Why Whole Foods Employees Are Dreading The Return Of A Fan Favorite Pizza Deal

Workers discussed their experiences at Whole Foods

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While aggressive customers certainly don’t help the situation, the biggest theme of the complaints about Pizza Fridays is that the Prepared Foods Department is understaffed. “Most PFDS teams are super understaffed,” one complaint noted. “We are being told at the store leadership level we need to have that team do pre pandemic numbers even with minimal staffing and then this is the icing on the cake.”

In fact, a separate yet simultaneous discussion occurred on Reddit about the state of the Prepared Foods Department across various Whole Foods stores. The common story was that the stations would have a few people in the morning, have no one for the middle part of the day, and have one person to close. One story focused on their experience with pizza, specifically how after moving team members from that section, the store has struggled to hire replacements. “Been the only pizza person for the last year they expect too much. The only two people they’ve hired to pizza have left in under a month it’s a joke,” the Redditor wrote. The despair of the pizza promotion’s return may have less to do with the specific promotion than more to do with the stress of working in the Prepared Foods Department at the grocery chain. 

Why Whole Foods Employees Are Dreading The Return Of A Fan-Favorite Pizza Deal

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By Felix Behr/April 26, 2022 4:41 pm EST

Workers discussed their experiences at Whole Foods

Noam Galai/Getty Images

While aggressive customers certainly don’t help the situation, the biggest theme of the complaints about Pizza Fridays is that the Prepared Foods Department is understaffed. “Most PFDS teams are super understaffed,” one complaint noted. “We are being told at the store leadership level we need to have that team do pre pandemic numbers even with minimal staffing and then this is the icing on the cake.”

In fact, a separate yet simultaneous discussion occurred on Reddit about the state of the Prepared Foods Department across various Whole Foods stores. The common story was that the stations would have a few people in the morning, have no one for the middle part of the day, and have one person to close. One story focused on their experience with pizza, specifically how after moving team members from that section, the store has struggled to hire replacements. “Been the only pizza person for the last year they expect too much. The only two people they’ve hired to pizza have left in under a month it’s a joke,” the Redditor wrote. The despair of the pizza promotion’s return may have less to do with the specific promotion than more to do with the stress of working in the Prepared Foods Department at the grocery chain. 

In fact, a separate yet simultaneous discussion occurred on Reddit about the state of the Prepared Foods Department across various Whole Foods stores. The common story was that the stations would have a few people in the morning, have no one for the middle part of the day, and have one person to close. One story focused on their experience with pizza, specifically how after moving team members from that section, the store has struggled to hire replacements. “Been the only pizza person for the last year they expect too much. The only two people they’ve hired to pizza have left in under a month it’s a joke,” the Redditor wrote. The despair of the pizza promotion’s return may have less to do with the specific promotion than more to do with the stress of working in the Prepared Foods Department at the grocery chain.