Pizza Hut
April 23rd, 2008Pizza Hut and it’s parent company YUM! Brands earn the dubious honor of vermin of the week over this now well known incident and the fact that the brave driver still isn’t back to work.
From the Des Moines Register…
“A pizza deliveryman told Des Moines police that he shot a man who robbed him at gunpoint when he delivered a pie late Thursday to a south-side address.
The alleged assailant, Kenneth Jimmerson, 19, was taken to Mercy Medical Center in serious condition. He was charged this morning with first-degree robbery and will be taken to Polk County Jail when released from the hospital, police said.
Melanie Stout, 18, the woman who placed the order for the pizzas, was charged with conspiracy to commit robbery.
Restaurant officials have suspended the Pizza Hut driver, James William Spiers, while the case is under investigation. Polk County officials today confirmed that Spiers holds a valid gun permit, which was renewed in November.”
Full story here.
Yum! Brands owns Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, KFC, Long John Silvers and A&W.
Given as they could care less about the safety of their employees, or their basic fundamental right to self protection while engaged in a dangerous job, they are my Vermin of the Week. I suggest a boycott is in order.
April 24th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
I hate PH because they keep all your information in a computer and every time you call they can tell you everything you’ve ever ordered. You have to give them your phone number before they’ll even take your order and once I was asked if I wanted to put my order on my credit card and they gave me my card number! THEY STORED IT IN THEIR COMPUTER! Talk about risk for ID Theft… When she read back my number, I told her to cancel my order, I’d never use PH again.
In contacting the corporate office to complain, I was told it was a “positive service to customers who are short on time or too busy to fumble for information”… No thanks. Besides, Papa John’s has WAY better pizza that is twice the size of PH. It’s worth having to pick it up & cook it when you get home and they don’t store my personal preferences or information in their computers!