The service for this location has dropped dramatically since we have lived in Plymouth, and while the last year has been tough for everyone, when multiple locations of one of your favorite companies close all around you, you hope that those still remaining would be filled with people trying to keep a high standard. This past Friday, I ordered food and dessert online for my wife to bring home after a shopping trip. Sadly, due to extreme negligence, our food got cold after the difficulty she had picking up a simple half gallon of custom ice cream.
When she showed up, she asked for the order under her name, and the confusion began. The order was due to be ready at 7:37 according to the email we received, and when she showed up at 7:50 it still wasn't ready. In fact, that's when the chaos started as the workers seemingly couldn't find the order at all. Instead of following it up with profuse apologies or any sense of urgency, they instead continued to fool around joking with one another and other customers (a group of teenaged boys).
At first, they seemed to almost blame each other saying that they may have given our order to another online pick up. Then, my wife quickly said it may have been under my name and when they looked, still could not find it amongst the other online orders in the freezer and others being made. They were quick to try to give an excuse that the printer never printed the order, yet by our count, they had at least 4 other online orders that they were referencing. It seemed unlikely that the printer was to blame if it worked perfectly fine for those other customers.
Then, when my wife showed them the online receipt, she explained the order and started to tell the person about the add-ons we had paid for (3 cookie dough, 2 caramel, and substitute cake batter ice cream). The person then cut her off saying, "I know, I know," when clearly it was a customized order (literally the concept of the company). He thought he would just roll with it saying "I got you, I got you." After starting to make the ice cream (all while joking around with the other customers), he asked "so cookie dough....what was the other thing?" She replied 3 cookie dough and 2 caramel. "Oh yeah, yeah I got it." Clearly he didn't. Our dinner was now in the car cold and she barely got a "sorry bout that" as he passed the half gallon of ice cream to her.
Later that night, my wife began to scoop this treat for us and our boys, and we were even more angered to find a small amount of cookie dough and one whole peanut butter cup when the ice cream itself was suppose to be filled with pieces of the candy as it was described to feed "everybody"
To finalize this experience, when I called the next day to complain about the issue to the manager, the shift leader went on to tell me how there is no manager. While my experience was quick to be cut off by the person on the phone with a quick claim of, "I will definitely address this" they seemed ready to hang up but didn't bother to gather any information about the order, the time or what we purchased. I quickly stopped and asked if there was any options to earn back our trust and offer any discounts for future purchases or some type of refund for the $20 half gallon of ice cream that left us all disappointed. She said she had no power to offer any type of compensation, and then referenced an email she could provide to send in a complaint. After she kept me on hold for over 5 minutes, she came back on giggling and simply tried to guide me on how to write a complaint through their website. The explanation came with no true attempt of making me aware this was through the website and she simply said, "I Don really know how to do this, I have never complained about this company." I am thoroughly disappointed with how downhill this company has gone, especially this locations and whatever they seem to do to manage this team. read more