PlayMp1

Former regular employee of Little Caesar's (i.e., one of the poor bastards in the kitchen) here.

This is basically it. When you order something that's not a pepperoni, cheese, sausage, 3 meat, or Hawaiian (the latter two only between 4 and 8pm), we don't already have that HNR in the warming cabinets, or able to be just thrown in the oven (like we do with the hundreds of pepperoni pizzas that get sold daily - we would sauce/cheese/topping several dozen pepperoni pizzas, but we'd only keep 4 in the HNR boxes at a time - the rest would be on racks, uncooked but ready to be thrown in the oven).

This takes time out of us doing other things - landing, cleaning, sheet-outs, so on. Your god damn half-Hawaiian, half pep-bacon pizza with extra sauce takes one of the fast employees about 30 to 45 seconds to make, during which time they could have: landed two or three pizzas, made two or three sheetouts, or washed two or three dishes. The extra cost is paying for the time we'll have to make up later on, as well as paying for those ingredients that we don't use in nearly as great quantities (e.g., chicken, which is normally only on white garlic chicken pizzas), where we don't get as great bulk discounts.

Plus we fucked up the Spanish.

I'm not Navajo, but as a fellow American, I can always get on board with this.

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Like some sort of rule where if you dodge the top questions and they arent trolls the affair gets shut down and you never get invited back?

You think that would matter to these kinds of people? Most of them don't give a shit, they're just seeing this as another marketing endeavor. If they see it fails, it won't take the moderation going, "you suck, b7," for them not to come back.

Normally I'm fine with stricter moderation - I love /r/AskHistorians, for example, partially because of its very strict moderation that keeps the sub to a high quality - but this would just be pointless. Reddit is a decently large platform, but it's peanuts compared to sites like Instagram, Facebook, or even Snapchat, let alone more traditional media.

My guess as a former employee is it has to do with the introduction of hot and ready. Suddenly, they were the cheapest pizza place in town (and probably most towns) by several dollars. A $5 pizza is friggin' nuts compared to $12 at Pizza Hut, and the pizza is just as large. In addition to that, there's no wait. Order something from a normal chain, and even if you go to the store to pick it up, you'll have to wait several minutes for it to be made. LC has the most popular pizzas - cheese, pepperoni, sausage, 3 meat, and Hawaiian - ready to go when you walk in, so long as they're not slammed with customers. It's literally a case of walk in, give the pretty college girl $6, then walk out with a pepperoni pizza within 30 seconds. Can't do that anywhere else.

I didn't like working there, but I'll be damned if they don't have a unique, profitable concept.