FallingBeverage
12-24-2007, 12:59 PM
I'm from Richmond, VA and I am a manager for Sheetz. I got transferred to the busiest store in our district about 2 months ago. For those familiar to Richmond it is located off Broad St near the Rt 64 exit.
The one thing that really bothers me is why all the drunks come here. Every night is bad around 2am, but Friday and Saturday nights it gets really bad. People wait up to 45 minuets for their food, we have 30 orders off the screen and a lobby full of drunks cheering us on. Most of the time the kitchen turns into a mad house with employees running every which way and food flying left and right.
Last Friday night I got off work at 1:30am leaving the store with a lobby full of people and 2 old security guards that don't even know the number to the police station (they asked me the other night for the 2nd time). I decided to drive past Wa-Wa to see what type of business they had going on at this time of night (our biggest competitor only 2-3 blocks away). To my surprise there were a total of 3 people in their store, while we had something like 40-50.
My question to you is why do all the drunks flock to Sheetz? It's not that these customers don't make my bonus a little fatter, but what is the difference. In my opinion I like Sheetz more, but that’s because they pay the bills. I could probably go on for another few pages on little things that make Sheetz better, but I won’t.
The one thing that really bothers me is why all the drunks come here. Every night is bad around 2am, but Friday and Saturday nights it gets really bad. People wait up to 45 minuets for their food, we have 30 orders off the screen and a lobby full of drunks cheering us on. Most of the time the kitchen turns into a mad house with employees running every which way and food flying left and right.
Last Friday night I got off work at 1:30am leaving the store with a lobby full of people and 2 old security guards that don't even know the number to the police station (they asked me the other night for the 2nd time). I decided to drive past Wa-Wa to see what type of business they had going on at this time of night (our biggest competitor only 2-3 blocks away). To my surprise there were a total of 3 people in their store, while we had something like 40-50.
My question to you is why do all the drunks flock to Sheetz? It's not that these customers don't make my bonus a little fatter, but what is the difference. In my opinion I like Sheetz more, but that’s because they pay the bills. I could probably go on for another few pages on little things that make Sheetz better, but I won’t.