Daytimes, during the school year, have never been busy at the Franchise. A few weeks ago, Greg started talking about opening later during the school year, and the text I just got from him, “Don’t come in tomorrow until 3:30″ seems to indicate he’s made his decision.
I think it’s a bad one. I mean, granted, there have been some weekdays where I’ve sat on my butt in the back of the store and read three hundred pages of a thick novel before the first order of the day came in, but there were occasional busy spurts. Really, though, these are the reasons I think it’s a bad idea:
1. With no notice on this hour change, customers will be upset and forced to the ONLY other pizza delivery shop in our area.
2. On days Greg opens at the old-regular time during the week (holidays, school-lunch days), customers won’t know and will be calling our competitor.
3. When the school year ends, customers are going to have to be re-educated to the new hours. This takes time, and I think next summer’s weekday sales will reflect this.
What do I care? Hopefully I won’t be available to deliver pizzas during the afternoon hours on weekdays for much longer, anyway.
