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Vanessa Cook
Jul 3, 2026
I am extremely disappointed with the experience I had at your South Holland location today.
I placed my online order at 10:47 AM, before the restaurant even opened at 11:00 AM, and scheduled my pickup for 3:15 PM. When I arrived, my order was still not ready well after my scheduled pickup time. At 3:41 PM, I was still waiting.
This raises a simple question: What is the purpose of offering online ordering if customers are still forced to wait long past their scheduled pickup time? The entire purpose of ordering ahead is convenience, efficiency, and respecting your customers’ time. Unfortunately, your system completely failed to deliver on that promise.
To make matters worse, the customer service was unacceptable. The employee with the glasses and short hair was rude, dismissive, and unprofessional. Instead of attempting to resolve the issue or apologizing for the delay, I was met with an attitude that only made an already frustrating experience worse.
This was my first time downloading and using your app because I was told it would provide faster service than ordering in person. Instead, I experienced the same delays and poor customer service that your South Holland location has unfortunately become known for.
Your restaurant has excellent food, but great food alone cannot overcome consistently poor customer service and an ineffective ordering process. Customers should not have to wonder whether the scheduled pickup time means anything.
I strongly encourage ownership and management to completely reevaluate both the online ordering system and the in-store customer service expectations. Employees should be trained to communicate delays professionally and treat customers with courtesy and respect.
As Black business owners, we are often expected to demonstrate excellence within our communities. That is why it is especially disappointing to experience service that falls so far below those expectations. I genuinely want to support Black-owned businesses, but that support becomes difficult when customers repeatedly receive poor service without accountability.
I hope this complaint is taken seriously and that meaningful changes are made. At this point, an apology alone is not enough. Customers deserve reliable service, professionalism, and an online ordering system that actually works as advertised.
Sincerely,
Expected More