**WARNING DO NOT VISIT JIMMY JOHNS WENTZVILLE**
So, I've waited awhile to post this because I was giving the owners the chance to make it right. But obviously, that didn't happen. Sorry in advance for the long review/rant but I feel compelled to warn anyone willing to listen, especially women, not to give patronage to Jimmy Johns in Wentzville.
So a week ago, Jimmy Johns messed up our order on two separate occasions. Mistakes happen, it was under new management, and we understood, but really, we just wanted our money refunded. The manager did apologize and told us to return to the store with our receipt for a refund. So, I go by the store with my receipt and ask for the refund. This is where the whole event turns atrocious and unbelievable. (I just want to note here that we paid for things that they forgot to put into our bag. It's not like we were dissatisfied with the food. We paid for things we didn't get from them.)
The supervisor/team leader tells me she cannot refund my money, so I tell her she needs to contact the manager who said she would. She calls the manager then proceeds to tell me the manager says we can't get our money back. So I call my husband and children in from the car and tell my husband what's going on. My husband asks the supervisor what's wrong. She says she can't refund our money. My husband tells her she needs to re-contact the manager to explain we brought the receipt, that we need our refund. The supervisor then indicates the manager or owner was coming to the store to refund our money. My husband says that's all we wanted and said we would wait for them to arrive.
My husband took the kids and sat in a corner booth while we waited. When the manager shows up, she tells two customers she was sorry she was out of uniform but that I MADE her come in on her off-day to refund my money. I laughed quietly at her attempt to shame me. Then, a man who was infringing on my space says, "Do you think this is funny?" I said, "No, not at all, I'm sad that this has escalated to this." He says, "You think it's funny you almost made this girl [the supervisor/team leader] cry." I said, "I'm sorry, I wasn't intending for anyone to cry." The manager then says, "Don't apologize to me, apologize to her [the supervisor]. You almost made her cry on her first day." I apologized and said I didn't realize it was her first day but I was frustrated she wasn't going to refund my money. The man then says, "You don't need to be talking badly about the manager either behind her back." He continues to step closer to me in an attempt to intimidate, wanting to know where I worked. Unbeknownst to the man, my husband was making his way up to the counter to intercept our conversation. He continued to berate me when my husband stepped between us and informed him he was NEVER to speak disrespectfully to a woman, especially his wife. My husband told the man if he had something to say, he could say to him.
Now my husband thought this was a delivery driver because he stood next to the counter and arrived when the manager did. So the man told my husband "we need to take this outside." My husband walks outside and the man keeps walking away. My husband asked where the man was going and he yells, "To my truck." My husband came back into the store and asked the manager who the man was. The manager says, "My husband." My husband asks if he was an employee or owner and the manager said he was NOT. My husband becomes furious and scolds the manager about her husband, not an employee, talking to a customer especially in a disrespectful manner. The man walks back into the store and yells at my husband, "You don't talk to my wife!" My husband informs the man his wife was the manager and she was at her place of business. The man walks towards my husband in a threatening manner (not aware my husband was a police officer), and the manager yells at him to leave the store. He tells her he's going to wait for us to leave the store.
My husband immediately asked the manager for her name and the corporate number. The manager asks my husband not to contact the corporate office because "it would be bad" for the business. After finally refunding our money, the manager tells me and my husband, "Take your money and don't ever come back." The OWNERS of this store were apologetic, but chose to give their manager, Krista, a second chance and "banned" her husband from the store. For our safety, and for yours if an error is made, we strongly advise you don't go to this location in Wentzville. My three children had to watch a grown man try to fight a woman and her husband. It was a scene out of the twilight zone. read more