Pizza guys/girls, does your shop have a "No Delivery" list? What houses are on it and why?

EnglishMajorRegret · 2時間前

There was an older man who suffered from dementia that would order four fountain drinks and nothing else from my shop, then would tip about $300 every time. After hearing about it a couple times, I told my manager, and we all agreed to get in contact with his family, let them know we wouldn't take orders from him, and that they'd have to take some measures to keep him from doing the same with other establishments. God only knows how much money that guy gave away.

atsinged · 4時間前

Long time ago for me, but we had a huge delivery area and several entire apartment complexes blacklisted because they were hideously unsafe for anyone thought to be carrying money. There were also a couple where we would deliver to the front gate only, not go in to the complex itself.

Greenspoint area, north side of Houston in the early 90s for those aware of the area.

myheadfire · 4時間前

When I worked at a pizza place, we just had one person that we wouldn't deliver to because he would always refuse to pay and hassle the delivery guy, saying the pizza was cold, took too long, wasn't the right order, whatever. He probably got a couple free pizzas at least before we stopped bothering sending him anymore.

J31ch0n · 4時間前

At our shop we banned an older man who tried to molest one of our larger male employees. Another guy just happened to be masturbating facing the window so the drivers could see him this happened a couple times so the cops were called... turned out he had a record of doing this but also doing it in front of school buses

Phuchtard · 5時間前

I delivered to the dorms when I was in college, back before credit cards could be used to pay for pizza. In the largest men's dorm, we had a "war" with some of the residents after they got pissed when we wouldn't accept an expired coupon for a 14 pizza order. So they kept calling us up with ghost orders and making life hell for us over the course of a few weeks. So we stopped delivering to anyone in that dorm. As we were the cheapest pizza in town, that did not go over well with them. The RAs got every student in that dorm together and told them to knock it the fuck off or get kicked out. So we tried to deliver again and the same shit happened. So we banned that dorm forever. It was cool by me because those idiots would place 5-20 pizza orders and tip $2.

EDIT: It was the mid-80s and there was no caller ID. Most of the students used the wall of pay phones we had in the lobby, but some rooms had their own phone. Regardless, there was no way of knowing who was calling.

mightyatom13 · 3時間前

I was delivering for Godfathers in Memphis in 88. We had no-delivery houses as well as areas. We had one area smack dab in the middle of our normal delivery zone that was blocked out. It was a low income apartment complex. We got a new manager. He was eager to up his numbers, so quickly changed that area to being a legit delivery area. The first time he handed me an order for that complex, I explained that it was a really shitty complex and we didn't go there for a reason. He accused me of being racist because I didn't want to deliver to the complex (complex was all black, I was white, manager was black) and said just to deliver it and quit complaining. OK, man. So I drive it out there and walk upstairs to the apartment door. I knock. No answer. I look a bit closer and it is obviously a vacant apartment. So I head back to my car and am sorting my money bag and next order when I glance up in the rear view mirror. I see 3 bad looking dudes crossing the parking lot heading right for my car. I notice one of them is carrying a rifle. Holy shit! I cranked up my shitty VW rabbit, threw it in reverse, and hauled ass out of the lot. I get back to the shop and the new manager accused me of making it all up and said he didn't think I had even attempted to deliver it. He says to go back out there. I say no fucking way, dude. He insists, so I insist he comes with me. He agrees. We drive back out there, he carries the pizza up the stairs, realizes that it is a vacant apartment, and quickly gets back in the car. "Sorry dude. You were right. It was a set up." We got back to the shop and he marked the whole area off limits again.

I-come-from-Chino · 4時間前

Worked at papa john's the only place on the no delivery list were bounced checks. We had one driver get his knee bashed sideways with a baseball bat and money stolen, I delivered to the same place the next night. They didn't care about getting robbed because the driver is only supposed to have $25 max on him all times. So everything over that $25 the driver had to pay for. This driver I think had to pay around $125 after being assaulted.

Edit: I wanted to clarify about caring cash. We were told (for this very reason) that after every delivery (usuall 2-3 houses) when you come back to the store you put all money in your drop box. Obviously if you got $60 cash on a delivery the store wouldn't make you pay for that but they had a record of how much the order was and how they paid.

esteban42 · 5時間前

We had a few blacklisted numbers/addresses. Mostly were for people who wrote bad checks or would constantly complain/return orders/make threats. One address that was on the absolute edge of our delivery area (a business all by itself on the edge of town) got blackballed because people from outside the delivery area would give that address and meet us there.

A couple of bad neighborhoods (including one that was literally 6 dilapidated trailers in the middle of a field with a two-track going back to it, nothing but crackheads with Pit Bulls and Rottys with no leash) were blacklisted too.

The-SpaceGuy · 5時間前

My friend who is a pizza guy told he asked his manager to ban a house because they always wants him to wait until they eat first slice and then complain pizza is not well made and asks for some discount or coupon and ends up not paying tip acting angry.

jsnoots · 3時間前

I delivered pizza in NJ, I went on the porch to see a snarling Rottweiler behind the door. Not a big deal, happens a lot, I'm a stranger the dog is just being a dog. The lady pushes him back, we do the pizza transaction and as I'm turning to go the lady said, "Oh my god, he's out.. " the back door was open and the dog was charging around the house about to come on the porch.

I quickly opened the door to run inside but the lady screamed "no, the really bad one is inside" and I see a bigger Rottie just inside the hall so I stick myself between the screen door and the real door and I'm trapped in an angry dog sandwich. The outside dog bites my calf because I can only close the screen door so much, not much damage but I'm bleeding.

The manager goes to talk with the lady (it is like 1/8th of a mile from the store or that lazy bastard wouldn't of bothered) and Rotties are penned up out back. As soon as the lady starts talking to him another small mutt dog zips out the door and bites him on the hand. He made the call on no more pizza for them.

scottevil110 · 5時間前

Our greedy ass owner refused to develop such a list, even after two of our drivers were mugged at the SAME HOUSE. They wouldn't let us avoid neighborhoods, no matter how unsafe, no matter what time of day.

Muppetude · 4時間前

A lady on our delivery route was always just getting out of the shower when we arrived and kept "accidentally" dropping her towel. There wasn't a single driver in our shop who hadn't seen every disgusting fold and lump on the front of that 300 lbs acne-covered body.

The manager finally warned her that if she did it again she would be banned.

She of course did it again, and I like to think the resultant loss of home-delivered pizza translated into a net benefit for her physical health just as it had done for our mental health.

Fail_Panda · 4時間前

My house got put on the a "deliver first" sort of list because we ordered so much and so often. Eventually, they would know people's phone numbers and knew the address automatically and sometimes give us a discount.

anormalgeek · 3時間前

Worked at a Hungry Howies pizza in college. They are basically a cheap, discount pizza chain. We had a few stores in a college town. Mine served the local college campus and the areas out west and south. These included the "bad" parts of town. We had a list of about 10 or so neighborhoods or streets we did not deliver to because drivers had been robbed. One of which was a rather large government housing project. That never went over well when I had to explain it to people. They often bitched me out like it was my idea or called me a racist.

We also refused to hire female drivers because of an incident before I was hired. A group of people made multiple fake calls throughout the night to different addresses until the female driver showed up. When she did they kidnapped her and raped her for days.

Edit: another story. One of our drivers was a kind of crazy homeless guy who had some anger management issues. One time a dude pulled a shotgun on him while he was still in his car. He was having a bad day so he just grabbed the barrel, pointed it forward and floored the gas pedal. He also used to sunbathe in his white briefs in the nasty parking lot behind the store while laying out on old pizza boxes.

TornadoApe · 4時間前

Yea we had a few no delivery places. Mostly places where we got robbed and another where someone (not one of us) got murdered. So we stopped going to those places.

chronologicalist · 4時間前

In the late 90s I was still living in Detroit and in between desk jobs, so I delivered pizza as a part time gig. Detroit's neighborhoods have been rough for a few decades now, but the 90s seemed like they were on their own level. I won't say the specific neighborhood, but there were some really rough ones.

This one house, though...this house was just in awful shape. I kind of figured this would be bad even as I was driving down the street to get there. Every other house (literally) was either burned out or very obviously abandoned.

This one was just shitty looking, but I tried to be optimistic. I walked up to the door, awning kind of drooping over my head, and knocked. Almost instantly, the door cracked open, and all I saw was a dark hand with what looked like a glock. "Leave the pizza and walk away."

I complied, obviously, and told my manager that I wouldn't be delivering to that neighborhood anymore. Still stuck around with that job for another 6 months or so, but that was probably the only thing on that level I've seen.

SamsChub · 4時間前

Was working for a big chain. Big chains rarely ban houses because greed, maybe afraid of bad will, maybe they are afraid of being accused of racism.

3 days in a row drivers came home from a house with tales of creepy behavior from 3 black teens dressed like gang-bangers.

Kids wanted pizza delivered to the back, hassled drivers, demanded free stuff, arranged themselves to surround driver, etc.

Drivers refused to go to the back, retreated to the car, etc.

3 days in a row the kids ended up paying 30 bucks for the delivery. Drivers begged manager to ban the house, but he wouldn't do it. Because perception of racism.

4th day. Boys are not waiting in front yard like before. Driver goes to door, gun stuck in his face, he hands over wallet and pizza and car keys.

He walks away, boys joyride and eat stolen pizza.

Boys caught by police. THEY LIVE AT THAT VERY HOUSE. Mom, a well-paid state worker, had been away at a convention that week.

House then banned.

Boys, although they lived in a decent neighborhood, went to a crappy high school where they wanted to get street cred as hooligans. At that school it would make them more fearsome and popular. The money was not an issue to them.

I was driver #3 in this story, heard about details of the home from neighbors when I did other deliveries.

This was 1994-ish.

AreNotOnFire · 3時間前

I used to be a delivery driver for Pizza Hut. I used to work the Sunday afternoon shifts and would have the same man order a supreme pizza every week. I was always the one to deliver his order because most of the time I was the only driver on duty at that time of day. Alan was a nice, quiet man who had a lovely front porch. One day, I didn't take his delivery for some reason. Poor Marvon took the delivery instead on the day that Alan decides to open the door stark naked. Alan wanted to show me (a small redheaded girl) the goods, not big black Marvon. Alan never got another delivery.

lancegreene · 3時間前

Prior to my freshman year of college (2002) I was delivering pizzas for Pizza the Hut in a decent suburb outside of Cleveland. I was the typical stoner/partyer easy going delivery guy, as a little background. One afternoon my manager requested I go change several hundred dollars for smaller bills for our register. As I'm leaving the bank after getting change and getting into my car I sense someone approach from behind and suspect they are going to ask me for a cig. Nope. Instead its a dude with pantyhose and his head and a knife and demands the money I have in my pocket and my keys. I oblige and he ultimately runs off and tosses my keys in the parking lot where I can see. When I run into the bank, no one at all saw the incident and wouldn't you know when they pull the footage there is sunglare in the exact spot on the window where my car was parked. The cops interrogate me and search the car, but seem to conclude that in fact I was telling the truth. My manager even vouched for me saying how I was a good kid.

Flash forward to about 10 years and I'm telling the story at a party and bam, it hits me. My manager, who often dated unsavory characters, set up the whole thing. Considering I was robbed in front of a bank in broad daylight on the busiest street in my town, who the hell would know to rob me; especially since I hadn't put my car topper on at this point.

calvicstaff · 4時間前

pizza guy here, we do not have such a list, but we do remember which houses are regular assholes and which ones try to scam free pizza by complaining (usually we just send another pizza but we make the regular baseless complainers send the first one back). we've never had anything truly bad happen to make us stop sending people altogether but we have sent different drivers to some places, like if a coworker is being hit on and it makes them uncomfortable we will send someone else to that place. I'm sure if something bad enough happened we would cease delivering to that address tho

edit: also i never understood being a dick to the pizza guy, like you're not soposed to mess with the people who make your food, so why would you mess with the people who make your food AND know where you live?

Mestoquacy · 2時間前

Ugh, I am on the No Delivery list of 2 restaurants because my Roommate is a fucking idiot and can't math to save his life. He once sent a Driver away after a heated conversation with a - 25 cent tip. Unfortunately, I was in the shower at the time. It wasn't until afterwards that he was explaining the situation to me that I realized what a moron he was. The bill came to $20.25. He gave the guy $20 and thought it was a good tip because we ordered two sandwiches that were basically $7 a piece and a $1 soda for a total of $15, so $5 tip. In actuality, the sandwiches were $7.99 and the soda was $1.99, so $18 right there, then there was a $2.25 delivery fee. So $20.25. Unfortunately, the delivery guy spoke almost zero English, so all he could say was "not enough" to my roommate, and my roommate is an asshat who wouldn't read the damned receipt. He is no longer allowed to answer our door.

TheOffendingHonda · 5時間前

Not a pizza guy, but I think you may like r/talesfromthepizzaguy

Toombah · 3時間前

I worked as a delivery driver for Papa John's in high school. It was a nice weekend job, lots of nice people in my area. Naturally, there were a couple shitheads who we didn't like to serve (and later added to the blacklist). One memorable house was this guy. This fuuuucking guy. He would order massive amounts of pizza, I'm talking anywhere from 7-20 pizzas. And would pay with cash. So naturally, we would call ahead of time to make sure it was a legit order and that we would get paid for the pizza. He would answer, tell us that it's all good and that he has the cash. It would always be the same order: x amount of thin crust pizzas with double anchovies and olives, extra cheese. I would load up my car, drive over, and he would never be there. Lights off and everything. Needless to say, we were all pissed. This went on three times before we decided to add him to the blacklist. Then, we would get the same order to other houses. We would get sketched out and not deliver to these houses. Over time, and with many anchovy and olive orders made, we added like 6 or 7 houses to the blacklist. Not the craziest story, but it's the only pizza blacklist story I have.

I have some more exciting delivery stories if anybody is interested

Tastemysoupplz · 3時間前

Don't work there anymore but we had a nasty 50+ year old woman that would always answer the door naked who was blacklisted. And a five block area we wouldn't deliver too because it was the ghetto capital of our city and people had been robbed.

bend1310 · 2時間前

We had a guy and two girls order seperately, then grab the pizzas and run.

The girls had picked the food up and left, while the guy was paying. After 30 seconds the guy bolted.

It was a $100 order.

My manager, who is a frequent gym goer, leapt the counter and gave chase.

The two girls had gotten into a car with the food, but when the saw my manager they drove off leaving the guy.

My manager chased him three blocks, and was gaining on the guy when the girls pulled up and the guy got into the car.

Unfortunately, all three of them went to school with a kitchen hand at the store, so we had names, jobs, addresses, and facebook accounts.

We contacted them all on facebook, and got them to pay for the pizzas the next morning under threat of contacting police. We also put them on the no delivery list.

placebojones88 · 5時間前

Delivered pizza in High School living in NY. There was a couple neighborhoods that we had to be escorted by police who were permanently stationed on the corners there. When you got to the building we had to wait in the security booth that had "bullet proof" glass. This was all because people would call delivery places and just rob the people of the money they would carry, sometimes the cars too.

maddomesticscientist · 3時間前

I worked for a restaurant delivery service and we had two people that stick out in my mind.

1) Incredibly mysoginistic verbally abusive man. Would call and order, being a sexist ass the whole time "I don't give a fuck about any goddamn specials sugartits, just gimme a rib plate" and then ten minutes later call back, livid, because his food wasnt there yet. "NOW LISTEN YOU GODDAMN BITCH..." I hated that man and it was glorious when my boss snatched the phone from me, mid-tirade and told the guy off.

2) One of the whorehouses. All the other places of ill repute were super nice, tipped well, etc. This one in particular though. They'd straight up snatch the food out of your hands and slam the door in your face, try and scam you out of money with these making change tricks, complained about every order, verbally abused drivers and order takers, and other stuff I'm sure I've forgotten. (This was a LONG time ago). You'd think that given the nature of their business, they'd want to avoid the attention of the law. Seeing as how they didn't even bother to conceal themselves under the name "massage parlour" but openly flaunted that they were a straight up whorehouse. I'll never get that one. I imagine that's why they were spectacularly busted about 6 months after we quit delivering to them.

stargate25 · 3時間前

Yes. I worked for a pizza place in high school. One of my friends was killed during a delivery.

Apparently, the husband had been in trouble before for domestic violence or something. I heard stories about the wife answering the door with fresh blood on her face, black eyes, that sort of thing. A couple other guys actually called the cops after delivering their pizza.

Anyways, my friend shows up to deliver the pizza and I guess the husband thought he had called the police a few nights before. The husband shot and killed my friend.

Nach0Man_RandySavage · 4時間前

I worked at a Jimmy Johns, which have really small delivery areas. We had a place that was WAY outside the delivery area that we were always getting orders from. It turned out that the guy was dealing to the manager and 1/2 the staff and they had worked out an arrangement. When the new manager came in, he had to put an end to that.

Edit: Clarity.

Mamamilk · 3時間前

We marked off an entire section of town on the big map in the back of our store because there were too many shootings and murders in the area. Some parts of that section we would go to if it was daylight, but wouldn't deliver to after dark. Others we just didn't go to at all. It was such an exciting way to make money during college.

TDeath21 · 4時間前

So if I move into a house on the banned list because an asshole lived there before me, I can't order a pizza when I'm drunk in the evening?

Isord · 3時間前

Apparently our entire complex is on the "do not deliver after dark" list at a local pizza place. That was encouraging to find out a week after moving in.

Slazman999 · 4時間前

When I managed a shop there was the bermuda triangle. A neighborhood that was banned because every time we had a driver go there they would get robbed.

ManWithBacon · 3時間前

We had to put this lady off our delivery list because I had to make 2 trips back to her house over a spinich salad. Her reasoning being the Spinich wasn't grown in the store and she demanded a refund, and my manager refusing the refund led to her shorted me in cash. Wasn't my favorite day on the job.

Booner999 · 2時間前

I used to deliver sandwiches for a shop. We had to blacklist this one lady who would call up last minute and demand 50-100 sandwiches for her meetings and she wanted them delivered in 15 mins. We explained things to her over and over again that this was not how it worked, but she still demanded her order. So, when it showed up 45 mins later than expected, she became a monster, causing a scene, not tipping, sending in complaints to the district manager, etc. This happened so many times, and finally, one day, she called in an order for 200 sandwiches, wanted it in 15 mins. I delivered it myself and she took the sandwiches from me for her meeting. I sat there and waited for her to sign the receipt... and waited......... and waited. Turns out, she took the sandwiches in to her meeting and booked the hell out of there, not signing the receipt. She then called her bank to cancel the charge on her card and called us in for fraud. She had the nerve to call up our district manager and said that we OWED this to her since all of her orders were late. She was blacklisted after that and my district manager finally apologized for not believing me on this story. Drug Reps are the WORST!

DiomedesTydeus · 3時間前

I 100% get why people would make such a list, but to give you a tale from the flip side, I'm quite certain I was on such a list. The previous home owner was a crotchety bitchy woman who tried repeatedly to screw me while I was closing on the house. I literally had to walk away from the table, twice, to get her to consent to what she had already agreed to (no, you don't get to stay an extra 2 months in the house before I can move in, we already set a date, etc etc).

Anyhow, first ~3 years I couldn't get a single delivery person to come out. I'd call in for a pizza or for like furnace repair, I'd get it scheduled, no one would come. No reasons given, I'd call back "Sorry sir, we'll send someone right out." But nothing would come of that either. Honestly, I got sharp with the managers a few times because from my perspective, I had done nothing wrong, I just ordered a pizza and 2 hours and 3 phone calls later I was never given a reason, it just never showed up. This probably didn't help if they assumed I was already a bastard, but I wasn't, I just wanted the pizza and didn't know why I was getting such terrible service.

Anyhow long story short, I get why you do it, but sometimes lists need some forgiveness, or some time to age people off that list. Just food for thought.

dylangle · 2時間前

A coworker and friend of mine got a delivery one night, before he left our manager pulled him into the office, gave him a pair of latex gloves and instructed him to use them to put the money in an envelope. He was confused but didn't ask many questions. He says when he got to the house, there was actual caution tape around the yard and a sign that said something like "warning: infestation". He is somewhat of a germophobe to begin with so at this point he really does not want to go up to the door, but he has to deliver this pizza. The woman who answers the door is grotesque, and is covered in red splotches and potentially bites of some kind. He quickly hands her the pizza, carefully takes her money with the gloves on and stuffs it in the envelope, and sprints back to his car.

He threw a fit when he got back to the store, and the manager felt so bad she put the house on the blacklist. He said he scrubbd his hands til they were red afterwards. Thinks it was bed bugs or scabies or something, we'll never know.

kylehermann · 2時間前

Welp, my brother and I(18 and 17) are the 2 delivery boys for a Chinese place near my house.

One day 2 months ago now , I was working, and a delivery is called in from one of our regulars, huge house, good tipper, young cool guy. Needless to say I was ready for a nice 8 dollar tip.

I shown up at the guys door and this middle aged man answers(I assume it's his dad). I look down to the bag to give him his total, and as I do, the fat bastard grabs my arm and tried to pull me in his house!! I'm not a big kid to begin with, so I just drop the bag and pop him in the face. He loosened his grip a little, so I just wriggle my arm free and nope the fuck outta there.

The scariest part is that the house is a huge fucking mansion like 1000 feet off the street it's on. I think I would have been in for more than a few ass poundings if I didn't slip out of that one.

A few court appearences later he got charges for assault and harassment.

Yay I didn't become a sex slave!

conman357 · 2時間前

My pizza store has no delivery charge. We just ask you take care of the drivers. If it's a large order and the driver says you're a dick and you didn't tip we will blacklist you no questions asked.

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