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[QUOTE]Originally posted by JeffKardde: [QB] Omega, Domino's Pizza, Papa John's Pizza, and Pizza Hutt, do not allow drivers to carry weapons of any kind. Knives, guns, etcetra. I don't know what chain this person worked for, but it sounds like a mom-n'-pop operation or possible a franchise. I couldn't wear a holster, you dolt. First, its illegal to carry the gun in the first place, and second, if anyone I worked with same me with it I'd be fired. Not to mention it would be hard to conceal effectively. I don't know where this person worked, but if you work in a dangerous area delivering pizzas, you take those chances. Carrying a gun isn't going to do anything but get yourself killed when you try and draw it on the robber (who more than likely just wants your money and maybe the pizza). Most [i]reputable[/i] chains only allow their drivers to carry no more than a $20 bank on them at any time (and they advertise this fact -- Domino's goes so far as to do so on its uniforms). I've seen drivers from Bruce Lee's Chinese bring out WADS of twenties and tens to give me change ... they make themselves a target, not the Papa Johns guy who has trouble breaking a $20 on a $10.49 order and walks away with the pizza when some asshole tries to give me a $50 expecting that we've got $35 in change for him. Robbing a pizza guy (or gal) isn't a spur of the moment thing. It can be frustrating to be waiting outside an apartment complex for a pizza guy (or gal) in the hope that they'll show up -- they're usually setups, where someone who has ordered before (or worked for the company), calls in an order and waits in ambush. This is why simple precautions like asking customers to light up their doorway, and using call-backs (gotta love cell phones) keep the dangers down. So does carrying money. Any robber in this area will go after the mom n' pop drivers, because they carry a shit load more money than the "big" chain drivers, but they don't make a secret of it. I was an Assistant Manager for Domino's Pizza for a year and a half, in Columbia, Md and then Cockeysville. I worked thirty to forty hours a week, and do you know how many robberies happened when I was working? None. And I mean, nowhere. Not from Papa Johns, or Pizza Hutt, and not just in our delivery areas, but in the surrounding ones. Pizza Boli, Waterloo Pizza, they had some problems, and the cops looked into it. They put some people in undercover with all the big chains after two Waterloo guys got robbed two nights in a row (they didn't catch the guy), but the criminals usually don't go after the big chains because the big chains are smarter about the whole thing. Trust me, if I worked with people who flashed $50 and $20 bills routinely while delivering pizzas, I'd be carrying the Glock (or at least considering it). Hell, there's more chance of someone walking into the store to rob it then getting me when I'm standing on Scott Adam Road knocking on a townhouse door. This is something we discuss routinely at Papa Johns. I work with people who have been robbed. Most just handed over their money and pizza and the robbers raced off (I feel sorry for the guy who stole the triple-anchovie pizza, but oh well). But everyone at the store I work at is unanimous that there's no need. It's all about prevention. And it works. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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