Pizza thief
Aug. 8th, 2009 02:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snousleThe pizzas are proving so popular as to be somewhat disruptive. This past week, John's brother and nephew were visiting, so we made the usual batch of 24 pizzas and ate four ourselves. One was somewhat flawed so it didn't get labeled - but I carefully counted out twenty bags and printed nineteen labels, and used them all. This, at least, is not in doubt.
Friday morning at the shop, there was a small crowd of people waiting for my delivery. Several got taken straight from the cooler, before I could even get them into the display freezer. It was all very chaotic. The owner rang up three, and being somewhat embarrassed about not knowing how many packages I'd delivered the week before, I diligently counted up the remainder... fourteen.
As amazing as it sounds, in the five minutes between opening the cooler and getting them into the freezer, it appears that someone shoplifted two of my pizzas. This is both flattering and somewhat disturbing - this is a high-end gourmet market where most of the customers are well known. But there is no other explanation! I can believe it, since there are a lot of closet kleptomaniacs in the world, and the low production and high demand for these things seems to be getting the customers whipped up into a bit of a lather. I may have contributed to this myself by asking some customers "go ahead and take one from my cooler", which certain minds could have interpreted as meaning that they were free. In any case, I do remember more hands in the cooler than were accounted for at the cash register, though I have no idea whose they were. I told the owner I'd adjust the next invoice to reflect the missing pies. [sigh]
I would love to raise the prices on these things but I frankly don't know how to approach it with the owner. I'm terrible at asking for money.
Friday morning at the shop, there was a small crowd of people waiting for my delivery. Several got taken straight from the cooler, before I could even get them into the display freezer. It was all very chaotic. The owner rang up three, and being somewhat embarrassed about not knowing how many packages I'd delivered the week before, I diligently counted up the remainder... fourteen.
As amazing as it sounds, in the five minutes between opening the cooler and getting them into the freezer, it appears that someone shoplifted two of my pizzas. This is both flattering and somewhat disturbing - this is a high-end gourmet market where most of the customers are well known. But there is no other explanation! I can believe it, since there are a lot of closet kleptomaniacs in the world, and the low production and high demand for these things seems to be getting the customers whipped up into a bit of a lather. I may have contributed to this myself by asking some customers "go ahead and take one from my cooler", which certain minds could have interpreted as meaning that they were free. In any case, I do remember more hands in the cooler than were accounted for at the cash register, though I have no idea whose they were. I told the owner I'd adjust the next invoice to reflect the missing pies. [sigh]
I would love to raise the prices on these things but I frankly don't know how to approach it with the owner. I'm terrible at asking for money.
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Date: 2009-08-09 03:21 am (UTC)