Order #665473280
Date: Sunday, December 19th, 2021
I'll start off saying that I'm an extremely patient person, but the "service" I just experienced at this Nanuet, NY location is the worst I have ever had in my life. I'd highly recommend ordering from another Panera location or choosing an entirely different option in the Nanuet area. For a detailed account of my experience, continue reading below:
-I was coming back from a weekly gymnastics class at Tumble Bee with my 2 year old daughter and wanted to bring home some food without getting her out of the car seat and to avoid going inside as a Covid precaution.
-I placed a mobile order for Curbside pickup at 2:04pm and arrived, parked, turned on my flashing blinkers, and clicked "I'm here" at 2:10pm, although my order initially said that it wouldn't be ready until 2:14pm. I thought, that's great, it's done early...
-The order instantly said "Your order is ready!" and informed me to wait in my car and that "We'll find you outside. We'll bring your order to you shortly!"
-At 2:35pm, I was getting concerned and decided to call the store, but there was no answer and it just continued to ring until eventually disconnecting.
-I eventually reached an employee on the 3rd call at 2:39pm where I asked about the status of my order to see if it had been misplaced. The employee said "I'm not sure but I'll check on that" and immediately hung up on me.
-I was a bit confused but hopeful something would come out soon, but after 10 more minutes and after having seen many of the same faces leaving with the remnants of their meals that I had noticed arrived well after me, I decided to go inside and ask what was going on.
-So at 2:50, I entered the store (after waking my hungry 2 year old who had fallen asleep while waiting over 40 minutes). I walked to the gap between the counters and asked respectfully, but obviously very irritated, again, about the status of my order to the employee at the register (which I'm pretty sure was the one who had initially answered the phone from the similarity of the voices).
-He looked around for a 2-3 minutes or so and found the bag among 4-5 others on the counter behind him and said he didn't know why it didn't go out yet. He then started to get together the drinks that should have been with the order when I overheard another customer come in similarly saying that she had been waiting in her car for 20 minutes before coming in, and it was at that point when I decided to just cancel my entire order and demand a refund.
-The employee sighed and called down towards the kitchen area where most food was being prepared and asked for "Maurice".
-After patiently waiting for approximately 10 more minutes, I asked to speak with the manager. About 5 minutes after that, an employee in a blue shirt approached and asked what I needed and I asked her if she was the manager. She confirmed that she was the manager when I asked her directly. I then asked her if I could have a refund and be compensated for my wasted time which was nearly an hour at this point. She said she did do the refund, but couldn't do anything else.
-I thought that was ridiculous and asked if I could have a corporate complaint phone number or the name and phone number of her superior. She said she didn't have the corporate number and that I should Google it. When I asked again about the name and number of someone above her, she said to speak with "Rose" tomorrow morning after 9am. I asked if I could get that name written down and she wrote "Rosemayra, 9:00am, tomorrow" on a cookie/pastry wrapper and handed it to me and walked away. I took it and then thought to get her name and the name of the original employee that I had spoken too. I asked that first employee to write his name and he put "Andero" which matched his nametag and then I asked him to write the name of the lady helping me at which point he wrote "Theone" (unsure of spelling of both names, but it looks like that on the paper).
-I was obviously confused at this point, because while waiting, I was told by several employees that they were trying to get the manager who was named "Maurice" and that was very clearly not the same person that I spoke to.
-By now, it was around 3:20 and I again demanded to see the real manager named Maurice. I was continually told that he was in the back and busy and would be able to come soon.
-While waiting, another employee went to check and see why Maurice wasn't coming and came back to tell me that Maurice said he had already talked to me. I said that was a blatant lie and that I did talk to someone else, but not Maurice and I wanted to speak with him about the matter.
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