I still new to this business, but I am still amazed at what comes out of peoples mouths. It really shows when designing marketing material you have to really spell things out and highlight very clearly.
I know there is an old joke about this, but it’s happened to me twice this week. Our medium and large pizzas are divided both sliced into 8. I have had to explain two times now, that the large pizza has bigger slices.
It seems everytime I come to a point of menu design, I have got so much dumbing down to be put in.
I wouldn’t be too sure about the ignorance of people who can’t do even basic math.
When people can’t figure basic percentages on their credit card and what it’s costing them per month. When people think that person who pays, say 10% on a million dollar income is paying the same as a person who pays 10% on a $25,000 dollar income because the rate is the same, then stupidity is what happens. However; if you want the business, than you put up with it.
Reading this reminds me of what Yogi Berra replied when the waitress asked if he wanted his pizza cut into 6 or 8 slices. He replied make it 6, I’m not very hungry today.
A local restaurant celebrates Dyngus Day every year and hard-boiled eggs are one of the foods they add for the event. They sell them $.25/each or 3 for $1.00. When I asked the waitress if anyone ordered them 3 for a dollar she rolled her eyes and replied, “just about everybody.”
Yesterday, I had someone ask me “Your 8-cut, now that’s 8 slices, right?” only to be followed up by someone calling a few hours later to ask if we make our own lettuce, I kid you not, and they were being 100% serious. I have to think that these people must be trying to buy time on the phone while they decide what they want to order and use these oddball questions as conversation fillers. Who knows…
I gathered that’s what they meant but a simple, “do you use bagged lettuce?” would have worked. Seems strange, but you’ll have that from time to time I suppose.