Ya I know, you've heard me bitch about this stuff before, and I realize a college degree is (sadly) not a requisite to work at D'Angelos, but the mind numbing stupidity of the service there drives me up the effing wall with alarming regularity. Witness my dinner tonight...

HER:   D'Angelos Twin City, can I help you?
Okay, so far so good...
ME: Yes, I'd like to place a take out order?
HER: Okay.
ME: I'd like a medium steak tip.
HER: Okay.
ME: Can I get that without steak sauce?
I have to say that, because otherwise I'll get a sandwich positively swimming in steak sauce that drips all over everything. Real fun to eat in the car. I get this even if I make a point to say "Only a teensy little bit of steak sauce, please." So I have to ask for it without steak sauce, which is okay, because they marinade the tips in steak sauce anyway.
HER: Umm, no. It's marinaded...
ME: Erm. I get it without steak sauce all the time?
HER: Can you hang on please? [in the background I hear her answering another phone... several seconds pass before she returns] Yes, you can get it without sauce.
ME: Great.
HER: Do you want cheese on it?
Who the hell puts cheese on a steak tip sub?
ME: No, no cheese, thanks.
HER: Ok. Your name?
ME: Chuck.
HER: Okay see you in 15 minutes.

Here's the sub I got:

No. I'm not kidding.  Typically, when I call D'Angelos and ask for a medium steak tip, here's what comes on it:

  • Lettuce
  • Tomato
  • Grilled Onions
  • Steak Tips
  • An Ocean of Steak Sauce
  • Bread

I get this stuff without having to ask for it.  This is what you would call the "baseline" steak tip sub at D'Angelos.  I don't need to tell the person taking the order that I want, for example, grilled onions, because that's in the baseline sandwich.  If I don't want grilled onions I have to specifically request that they exclude them.  One thing that I have never gotten is cheese, and nobody has ever asked me for it either. Why?  Because cheese isn't a baseline ingredient for a steak tip sub.

Problems arise when the server is unaware of the baseline ingredients and leaves out something that the average potted plant would not, or worse yet, puts a non-baseline ingredient.  Like, for example, the time I asked for a Chicken Teriyaki Stir-Fry and found when I got back home with it that it had melted provolone cheese on  it.

Teriyaki sauce.  And cheese.

Fucking Moron.

So anyway, today for dinner I'm eating a piece of bread with chunks of meat.  I didn't get lettuce, grilled onions, or tomatoes because I didn't ask for them.

The thing I had trouble figuring out is why she gave me bread.  I mean, I didn't ask for it.  The only thing I've come up with is that if she didn't give me bread, what would I carry my meat home in?