Posted on 06/06/2024 6:34:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A small pizza shop in Ohio was pranked into baking a lot of pizzas only to realize that the customer who called in the order never intended to pick them up or pay the huge bill.
Thankfully, another small business owner, who heard about the prank, stepped in and offered to foot the bill.
Rocky Keefer, manager of PizzAroma's Maumee location, said a woman called earlier this month to place a timed order of 16 large pizzas, eight cheeses and eight pepperonis, to be picked up the following day.
Keefer said there was nothing alarming about the order as the shop sometimes cater events.
The next day, Keefer said the woman called back to see if her pizzas would be ready to be picked up. Keeder told her the pizzas were in the oven.
The bill was $112, and Keefer expected the woman to pay when she arrived.
But as time went by, no one showed up to pick up the 16 pizzas, and they had to be tossed out because they had grown old.
"I'm just like, 'I can't believe this, you know?'," Keefer told FOX Television Stations. "I can't believe this happened because we took time out to make sure it was done."
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Keefer said the pizza shop traced the number back to an app that allows people to make prank calls using a fake number.
"I just don't understand why people can do that to somebody," he continued. "I don't think they would want that done to them."
"There's more good people out there than bad people," Keefer said.
Keefer said people don't realize the time, effort and added costs that go into a large order, especially for a small business. Also, the pizza shop had to delay other orders to fulfill the larger order.
The shop posted its story about being pranked online, and Travis Truesdell, a nearby small business owner and Army veteran, stepped in to help out.
Truesdell not only paid for the bill but also ordered two additional pizzas to share with his employees at True Aerial Signs in Toledo.
"It just automatically resonated with me," Truesdell told FOX Television Stations. "I understand how hard it is sometimes to make, make ends meet."
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"Doing the right thing is so easy, and it really makes a difference to other people," he added.
Keefer said the shop was surprised and greatly appreciated Truesdell's offer.
"It's nice that we have other small businesses looking out for us," Keefer said. "Small businesses looking out for each other and have each other's backs. It makes me proud."
The pizza shop said it has changed its policy. Customers ordering 10 or more pizzas will have to pay upfront either over the phone or in person,
However, Keefer still hasn't lost trust in humanity.
"There's more good people out there than bad people" he said. "I know that for sure."
$112 for 16 pizzas?
If the company that owns the app is in the US, I’d think about suing them.
$112.00 maybe $30.00 actual cost? I don’t get it, what is the big deal?
Pretty cheap.
16 large pizzas for 112 buck. Something is not right with this story.
Caught my eye, too! That’s $7/pizza. That’s below the cost of ingredients.
$30 for 16 large? Guess you haven’t been shopping for flour, tomato sauce and pepperoni in a long time.
$112 seems like a lot of money. Usually, they make you pay first if you’re going to order that much.
For 16 pizzas?
112 bucks. That’s two visits to McDonald’s these days! lol jk.
Something is definitely smelly about this story.
The average for a pizza here is over $20.
Besides, who takes such a large order without running a card?
Only fools.
If the pizza place was placed In financial jeopardy by the loss of $112 it probably going to go out of business soon anyway.
I think if it’s more than $50, they ask you pay for the order with your card first.
It was the anchovies.
LOL
About right. Ingredients,more than two employees making product, plus electric and gas, taxes.....
Yeah something amiss with this story/”journalism”....their large cheese pizzas are $11.99 each and add pepperoni is $2.50 so $14.49/ea. Total should have been $327.76 + tax.
https://slicelife.com/restaurants/oh/maumee/43537/pizzaroma-maumee/menu
(Maybe the owner was talking “his out of pocket” cost”???)
I’m not sleeping with the enemy, but I thing the DOJ should investigate that app.
I was going by the bill, we used to figure about 25% of the pizza price was our food cost.
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