On Feb. 24, Gambino’s Pizza held their annual customer appreciation day. On this day all large pizzas were 50% off.
“We sold over 400 pizzas,” Gambino’s co-owner Stephanie Doffing said. “This beat our previous record of 350 by a big amount.”
During the night shift, many of the workers had never worked customer appreciation before.
“I thought it was actually pretty easy. I really expected it to be worse,” junior Levi Mies said. “There was a lot of pizza going through, and I’m actually pretty excited for next year if I work front again for it.”
This event is one that Gambino’s workers, almost three-fourths of whom are high school students, have to plan and prepare for. Everyone had very specific jobs; for example, there was one person prepping Meat Cravers and Mobsters, one person organizing food going into the oven, one person working the oven, and one person boxing pizzas as they came out of the oven.
“I did pretty much everything: help work ovens, make pizzas, help with front stuff, etc.,” junior Charles May said. “I was actually supposed to be the designated dough roller, but I only rolled one pizza in that entire shift.”
Some people even worked during both morning and night shifts.
“It wasn’t as bad as you’d think, just gotta come in and do what you gotta do when people need you,” junior Cooper Shobe said. “My job was making Meat Cravers, it was pretty easy.”
