Deep Pan Pizza Company ...
on Charing Cross Road a few years ago. Understaffed and shambolic on this particular night.
Big group of us had just been to see some film in Leicester Square and wanted some quick grub. Hmm, quick isn't the word you could use to describe what happenend. It took an hour to bring the starters, and when my "Vegetarian" pizza arrived it had pepperoni on it. When I enquired why the fuck that might be, I was told by the manager that they had run out of peppers so they put pepperoni on instead. Needless to say at this point I went absolute ballistic. There was quite a big group of us, and some of them had had just got their starters while some of the rest of the group were having their main course delivered. I explained that it was the worst service I'd ever experienced and that we wouldn't be paying for anything but the drinks we had consumed. And we didn't. People who had actually been delivered the right food ate it, we paid for the drinks and left.
It's an evening that's become kind of legendary with my friends because I'm a very placcid and laid back bloke normally and most people had never actually seen me that angry before. I think the manager was actually quite scared that I might cause him some physical harm.
Ended up going to Burger King in the end. Bollocks.
( brianftang www.brianftang.co.uk, Thu 27 Apr 2006, 15:38, Reply)