Hundreds of people at a corporate event in Luxembourg City on Thursday were obliged to wait an additional thirty minutes for dinner after the delivery guy showed up late.
“Where are they?” said HR officer Ophélie Harcourt, who had been tasked with organizing food for the nearly 150 attendees of a day-long conference about finance and law.
She had installed the delivery app the day before, she says, in order to make sure it worked and that she was familiar with the interface.
During an afternoon break in workshops and presentations, she had then walked around and asked all the attendees what they wanted to eat, taking orders on a piece of paper.
“Look,” she said to several of her colleagues, showing them her phone screen when people began to complain. “It says the order was confirmed. Estimated delivery time was thirty minutes ago.”
An intern from the HR team was sent to the vending machines on level minus-one to procure snacks to hold everyone over.
Only a few minutes later did Simon Schneider, Head of the Legal Department, ask if anyone had checked the entrance, which he supposed was locked.
Several employees rushed to reception where they found the delivery driver standing outside by the buzzer with a puzzled look on his face.
According to reports, the food that had been ordered was all accounted for and was mostly hot. However, as the driver had forgotten to provide enough napkins and plastic silverware for the attendees, he was only given a small tip.
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Originally published by RTL Today
