Critiquing a food delivery during a pandemic seems like an ultimate "First World Problem", but I'll be fair and balanced and give People's Choice credit for the things they did exceptionally well. We ordered a ton of stuff for delivery today to get us through the weekend, $64 dollars worth (including tip) to be exact. For that $64 we got a medium pizza, eight wings, a Chef Salad, a whole ham and cheese grinder, a side of curly fries, and a whole Italian Combo grinder.
Things That Went Really Well
1) Their delivery website rocks! It is super easy to use and lets you customize things to the nth degree. As an example, you can deselect anything on their list of "standard" grinder toppings, add on a big choice of extra toppings, and even select hot or cold as an option.
2) Besides food, they also deliver a big variety of grocery items and household goods at fair prices. So if you need TP, paper towels, vinyl gloves, sanitizing wipes, milk, eggs, ground beef, or even beer and canned cocktails, Peoples Choice can hook you up.
3) Their website said the food would be here in 30 minutes, and sonuva gun, they were right on time.
4) Their delivery menu has a terrific variety of options starting with starters or sides like skins, fries, and rings, lots of salads, pasta or seafood dinners, two kinds of pizza (Original Pan or NY thin crust), calzones, strombolis, wings, chicken sandwiches, burgers, cheese-steaks, and quite a few wraps and grinders. That's a pretty deep menu.
5) Their Chef Salad was excellent! The medium size for $8.75 was plenty for two to share and included very generous portions of good roast beef and turkey over lettuce, tomato, green pepper, cukes and cheese.
6) Our Whole size Grinders were big, and it was cool to see that they even had a bigger size named Giant! They ran $8.75 for the Ham and Cheese and $11 for the Italian (I added on some options). We had half of each grinder for lunch, and the other half is set for tomorrow. They were massive portions and a pretty good value.
Things With Improvement Opportunities
1) We ordered from People's Choice because they popped a flyer in our mailbox 3 days ago. The flyer included a code (DM7445) that was supposed to apply a $5 discount if you ordered before August 31, 2020. When I ordered, the discount code was rejected, so I went without it and made a comment in the general comments field. It yielded no reply in my order, no peace offering, it was just ignored. That was disappointing.
2) Our NY Style medium hamburger pizza was kind of average. The crust was OK, but the sauce and cheese were inferior to so many other local sources.
3) Particularly galling was the sliced hot pepper on my grinder that included a big hard stem. https://www.yelp.com/user_local_photos?select=FHITocHWx9Yjt6qrKgTM1w&userid=cVrM2BvOvPV0Vi_rC8kepQ How anyone could have the indifference to put this on a sandwich is beyond me.
4) Our side of curly fries was a hefty $3.75 for the very small portion we received.
5) The ham on my Italian grinder just wasn't very good. It was tough and a bit stringy, definitely low on the old quality meter, which is bizarre because the roast beef and turkey in our salad were excellent. read more