We are NOT the Phantom Gourmet!!

[Dave1982]

Had this guy come into the store today and proceed to interrogate me, my other OS guy, and one of the cashiers, demanding to know if the restaurant on the other side of the parking lot was any good. Then, upon being told "I don't know; I've never eaten there" several times, got pissed!

Guy: Come on, you guys must eat the all the time.

Actually, it's a fairly upscale place, making it precisely NOT the place to go on a 30 minute lunch break, even if that was enough time to eat there. Plus, it's a sushi restaurant, and I don't like sushi. But I've heard it's pretty good.

Guy: Well the people at the hotel recommended it. I just want to know if it's really any good.

Did it occur to you to go online and check?

Guy: Well, I'll just ask her *points to cashier* she should know.

And you're basing this assumption on....what, exactly?

Thankfully, our CPC guy - who has eaten there before - said "it's pretty good" and the guy left.

Seriously, dude, we aren't the Phantom Fucking Gourmet, alright? Therefore, it's not our job to review restaurants for you. And the hotel's recommendation wasn't enough for you? But the opinion of Staples associates is?

Whatever. He's probably one of those morons who expects sushi to be cooked.......

[Lingering Grin]

Whatever. He's probably one of those morons who expects sushi to be cooked.......

Actually, Sushi can be cooked if you want it to be

Sushi just means "Rice Roll"


As for the guy, I can see where he would get the idea that you guys might know, since you work in the same area, but he shouldn't have gotten all pissy about it, "I don't know" is a valid answer.

[Dave1982]

I forgot to mention that this guy didn't ask while he was here buying something. He came in just to ask about the restaurant, which makes this whole episode that much more bizarre.

[BowserKoopa1]

Next time that happens, just tell them the food is great there, and that customers get food poisoning at your place all the time. I personally guarantee he won't ever want to eat at your place, and you'll avoid 1 less sucky customer.

[Shards]

But that would be poor customer service.

I think we had a similar thing when I worked at Weis, except it was people asking about a Wing place that was next door.

Dude, I like wings, but they're expensive, and I'm a 16 year old working part time at a grocery store. Do you really think I'm going to blow my paycheck on one meal when there are games, comics, and legitimate expenses to pay?

Granted, this is almost three years ago now, but the point remains.

[Dave1982]

Next time that happens, just tell them the food is great there, and that customers get food poisoning at your place all the time. I personally guarantee he won't ever want to eat at your place, and you'll avoid 1 less sucky customer.

I didn't know you could get food poisoning from OFFICE SUPPLIES.

[Geek King]

I didn't know you could get food poisoning from OFFICE SUPPLIES.

You wouldn't believe the intestinal problems that result from eating improperly cooked binders.

[BowserKoopa1]

Oh, he works at Office Supplies?! My bad. I thought he works at another restaraunt.

[Bagboy]

You wouldn't believe the intestinal problems that result from eating improperly cooked binders.

The last one I ate messed me up for two weeks!

[Sandman]

Not to mention the roughage you can get from those pencils. They really get to the point!

[Crawley]

On the upside, you can make a great cocktail from White-Out and ink toner. It's called the Carbon Copy.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Plenty of fiber in a ream of paper, too.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Well, Staples does have a candy rack, so I suppose it's not entirely outside the realm of possibility...

Store1 does not have a cafe, but there is a Starbucks that is attached (they rent the space from the bookstore). I was covering the music department once and the phone rang enough times that I finally answered it (can't leave the department so they don't answer the phone unless they are paged to do so). The woman wanted to know the phone number for Starbucks. I said, "I'm sorry but I don't know their number" and she got all pissy. I'm right next door, I should know the number! No, I'm right next door...if I need to speak to them I poke my head through the doorway and say "Hey!"

I realized later that their number actually was in the little pull-out noteboard thingy in the phone. Oops.

Seriously, though, I never understand these people who can look up my store's number but can't seem to figure out how to look up the number for another location in the area, or the store that's attached to us. Maybe they just can't get past B in the phone book?

[JustaCashier]

Well, "Staples" could be the name of a restaurant.....


.......with a menu of very basic foods!

Mike

[EricKei]

Seriously, though, I never understand these people who can look up my store's number but can't seem to figure out how to look up the number for another location in the area, or the store that's attached to us. Maybe they just can't get past B in the phone book?

I could understand them asking for the number of another Staples location, but this....uh, no. We did it for people when I was at...*ahem* Daddy Johnathan's Pizza and VideogameHalt all the time...for other stores in our city; but that was it. We sure as hell wouldn't give out numbers to unrelated stores, and we wouldn't give out numbers to competitors (at the former place, people DID ask us that fairly often. The answer was "No, we know it for when we trade food with them don't have it"