I can often overlook mediocre food for great service. I most definitely cannot overlook look any food for bad service.
I am so incredibly disappointed with my overall experience here. While I have had Pizza Hut deliver to my place several times before, it was a mediocre experience. Nice delivery guy or girl. Okay food (even better because I didn't have to cook or go pick it up). That was until the last time I ordered something.
First, when the delivery person arrived (very young man - looked to be 18-19 years old), he had not parked in my driveway but in my yard where we just planted and started sprouting new grass. He hands me the receipt, I add the tip and signed. We exchange the receipt with food. I immediately asked if he also had the sauces we ordered. He said they should be in with the food. I wanted to check before he left. When I opened up our chicken wings, I noticed that not only was our sauces not included but we were 1/2 short on our order. I let him know and his response was, "they were supposed to put them in there I don't know." I let him know I still wanted the sauces and the rest of my order, as I paid for them. As he continues to walk to his car while speaking to me says, "Oh your whole order isn't there, well what did you order?"He continues to say something along the lines of, "I'll talk to them when I get there and I'm sure you'll get a discount". I had to confirm he was coming back with my order, as he had never said so.
By this time, I did not have a ton of confidence in the situation, so I called Pizza Hut (Edmonds). After trying to get ahold of someone at Pizza Hut for almost 10 minutes (at one time, someone answered the phone and put it on the counter), I got to an answering service for orders, and they transferred me to someone that never identified herself. I told the female on the phone that I had been trying to reach them for 10 minutes and am a bit frustrate since only 1/2 my order arrived and the delivery person didn't seam to know what I ordered or received. Her response to me, "oh, I just got in, I am not aware of anything. We can send him back with your food when he gets here if you like.." At this point she was ready to hang up the phone. I was astounded with her lack responsibility or care for a customer. She didn't ask my name, offer to check on the rest of the order, apologize - nada. She only seemed concerned with getting me off the phone as quickly as possible.
I let her know that while I was a frustrated with the situation, it was mostly with the fact that no one has apologized or seems to care. Of course I wanted the rest of my food, it had already been paid for. With that said, it's further disappointing as our food will be cold by the time our complete meal arrives. Her response was, "you can eat the food you have until your other food arrives, then it won't be cold." WOW. While that is excellent logic, and one I am sure I would never have thought of on my own, we only ordered enough food to feed the proper people. Certainly I could have done this, but then we would not get to eat together, instead one of us would eat now and the other when the rest of the order arrives.
I did ask to speak with someone else after this comment. Apparently there is no one else, she is the manager. I let her know that we would not be dining or ordering Pizza Hut moving forward.
The rest of the order arrived,(wings and two sauces) 40 minutes later with a note reading "I hope you enjoy your sauces, Pizza Hut Manager"
So sad that something so small was handled in such a childish way. I did not want anything free. With that said, Courtesy and Customer Service goes a long way....let me check on that or I apologize for the inconvenience. read more