Ok, I finally tried the place I see all the time. Here's the follow up:
1) phone order lady was rude and was annoyed I needed guidance on size ordering for our party size. Really acting like it was super busy in there and I was some lame- o, wasting her time. News flashy- I was in the parking lot making the order so I can see you have no customers in there right now. Your just being a rude lady.
2) I explain this is my first time eating at the establishment and it why I'm ignorant could you explain some items to me please. She finally gets it then goes on to recommend I need 3x the amount of pizza I actually do. Which I foolishly order. I ask her one more question but she hangs up on me mid sentence. I have to call back and go through it all again.
3) When I move from one side of parkin lot to other (I was shopping at nearby stores) I notice the girl who works behind the counter open the large trash bin in front of the storefront and rummages around in it, looking for something in it. No gloves- sweatshirt arms touching inside the trash canister. She sees there is someone in a car nearby and then concludes and goes back into the establishment.
4) knowing that this lady is perhaps the lady on the phone and the person touching my food I hastily follow her in to see if it is and if she is a food handler.
5) not same phone lady- but Damn it! She Is a food handler! And she did not put on gloves!!! I look at her knowingly. She doesn't give too shits Or she is just a millennial that doesn't know anything, or isn't sober- can't tell.
6) She wipes her hand, sweatshirt still on, in kitchen and proceeds to wipe hands on an old wet rag, used to wipe off counters it looks like.
7) Guys in the back making the pizza actually engage in my presence both with good customer service, coolness, and cleanliness (thank God). Not sure- maybe that was the owners, or bakers, or both. They got a good grade.
8) Back to germ girl central- she proceeds to take my boxes from kitchen, open them up with her dirty hands and then hands them over to ring up by register- touching everything she comes across. Non sanitized. Including buttons, pens, napkins, cups, .
9) my party was starving and it was late and around holiday times so I reluctantly obliged with the knowledge or ignorance that maybe she didn't have access to The pizza at hand, and it was just cool dudes in back that cared about there place of employment. I took the chance and didn't feel like calling her out- because she already knows I saw her.
We had far too much pizza left over for days.....and that was with 3 dudes and 2 chicks who were very hungry. Not because the portions were huge but because that woman oversold me trying to make her sale, pizza was only alright, and the nagging visual of what happened prior-, effecting our ability to enjoy our pizza recklessly as all pizza eaters should.
so there you have it. Take your chances I guess. I'd like to support my local coastal-ria's but some issues need to be addressed. I will say- it wasn't greasy and I appreciated that. Crust was soft and not over salted. Dudes in back were cool. read more