After moving to the area in December, we started ordering from Marco's regularly. It was the perfect compromise between someone who likes Pizza Hut (me) and someone who likes Papa John's (husband). The pizza was tasty, had an enjoyable crust, and the salads were good too. We were ordering delivery from here once every week or two, either online or over the phone, and had been quite satisfied.
But Thursday night was the last time we will be ordering delivery from Marco's. We placed our order online at 6:30pm and given an estimated delivery time of 30 minutes, as always. They had never had a problem with the 30 minute timing in the past; we live 2 miles from Marco's.
At 7:45, we were still waiting, so I gave them a call.
"I'm sorry, but we've been waiting for our pizza for over an hour, and I want to make sure our order wasn't lost."
The lady on the phone asked who we were -- "Jones or Amanda?"
"Amanda..." Okay, so there were only two of us that had been waiting this long.
"Yes ma'am, it'll be there soon, we've been very busy." No "sorry."
At 8:25, my husband, hungry and outraged, called and cancelled the order, because at almost two hours, no pizza had arrived. The person on the phone this time offered no explanation or apology, and just said he'd "take care of it."
At 8:50, the doorbell rings.
I had just thrown dinner together, and my husband was too angry to answer the door, so I politely explained to the delivery person that it had been two hours and twenty minutes, at this point, and we had cancelled the order 30 minutes ago. (Meaning that the pizza had been sitting in his car at least that long--it was cold when it got to us.) I told him I was sorry, but he could keep the pizza because we wouldn't be paying for it.
Even the driver seemed upset at this point, and he checked his phone--no one at the store had bothered to call him to tell him not to deliver the pizza! He apologized profusely, explaining that they only had two drivers working that night, and told me to keep the pizza, saying that if his manager wasn't okay with that, he'd pay for it himself. (Now THAT is service, folks.)
So, in summary: the drivers are doing the best they can, and the cooks are good, but the management is awful. At some point in those two and a half hours, they should have been able to call in more people to come to work. Heck, if the manager really cared, he could have driven the pizza to us himself--it would have taken 5 minutes. Furthermore, the woman on the phone knew that we were one of two households that had been waiting over an hour--so why wouldn't we have gotten top priority? We live TWO MILES from Marco's, and we ordered ONE PIZZA. We could have driven to the Publix next door, bought some dough, and made it ourselves twice in that time.
Also: the charge is still appearing on our card; we may have to make some phone calls to get it cleared, because they don't appear to have cancelled it. Good grief.
The next time we want pizza, I don't know who we'll call, but it won't be Marco's. read more