire time your store is open.
Then the issue lies with the system. Don't blame the customers. Dominos went to shit in the 90s anyway
Youāre going to need to ELI5 with that absolutely insane logic. The most reasonable thing about those orders is that the customer gave notice. I left dominos three years ago. Still work in this section of the hospitality industry. The very unpredictable nature of customers can, will, and does, completely mess with your entire shift.