Have you ever claimed a free pizza 'cause it didn't arrive on time?

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Dominos used to offer this, 'Get it in 45 minutes or get it Free'. I've never claimed before despite my pizza arriving five, ten minutes late on more than one occasion.

Other fast food outlets offer the same kind of thing. I noticed small print on the back of a Burger King customer service survey once - 'if your server does not offer to Make it Large or ask if you want dessert you are entitled to claim your meal for free'.

Who takes advantage of this?

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 29 December 2005 07:33 (twenty years ago)

yr moms

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 29 December 2005 07:53 (twenty years ago)

oh snap

― phoebe, Thursday, 29 December 2005 08:12 (twenty years ago)

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― oh snap, Thursday, 29 December 2005 08:50 (twenty years ago)

I'm guessing this isn't that common in the UK.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 29 December 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

we have it in the US, but i've always thought it was sort of a cockfarmish thing to do. you're not screwing the company when you do this, you're screwing the individual franchise and its employees.

― born-again christians in the old corral (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 December 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

Exactly - like the free pizza thing - you're sending the poor delivery driver away with no money and he's the one who has to go back and face his boss.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 29 December 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but free pizza, so at least someone's happy!

― melton mowbray (adr), Thursday, 29 December 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

but don't you kinda guarantee that next time yr pizza gets to you double quick time, with special shit'n'spit sauce?

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Thursday, 29 December 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

I had a pizza show up like an hour late from a big chain place once, and I think I got a coupon for a free pizza NEXT TIME, but I never wanted to order from there again.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 29 December 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

I got the wrong pizza from Dominos once and it was about 40 minutes late, however I meekly called them back and told them apologetically what had happened. They eventually sent the right pizza, no charge and very kindly let me keep the stone cold wrong one with the toppings I couldn't eat.

But yeah, I wouldn't normally risk a 'shit n spit' no matter what kind of service I got.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 29 December 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

I thought most places can't do this in the U.S. anymore, 'cause the drivers were getting into accidents and shit.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 29 December 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

Hiro Protagonist to thread.

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Thursday, 29 December 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

IIRC, the first scene of the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie involved them claiming a free pizza because the delivery guy couldn't find them -- because they were under the sewer grate. HAHA!

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Thursday, 29 December 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

I once got a free pizza from Domino's because the delivery man sexually harrassed my friend. (To whit: stared at her breasts, said "I'd like to have those on a pizza" And made a howling noise. Like Connor Smedley. She got him fired because I guess it was the third complaint that week) But I would never claim free pizza or Whoppers.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

Haha!

I did once order a pizza on New Years (or some crazy holiday) that never showed up. I called the next day and got a free hangover pizza.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

"I'd like to have those on a pizza"

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, I'm just marvelling at the complete assitude of saying that about breasts. I mean, pizza on breasts, okay, but disembodied breasts on a pizza? WORSE THAN PINEAPPLE.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Dude, you added the "disembodied" yourself.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

If I were delivering a pizza to the Turtles I wouldn't be late, because I'd know exactly where to find them, but I'd still give it to them for free.

― melton mowbray (adr), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Appropos of nothing: We're calling this economic reciple "pizza Katrina"

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Mike shortcharged the delivery boy for being 3 minutes late, therefore the TMNT only claimed a half-price pizza.

― Hal! Jordan! HAL! JORDAN! (Barima), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

i once claimed my bk meal for free because it took 10 full minutes to prepare, i was in a hurry and a bit drunk. english people put up with shoddy service all the time, and only now are we learning to speak up.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

"I'd like to have those on a pizza"

M'am, did you call for a Big Sausage Pizza?

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

Say, weren't you just here to fix my plumbing?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

My hope is that the delivery guy, having been fired, simply moved to another area of the food industry and incorporated that line into whatever he delivered

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

"I'd like to have those on a generic pharmaceutical!"

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

"Could you sign on the dotted line? I'd like to have THOSE on the dotted line!"

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

"I'd like to have THOSE on this summons to appear!"

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

I worked at Pizza Hut for 3 years during my student days. At the time, Dominos had their '30 minutes or its free' promo going on. Our pizzas were always late. Mostly because our delivery area was huge and we only had about 10 drivers total. The only time a pizza would get to anyone in under 30 minutes was between midnight and 1am or between noon and 2pm on Sundays. 1 1/2 hour waits were pretty standard and most times it would result in:

'What do you mean $19.90?? Isn't it free after 30 minutes?'
'That's Dominos'
'Well, I'm going to order from Dominos from now on'
'OK!'

Do people really think a teenager working for a huge corporation like Pepsi is going to care? Our thing was to give free garlic bread and Mountain Dew to the nice complainers. It was pretty rare to get the pizza free since it involved a call to my manager on their dime.

Delivering pizza was probably the most fun I've ever had working, though. Men seem to have a real thing for pizza delivery girls. Maybe because its a chick showing up at their house with fast food. What more could you ask for, right? I saw more naked men in that three years than I have probably seen in the rest of my adult years combined. Some would just come to the door naked, but mostly it would be the guy at the door's friends pulling his pants down in front of me while his hands were occupied with the pizza box. It was suprising the first couple of times but after that it was more 'So, that's $19.90. You ordered 7Up with that, right?'

Also, I got regulars, which was fun. Guys who would ask for me to deliver to them. They'd always be peeking out the blinds when I pulled up, then I'd hear 'She's here!' when I walked up path and they'd be all nervous and babbling at the door. Great for the teenage ego. They were always good tippers too. One guy used to give me a $50 tip on a $20 order. Sweet stuff.

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 29 December 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Maybe because its a chick showing up at their house with fast food.

note to self

― jody, Thursday, 29 December 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

smedley is in a league of his own thanks

― kephm (kephm), Thursday, 29 December 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

Don't make me post that wolf skull-fucking picture.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 29 December 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

i wonder if he fully appreciates a woman in frilly underwear

― kephm (kephm), Thursday, 29 December 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

pizza show up late? next time it shows up in fancy undies!

― kephm (kephm), Thursday, 29 December 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

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