I ordered 2 medium pizzas using the Dominos App because I realized I needed groceries and they weren't going to be delivered until late in the evening. I contemplated adding a frozen pizza to my groceries and decided they'd get here too late and Dominos would be faster -- that was my first mistake.
When I placed the order it said the wait time was expected to be 23-27 mins. After I received the email confirmation, the ETA was updated to 31-36 mins. Totally fine. I watched the tracker. 30 mins later, it told me the pizza was out of the oven for a "quality check", cool, I should be getting my order soon, right?
Not so much. 40 mins later I called the store to ask where my pizza was. The poor girl on the phone said it would be delivered in 5 mins and I could tell she was nervous about a confrontation. I am a Director of Customer Success (in a tech role) myself, so I understand what it's like working with rude customers and that's not how I interact with service workers. I attempted to kindly explain my frustration, but she kept interrupting me during that explanation (within 10 seconds of starting to talk) to try ti tell me how busy they are. Finally, when I finished, she said "well your driver will be there in 5 mins, like I said we're very busy." I said, "okay, but my order has been out of the oven for 40 mins and it's gonna be cold, so what can you do to make up for that delay?"
She passed me off to the manager. The manager, Cameron, was obviously disgruntled as soon as he answered the phone. No positive customer service tone, no apologetic attitude, no offer to make up the issue. I explained the issue again and he said "well since you placed your order on a 3rd party app we have no control over that stuff so there's not much I can do."
It's the Dominos brand app, whether they're a franchise or not, that does not meet the definition of "3rd party app". Anyway, I basically had to beg for an offer of a $10 credit, which turned into $5 because I already had $25 on my account from 2023 and he made up some BS about how he couldn't add it to the existing credit. Guess I should have learned my lesson in 2023, because this is the worst customer service I've experienced from a food service here in Tooele.
The food arrived cold and tasteless after the driver wandered around our neighborhood for 5 mins and said he couldn't find the house because we don't have a number...it's on the curb. We've never had an issue with delivery service in the past finding our home and we've lived here 5 yrs.
I'll take my business elsewhere in the future. If I were this franchise owner, I'd be seriously reconsidering my business model and employees. read more