The Red Pepper

Now, I don't know if I have blogged about this before but I need to comment about the Red Pepper. So, tonight after the UND hockey game, we went to the Red Pepper. We waited in line for like 10 minutes for an available teenage boy to help us. When one was finally ready, we gave our order: A half turkey grinder, a ham and cheese, a combo tostada and two Mountain Dews.

Now I realize that mathematically speaking, there are probably a ton of different options when ordering from the limited menu at the Pep, but that's what you train for. So when someone orders, you should have the mental capacity to make these things in an efficient manner. But alas, this is not the way it works.

I swear that these are the kids who failed training at Jimmy John's. They are not freaky fast. They are not freaky anything. I swear, if anything, these kids are freaky slow. It's like they are vying for the award of slowest worker.

That and I thoroughly believe that when these kids go on break, they slip out back for a joint. That doesn't add to their speediness at all.

But what pisses me off about the whole experience is that they have absolutely no reason to change. They are not a chain restaurant. They have no standard to live up to. In fact, the standard that they have to live up to is to be really slow.So if you want Red Pepper, you will have to wait in line, and the shitty thing is, people are willing to wait in line, so they have no reason to change. It's like a very annoying cycle.