pizza: I got a job at a pizza place. I do fine when going to houses but the apartments are terrible. It takes a while to find the right unit. I could have almost done two deliverys to a house. Is there any website or guide to help me deliver a pizza to apartments. You know the more pizza I deliver the more tips i get so this is very important to me. Any advice would be appreciated.|||ok i got this i work for pizza delivery too and trust me apartments are a pain in the butt hole!!!! firstly offly does your restaurant have apartment books, what we have are these binders that have pages for each apartment complex and the layout of the apartment numbers. do you have them? hopefully you do because they are DEAD useful. now with me, my pizza restaurant covers a huge area so if i need to take one of these pages with me on a delivery, its pretty much fine as long as i bring it back and put it in the correct binder. if yall have a smaller area that you cover for deliveries, and say you do not have these apartment complex books, you might be in luck because maybe you do not have a lot of apartments that you go to. my restaurant has probably.... damn atleast 50 that are in our area. so, like i was saying if you do not have a lot of apartments you can ask your manager what apartments yall go to and i guess just one day your off make a trip to each apartment complex and go to the office, tell them you work for pizza place, and ask for one of their maps. then you can just keep these in your car for quick reference. but ofcourse be careful when you reference them if your driving because some of ours the print is tiny now. some other tips. a lot of the time, if it says say 211, that means building 2, first floor. 1011 would be, building ten, first floor. 221 is building 2 second floor. 1021 is building 10 second floor. and so on. but sometimes there are apartments where each building is an address. say you have 4546 tinker street apartment 321 but there is no building 3???? what ok so you then see that there is building 4530 4534 4548 and so on oh look theres building 4546 THAT must be what you need so then you go to the second floor for apartment 321. that make sense? some apartments are really good at labeling their buildings, some even go so far as to put which apartment numbers are on which side, others like to put the building numbers behind trees and the covered parking dealies. another tip, always make sure you have your cell phone on you. if you ever go to apartments in gated communities, sometimes their code box wont work. sometimes you cant find their name because they're a dingaling and when you scroll through the names on the list they are not there, because they are a guest! or they are just not listed on the damn box so that is frustrating in that case you can call them and tell them you cant find their name and if in the case you dont have the gate code, they will be able to help you out. anything else you want to know i can help you. another idea, which i do pretty often is just wait for a resident to drive into the apt, or if the enter/exit gate is the same gate, wait for someone to leave.|||" building 4530 4534 4548 and so on oh look theres building 4546" Usually its like that but today I went to a strange apartment. Were it went more like this 4530 4534 4548 then 4521!!!!!!! Then 4546 was like almost across the entire complex from 4548 took me like 40 - 50 minutes to get that one Report Abuse |||lucky for me that was my last delivery(cuz I was pooped from walk around in the cold) and the lady was nice. She gave me a 5 dollar tip for being out in the cold and determination. I end up having to call the her. Once I did things went a bit smoother. I have to say i learned a lot this first week Report Abuse |||well definately yeah, ask your manager what apartments yall deliver to, you may even ask which ones are trickiest if he/she happens to know, and get those first. definately lock your door when you deliver esp to an apartment, since you're not necessarily right across from your car. just throwing Report Abuse |||that out there. yeah apartments are tricky n frustrating, some dont even make sense there will be building 7 right by 13 right across from 2 right next to 6, at some i have been to for example that makes you wonder wtf they were ff-ed up on when they posted building numbers. o ya n like u said some Report Abuse |||apartments are bad well u already know this just b on ur guard try n keep minimal cash on you dont count it at the apt in your car etc etc u alredy know the drill. any more tips id be happy to help. Report Abuse |||Generally, the higher the number of the apartment, the higher up the floor is. In bigger buildings, with 3 digit unit numbers, the first number indicates floor number.|||how about have them record location when taking the order?