Wednesday, 26 October 2011
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I Asked for a Single Garlic Knot...Not an Entire Order!
Last night as I waited for my night class to begin, I got a sudden craving for a slice of pizza. I only had a half hour until my class began so I headed to the closest pizza place to my campus, which happens to be Rosa's Pizza. I'm not the biggestfan of Rosa's but it's good for quick eats. So let me tell you what happened.
First, I must say that I am a big critic of pizza since growing up with some of the best pizza places all around me. My favorite slice is mushroom (dipped in ranch, obviously) and a garlic knot on the side with marinara sauce. Anyway, I walk into Rosa's and realized I only have my debit card, so I asked the girl behind the counter if there was a minimum to use a card...since most places in NYC require minimum amounts to use plastic, which I personally think is dumb. She told me there was a minimum of $10 to use plastic...are you kidding me? It's a pizza place and I'm one person aka I'm not going to spend $10.
So I took out money from the ATM and got charged $2 but it was fine because I was literally starving. I'll make sacrifices for food if I must. I ordered a mushroom slice and the guy said there was none. Huh? Now, at most pizza places (or the ones I've been to) when you order a mushroom slice they take a plain slice and top it with a handful of mushrooms then place it in the oven.
He told me the only slices with mushrooms also had sausage and pepperoni, which are two things I absolutely hate. Annoyed at this, I reluctantly ordered a chicken and tomato slice, which actually turned out to be pretty good. I also asked for a garlic knot. With this, I got a confused look from the guy behind the counter as he asked "One garlic knot?" and I said "Yeah...a garlic knot." He repeated it again and I repeated my answer.
I went to the cash register to pay and told the girl what I had ordered. After she heard my garlic knot order she said "You ordered an order of garlic knots?" and I said "No, I just want one garlic knot." I grabbed a table and waited for my pizza to be done. I went up to the counter when I saw my slice being taken out of the oven and waited for the guy to hand it to me, but instead he put it in a bag and gave it to another worker who began to scream my order to the entire place looking for who ordered it.
I was trying to get his attention as I was standing right there. Finally, he noticed me and I asked him to put it on a tray since I was eating there...this threw him for a loop. After watching the two workers figure out which one of them was going to put my pizza on a tray, I finally got my food and sat down. I looked down at my tray and saw an entire order of garlic knots. Was this a joke?
I don't understand why pizza places anywhere else but Long Island think it's so odd to order just one single garlic knot and not an entire order. The garlic knots were good, so at least that didn't suck. Oh did I mention I ate everything? Yeah, I pretty much ate my weight in carbs last night. Oh well...it was Monday.
Do you think it's weird to order a single garlic knot?
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Not gonna lie, I think it's a little weird to order a single garlic knot. And certain pizza places just aren't used to customers coming in and ordering a shit ton of specialties and "I know it's like this but please do it like this". It's like Starbucks customers waltzing into a mom and pop coffee shop and throwing around special requests. Just order what they have, for goodness' sake.
I also kind of feel that if you were "that" hungry, you would not have been making this big of a fuss over something as silly as a slice of pizza.
I may be completely misjudging you here, but your story just makes you sound like a spoiled brat.
Freaking love garlic knots. I would have eaten my weight in carbs, too.
No, I don't think it's weird to order 1 garlic knot or other bread roll. But, I'd probably eat the whole order, as well.
So... let me get this straight. You didn't want to spend $10 but instead you spent $2 to get some money out, and ordered a slice which, if you're in NYC, that slice probably cost you $3 and change (chicken and tomato), and an order of garlic knots, which is probably also $3... so you spent $8? Add on a soda, that's $10. It's not that hard to hit $10 in a pizza place in NYC if you're ordering specialty slices. You order one slice and leave, then that's not $10. And yeah, I think it's weird to order 1 garlic knot. Who eats one garlic knot? I don't eat the whole order, but 2-3, yeah.
Oh, and there's a minimum to use a credit card because restaurants and merchants are charged for each credit card transaction. Merchants accept credit cards as a courtesy to customers, and they lose money if the transaction is really low.
I really totally agree with the first comment. I don't know you at all and maybe it's just the way this post is framed, but you just sound like a bratty person who expects everything to be their way or it's just "weird" when really, going into a restaurant and asking for something that's not on the menu and then complaining when you can't get it.... well, yeah.
I've never seen slices of mushroom pizza waiting at the pizza places I go to...
I've never even heard of anyone who likes or eats mushroom pizza. I'VE NEVER EVER, EVER, HEARD of someone getting "1 garlic knot." That'd be like "Uh yeah I'd like A SINGLE CHICKEN WING...Oh, just one, yes..." Secondly you sound like a brat. Like just pure annoying. I bet you have a super annoying voice, too.Oh god just shut up...I've always liked the things that you post... But this one doesn't make you look very nice. You come off as either bratty or snobby.
Most places I go don't sell single garlic knots. They sell them in like orders or 3 or 5 usually. And honestly, I think you're being a little bit of an overdramatic bitch about this. Maybe they misinterpretted you but if you went to McDonalds and you were like I want a large fry, they wouldn't hand you the biggest fry they could find in the batch.
I'm just gonna assume you're PMSing. I fly into food-related rages when I'm PMSing too.
o_O This post makes you sound bratty. If you didn't wanna eat all of them at the time, why not take them home and enjoy the rest later??? Its like going to McDonald's and only wanting one chicken nugget.
Is this the same lady who complained about restaurant food etiquettes and how much people tip? Either way, you're the customer so you can ask for what you want. If the pizza place can't deliver the service, then we'll just leave it at that. However, a lot of businesses have two options: a minimum charge or if it doesn't reach minimum they can add $0.50 fee or more to the order to help cover the costs of plastic fees. Prices have inflated greatly so it could be more, either way it's cheaper than paying $2 at the ATM.
Yea, I think it is kind of odd to order 1 garlic knot. I don't know any place that does it except for this one place that is a buffet (that I would not recommend).
I would have just ate one and saved the rest for later or given them away to people in class.
@feed_moonbunny@xanga - My pizza was $2.75, my garlic knots were $1.75 and my soda was $ 1.25 so that brings my order to a total of $5.75.
@Wait_by_Moonlight@xanga - @babybug329@xanga - I love garlic knots too. Super yummy.
I totally agree. It sucks with the minimum but I do love rosas. It's like when I go in there and ask for 3 but they say I can either get 6 or 12, some people just aren't hungry for a half dozen knots. I dont really think it makes you sound all that snotty, I get cranky when I'm hungry too haha
P.S I may be completely misjudging ConfessionsOfAWhore here, but your name just makes you seem like a big whore
While I don't understand why some people are SO upset about this, I also don't think it's a big deal to get upset about garlic knots. I mean, if you didn't want all of them, you could have returned them, so it's not really anything to complain over :-/
@kkeenan21 - Oh, no, you're not misjudging me. I am indeed a whore. But I'm nice. :) Honest, but nice. I was not trying to attack the OP; I am just giving my honest opinion, and it seems that a lot of people agree with me.
@written_conversations@xanga - I also noticed a lot of people getting upset. And you're right, for a dollar-something, it really isn't a big deal. Either don't order them, or bag 'em up for later. I don't think restaurants can take food back after it's been served to a customer (unless it was prepackaged like a ketchup packet or croutons), well, at least that's the rule where I live.
Why are people getting their panties up in a bunch over this post?
Yeah, I do feel like ordering ONE garlic knot is weird, but then again, we all know people who are very particular about how they eat.
She's the same way, if you've read a couple of her other posts about food. It doesn't make her bratty or spoiled. She's just particular.
Wouldn't you be annoyed too if they got YOUR order wrong?
Calm the fuck down.
@fightingXstronger@xanga - Thank you for saying that. I appreciate it. I wasn't complaining either..I just think it's interesting how people think its so odd to order a single garlic. On Long Island EVERY single pizza place does this, so that's what I grew up with.
@fightingXstronger@xanga - I get annoyed when people get my order wrong but I work in food service so I understand that shit happens. When people try to order stuff that is not sold the way they want it, it is annoying. Then they keep talking to you like you're stupid and it's even more annoying. For example, we sell wings in orders of 8,14, or 22. People come in for our 50cent wing special and want like 4 or 6. When we tell them no, they get nasty. I get that we work for our customers, but that doesn't mean customers get to tell us how to run our business. If they don't like it, they can go somewhere else because we get new customers everyday.
OK here is my thought on the Garlic Knots, who the hell cares, if you 1 or 12 just charge .50 cents each and be done with it. I agree with the writer, we should be able to get what we want, we are paying for it.
Of course it's weird. How could you resist the temptation of eating more than one.
No I don't think it's wierd at all. You wanted what you wanted and that is ok. All the cashier had to do was tell you upfront that their restaurant didn't serve em in singles, so then you would've known, instead of being suprised when they brought out a whole freaking order that you had to pay for.
I once went to an Indian restaurant (Planet Bombay, in ATL) but wasn't in the mood of eating my entre with rice. I had just had rice that same day! So I ordered it with potatoes. They brought out a very very small amount of potatoes with a huge entre. I asked them for more potatoes and they gave me the runaround, first saying that it would be extra. I was ok with paying extra. Then after about 15 mins of my order not being there yet I asked about it... and they said that they just didn't do that, period. So I was pissed! I was under the impression that my potatoes were cooking and they didn't even intend to fix them. I wish they had've just told me that in the 1st place. Planet Bombay can kick rocks!
ordering and eating only one garlic knot is like only eating one potato chip, or one pretzel stick or something. o_o.they're too delicious to eat only one!
Everyone's perspective will be different, some people find it weird to order something simple as that, others find it weird to order 70$ of fast food altogether.