I've had the worst experience of my eating out LIFE, here.
So I'll start at the start, and explain why you should NEVER eat at this particular Jimmy Johns, or, in my opinion, ANY Jimmy Johns, because of their lack of customer service.
I've been ordering subs from them for about two months now, and all-in-all, they've gone smoothly.
Yesterday, I placed a VERY simple order:
2 subs
2 chips
2 drinks
To be delivered to my home. I waited...and waited...and waited, until an hour after my order had been placed, then finally decided to call them. An hour for two sandwiches? Ummmm, that's a tad ridiculous. So I called, and spoke to a young (sounding) girl with an accent, and told her the minor dilemma I was facing and asked if the order was in transit. Apparently this was too difficult of a job for her to answer, because she asked if she could place me on hold. It wasn't a big deal to me to be placed on hold, so I agreed.
Keep in mind that at this point, I was merely agitated that my food hadn't arrived. It's not that big of a deal. I just wanted to know where the food was.
She kept me on hold for about five minutes, and then a man picked up and said, "Jimmy Johns..."
Then I said,
".....Hi, I just spoke to a girl and told her my issue. Did she relay that information to you?"
He said,
"...No, she didn't. How can I help you?"
So I told him the story, AGAIN and I was asked, AGAIN, to be placed on hold because they couldn't find my order. I then told them that I had a confirmation number, and a receipt of them taking $14.00 out of my bank account. So I gave him the number, and was, AGAIN, placed on hold.
Ten minutes passes, and by this time, I'm starting to get mad. Not one person has apologized, and not one person has come back on the phone to tell me that they were "terribly sorry, and that they were trying to figure out what happened."
*this is what you should do if you want to keep customers*
Finally, right before I hung up, just to call them back, the first girl picked up the phone, only to say, "you made this order to be placed tomorrow." I said, "no, I have a receipt that says it's to be sent to me, tonight. She literally, as if I haven't said this to someone in that Jimmy Johns within the last ten minutes, asked if I had a tracking number. I gave it to her again, and she said the same thing. That it will be sent out tomorrow.
By this time, I was over talking to anyone at this establishment. I said, "I just want my money back. Two sandwiches and $14.00 isn't worth this."
She hesitated, and fumbled around, and said, "so...you don't want the sandwiches?"
I said, "no".
She, again, sounded quite confused and said, "so you want your money back, and DON'T want the sandwiches?"
"YES!" I said. "I want my money back and do not wish to receive any sandwich from you. Just let me talk to a manager and get my money back."
She said, "You're going to have to wait till tomorrow when the manager comes in. I can't give you your money back."
I'm livid by now. No apologies. No consolation offers. No respect. AND NOW, NO MONEY BACK UNTIL A MANAGER, (who should be on duty at all hours of the day) COMES IN, TOMORROW!
OUTRAGEOUS!
"There's no manager there?!" I asked.
"No." She responded.
Give me the owners number, please." I asked her.
She did, and I hung up the phone."
I would wait until tomorrow to speak to a manager, but at the very least, I was going to give the owner a call to tell them how bad the service was. I figured the number would send me to an automated system for customer ratings. It didn't, and my issues with Jimmy Johns JUST BEGAN.
I called the number, and a girl answered. It sounded like she was at a party because I heard laughing and talking in the background. I asked if this was the owner of Jimmy Johns, off 64th. She said, "no, I'm the general manager at Jimmy Johns..."
WHAT?! You mean to tell me that after all that, the chick at the restaurant gave me a private number to a manager that isn't even on duty, when I asked for the owners number?!
Frustrated beyond belief, I figured I had her on the phone so I'd tell her what I thought. She, at first, was laughing with her friends as I was speaking, so I said, "am I bothering you? Your staff GAVE ME this number." She then became SUUUUUPER professional and talked me down. She said that she had been on the phone with the girl at the restaurant for ten minutes, (the same ten minutes I spent on hold) explaining how to find my order, and void it, so that I'd get my money back. She also informed me that the incompetent girl whom I spoke to earlier WAS a manager. I laughed and told her that she said, "no manager was available." Anyhow, this GM told me that she'd be in at 5:00am tomorrow, and she would fix the problem, ASAP. She said a couple of apologies but nothing to spectacular. I figured if I get my money back by tomorrow, it's not gonna be a big deal.
Long story short, it didn't go through, and she's "fixing" it.
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