CriticalDarling1 :
As an employee in the deli, I can tell you that in theory online ordering is great but corporate expects managers to keep labor hours low and increase productivity and A LOT of the time theres not an extra person dedicated to online orders. The same employees taking walk in customers to the counter have to somehow fit in online orders between customers. This can work sometimes if it’s slow but if it’s a busy location or a rush it’s extremely hard to keep up. I’ll have orders coming due in 10 mins, try to start it, a customer walks up, I have to stop and help them, then they ask for a million things then the phone rings and I have to pick that up then next thing I know that online order is 5 mins past due and walk in customers have their arms crossed, are huffing and puffing and staring at me and I’m scrambling to get that online order done while the people in store are treating me as I’m ignoring customers. Most people think there’s a dedicated person doing online and that’s not true. We bounce back and forth between sliced meats, subs online orders, phone in orders, people asking where this or that is on the sales floor and we have to stop and go help them find stuff, random mishaps are common like people dropping a soda or glass jar in front of our deli we need to stop and go help clean up, slicers run out of time every 4 hours and must be broken down and cleaned to remain in compliance with health regulations, if I’m the only one on the slicers taking customers and I get online orders and people are standing there staring at me and my slicer times out I have to unplug it and break it down to wash it and things get behind. There’s never extra help and half the time the manager is also taking customers. There’s also platter orders, catering stuff and preordered chicken for large quantities. We are literally always struggling and behind and can’t keep up with the demand. Corporate will not increase hours because the greed in corporate America to make another billion dollars and always increase profit year after year endlessly is a real thing.
2026-09-06 21:47:38