10+ pizza delivery drivers share how their most bizarre customers got banned from the restaurant: 'His living space was a shrine of greasy cardboard'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Jun 11, 2024 2:00 PM EDT

It's remarkable how eerily similar some of these delivery tales are!

Whether it's entitled customers getting frustrated about the silliest things (like not enough extra sauce) or teenagers trying to pull pranks or people getting a little too flirty with their delivery drivers, the ways in which customers can end up on a "No Delivery" list seem to fall into the same range of uncalled-for behavior. What's more surprising is how many people try to pull the same stunts over and over again and how customers somehow feel the agency to cross way too many boundaries when they feel that they have been wronged.

Dealing with this behavior should not be a part of the job description of a pizza delivery driver, yet it seems to have become a part of the daily work grind. So next time you get even remotely frustrated with your driver, think about some of the Karens and nonsensical behavior they may have already experienced today before you do anything outlandish. For more stories like this, check out this list of embarrassing work stories.

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    Pizza delivery drivers of Reddit, what are some of the craziest reasons people have ended up on the "no delivery list"?
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    gameryamen · 10 hr. ago I worked for a pizza place that was near a very large software company. Deliveries to the neighborhoods or offices where all the tech workers lived was usually pretty awesome because they'd tip rather well. But there was one apartment that started to become a concern for us drivers. The man ordering was always polite, always paid, always tipped $4, and he would have been a perfect customer. He'd order breadsticks and a salad twice a week, and sometimes he'd include a bott
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    Except when he opened his door, you could see an alarming amount of our breadsticks boxes stacked everywhere inside. Not like a few on the counter and a couple by the trash, stacks and stacks of them. Even worse, it was only our boxes in there. He wasn't just ordering from us often, we were the only place he was getting food outside of work.
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    Now, I've worked in some of those tech offices myself, I know that there's enough decent food options just hanging out in the break rooms that this guy was probably not malnourished, but the way his living space was a shrine of greasy cardboard was a clear sign that this guy didn't have a healthy relationship with our food.
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    Our manager was a really cool dude though, and he heard the drivers joking about the boxes and asked a couple of us "Is this like a messy guy or a guy who needs help?" We agreed it was probably the latter. So on his day off, the manager went to the guys apartment with an envelope that had gift cards for several other restaurants that delivered in that area and chatted with him. Manager found out that the guy was an immigrant on a Visa who was struggling to find American food he liked,
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    and too socially awkward to ask anyone. So he talked with him through a few menus and helped him with some recommendations. Then he helped the guy load all the old boxes into his truck to take to the dump, in exchange for a promise not to order from us more than once a week.
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    For a little while, the manager had a note on the calendar showing the last time the guy had ordered, and a couple times he had to hold his ground and refuse the guy's order. But after that chat, I never saw the stacks of boxes again, and the guy would boast about the different meals he'd had.
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    Divayth--Fyr 11 hr. ago Well there were a few, over the years. One lady, around 70, kept answering the door with an open robe and nothing else on.
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    This one dude was weird and angry, and would call up and just start in with you can idiots, if you get a order right one time, (I don't think he knew two swear words), and we had to tell new people you can just hang up on him. But from what I heard, when he did get a delivery early on, he was nice and polite at the door. Some weird psychological stuff happening there.
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    The Zeppelin guys were the worst. This weird tall place, had to go up four stories of rickety stairs, and every time they would wait till I was back down and then yell down at me saying we got the order wrong. They were Zeppelin guys because they always had Led Zeppelin playing pretty loud.
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    They wanted me (and others) to go all the way back up, take the 'wrong' pizza back, and bring a new one and get it for free. This worked a few times, managers always wanted to give in to it, but then the drivers all sort of briefly 'unionized' on this one point and no one would deliver to them. So the manager finally caved in and told them not to order any more. Stairway to Aggravation, I guess.
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    SousVide • 11 hr. ago I delivered pizza for 5 years of my life and I don't have one crazy story. I got bit by a little dog on the ankle once. That's about the craziest thing.
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    The weirdest thing that happened though, this woman would call twice a week and order a pasta to be delivered. This went on for years. Then one night I'm taking her order and I said "And you'd like this delivered tonight I'm assuming?" And she said "no I'd like it delivered tomorrow." We both laughed, and I said I'll see you in 20.
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    I go back to make her order and the phone rings again. It's her. She says "I'm going to cancel my order. Do you know why?" I was like "uhh... no?" "BECAUSE YOU ASKED ME IF I WANTED IT DELIVERED TONIGHT. WHAT THE IS THAT ?" Then she hung up on me. She never ordered again. I still think about her sometimes.
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    87eebboo1 12 hr. ago A Rottweiler broke the front window to attack me delivering their pies... The chain actually valued my health over profits enough to ban this house when the rotty busted their living room window on a drop-off
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    Chip Red 87 11 hr. ago We didn't put him on a no serve list, but one guy answered the door naked, or rather with an open bathrobe... A few weeks later he came to the door eating a can of cat food.
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    Hot Burrito . 12 hr. ago Back in 2021 my wife had to bite the bullet and deliver pizza between jobs. When she'd get home at 1 or 2 am, I'd get to hear about these people occasionally.
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    Their no delivery bans were people (gender irrelevant) who opened the door naked repeatedly. Seems to be a common theme for young men and old women. People (mostly men) who would pester for phone numbers or follow back to the driver's car.
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    No-tippers who would order like, $80+ worth of pizza every week and not tip. Edgy teenagers who would fail miserably at prank calls. Their number would get banned for repeatedly calling in pizza for "Ivana Humpalot". Parents would later call legitimately wanting pizza, just to be told they were banned because their dip☐ child didn't know Bart Simpson had already done every prank name in the book 25 years before the kid was even born.
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    fredgiblet 13 hr. ago There's only a couple of people on that and it's only because they complain about their delivery almost 100% of the time and demand free food. Even then it takes a lot.
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    darybrain 12 hr. ago Years ago my local Dominos banned a woman who loved to answer the door naked and walk outside to collect the pizza no matter the weather while somehow trying to be Apparently she _. had an uncanny resemblance to Jabba the Hut and smelled as bad as you could imagine. They put it as a health risk. They had asked a number of times to stop but it only egged her on.
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    When a Papa Johns opened up locally they were already aware of her and shut that pretty quick like. down
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    ☐ berdink_ 11 hr. ago Been in pizza 20 years. It's usually a day drinker that assaults the driver and is generally more sad than exciting. I suppose the most exciting was a dude with stairs in second floor. He was also a general . They wouldn't let us ban him even though the drivers said it was a safety hazard. he eventually fell through the stairs drunk 12 feet to the ground and got banned. It was caught on video from one of those track ball blackberries and the video sustained me for a year or
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