Ordered dinner for my family. Due to the severe thunderstorms on Friday night, had it delivered via Door Dash. Once there, the driver called me to say they ran out of Tira Misu and he handed his cell to a woman at the restaurant who said: "Yeah, instead of Tira Misu, we have cookies or a chocolate torte." There was no "I'm sorry for the inconvenience but we ran out of Tiramisu." It was just an immediate launch into: "We have cookies or chocolate torte." The tiramisu was $7.00 and cookies did not seem like a comparable substitute. I went with the chocolate torte and when it arrived, it was the tiniest sliver I have ever seen. Totally absurd to charge me $7.00 for that!
Luna Pizza also messed up our order. They never gave the Door Dash driver our pizza, which means my husband didn't get dinner. We only received the spaghetti for the kids and I. Luna Pizza never apologized or took accountability for it. They claimed they gave the entire order to the driver. This was not correct.
The driver stayed here in our driveway while we called Luna Pizza restaurant. A man with an accent answered and when I told him we were missing a pizza, he said, "I don't know what to tell you. We gave everything to the driver. You need to call Door Dash." I told him: "the driver is still here and when your restaurant gave him our order, they missed the pizza." The guy from Luna again blamed the driver and said he should've checked everything. Then he tried to get off the phone with me. I asked him: "What kind of customer service is this? You took my money and didn't give me what I ordered. Where is your customer service?" I asked to speak to the manager or the owner. He refused. I asked for his name. He wouldn't give it to me. Just incredible nerve.
We ordered a family spaghetti and meatballs. Luna Pizza had placed the container inside a pizza box. Which is likely why they thought they gave the driver the pizza. But that's on them and was Luna Pizza's fault! They screwed up doing that and placed blame on the nice Door Dash driver. ****Door Dash drivers should consider declining orders from Luna Pizza West Hartford. This restaurant doesn't think of you as a team. They'll throw drivers under the bus rather than do the right thing. **** We also ordered some garlic knots, which were awful and tasted previously frozen and were tough.
My husband went back outside to the Door Dash driver, who was awesome. Here he was missing out on making money because of Luna Pizza West Hartford. We told him he could go and we would call Door Dash to get resolution. We called Door Dash and had them refund us for the missing pizza.
My husband called the restaurant when he heard how this guy treated me. The same guy with the accent answered and was rude to my husband too. Plus my husband, who is a vegetarian, didn't get to eat dinner with us. He had to pour himself a bowl of cereal because he never got his pizza.
Message to he owners: I have been going to this restaurant for years and the place has just been going downhill. We went another time in person earlier this summer and the service was awful then too. Apathetic service and your employees have a bad work ethic. Hire more employees and hire better people! Also, I called back and finally got someone other than the guy with the accent. It was a manager on duty named Caitlin. Unfortunately, she couldn't manage her way out of a paper bag. She was defensive, never apologized for our experience, tried to say tonight was just a miscommunication. Um, no. Your restaurant screwed up, your employee was rude, your people don't care about customers. Pure and simple.
Your restaurant is going down the tubes! You won't make it. It's only a matter of time before we read about you in The Patch. The headline might read: West Hartford Restaurant closes its doors after X years. read more