Community:Dued1/Work at a Pizza Place

Work at a Pizza Place is a job simulation Roblox experience developed by on March 28, 2008. In this game, players need to work as a team in order to fulfill orders and to use their earnings to upgrade their house, buy furniture and buy gear.

Work at a Pizza Place has been one of the earliest and most popular games on the platform alongside Natural Disaster Survival, the game retains high concurrent player counts as a result of continuous updates. In 2018, the game celebrated its 10-year anniversary and reached 1B visits on October 11th of the same year.

Work at a Pizza Place involves players role-playing as different types of workers doing real-world jobs in a pizza place to earn cash, which can be spent on upgrading and decorating their house, buying gears and ordering food items as a customer themselves.

Jobs
There are six total jobs in the pizzeria. These jobs work in a hierarchical fashion, creating interdependence between the players (for instance, a cook will not be able to work if no one is taking orders as a cashier, consequently precluding the work of the players working in other jobs).

Players can also take a break by simply entering their own house or a friend's house. When done so, they will be automatically be placed on the "On Break" team and will be switched out of their work clothes. Players are able to take breaks whenever they please, but won't receive pay since they're not working.

Manager
The Manager is the head of the pizza place and has several duties and powers. Managers are able to hand out bonus checks, name an employee as Employee of the Day, send employees back to work, and start a vote to kick abusive players (however, if the target player has the VIP game pass, the Manager cannot kick them or send them back to work). The manager also has the ability to work in all 5 jobs without being switched to said job's team.

The manager's office is located next to the pizza boxing area. It's a small room with two windows containing a desk, wooden chair, black executive chair, houseplant, coffee mug, and lamp. The side window's blinds can be toggled by clicking on them, doing this changes the position of the blinds. In older versions of the game, player's only had the back window, which could be toggled from see-through to opaque. The door for the office is locked either until the manager passes through it, a player inside the office leaves it, or the manager leaves their job.

Only one player can be manager at a time. No one else may become manager until the current manager leaves the game, removes themself from manager by pressing the "Remove Manager" button, entering their own home, or getting votekicked by other players.

Once a manager quits or gets kicked, the manager's office can be accessed by any player until someone sits on the black office chair, which switches them to the "Manager" team. When there is already a manager in the server, it is impossible for others to do this until that manager leaves or gets kicked.

If a manager is being unfair or is not doing their job, players may step on the aforementioned "Remove Manager" button located in a small room near the manager's office. This will submit their vote to remove the manager, taking 8 votes in total for a manager to be fired. Players can view how many votes have been casted thus far by looking above the button.

Cashier
Cashiers must take orders from customers who either take the appearance of pre-made NPCs or of players in the server(universally showing up wearing the 1.0 package). The customers come in through the front door or drive up to the drive-thru, and will continue to stand or park until talked to. After clicking on the speech bubble above the top of the customer's head, there are 3 options for the cashier to respond with. In regular mode, all of them are correct. However, they will take some time to choose their order. In Advanced Mode, all but 2 of the options are incorrect. In this mode, the customers will take less time to choose what they want. Additionally, the customer's order will be in text instead of appearing as an image. The cashier must read their response and press the correct menu item button on the cash register. Selecting the wrong option or clicking the wrong button will turn away the customers. In older versions of the game, the advance version was the default.

Cashiers can also take orders from actual players. To order an item, players must come up to the cash register to get a pop-up menu showing decals of the three pizzas and Fizzly with each item costing 100 Moneyz. Once the player makes a selection, they must tell the cashier what they want in the chat. It undergoes the same process of cooking and boxing as an NPC order would, with the only difference being that it can be delivered to the player directly. If the cashier makes the wrong selection, the player will not be charged and can try to order again until the cashier makes the correct selection.

Newer players can access a cashier tutorial by pressing a yellow button located in the near the drive-thru window. This tutorial can be played anytime, but it will not show up to players who deleted or finished it.

Cook
Cooks work in the kitchen area of the pizzeria, which is located just behind the cashier area. They fulfill orders shown on the whiteboard just above the preparation area. When making pizzas, cooks need to make sure that the pizza has been properly prepared and baked. When Fizzly drinks are ordered, all the cook needs to do is drag the required amount of cans onto the conveyor belt, which moves into the boxing area.

To make a pizza, the cook must first check the whiteboard where orders are displayed. There are 3 kinds of pizza: cheese, sausage, and pepperoni. It all begins by dragging in pizza dough from the left of the prep table. There are four trays on said table: sauce, cheese, pepperoni, and sausage. To add ingredients, the cook must click and drag the ingredient to the pizza dough. All pizzas require sauce and cheese, while the pepperoni or sausages are only added if required.

Fizzly cans can be acquired from the fridge right next to the dough area. Since it is a canned beverage, it doesn't need to be prepared.

After the cook adds all the ingredients to the dough, they must open an oven, place the raw pizza inside and close it. The conveyor that leads into the boxing room will reject the pizza or Fizzly if


 * It was not ordered and displayed the whiteboard.


 * It doesn't have all of the required ingredients.


 * It's gone cold.


 * It's been burned.


 * It has bugs on it.


 * It's not cooked.

Pizzas that are burning can be put out by equipping the extinguisher located right next to the door leading out into the cashier area. The cook must grab the extinguisher by pressing the "E" key or clicking on it and continue holding the right mouse button while facing the pizza until the sound of the fire going out is made. Then, it can be thrown away via the trash can near the cashier area entrance. Pizzas can also be trashed if they've been infested by bugs due to being left on the floor. If a bug-infested pizza is placed in the oven, a squealing noise will play and they will turn black. Cold pizzas, however, can be reutilized by simply reheating them.

Newer players can access a cooking tutorial by pressing a yellow button located near the ovens. This tutorial can be played anytime, but it will not show up to players who deleted or finished it.

Pizza Boxer
Pizza Boxers are responsible for taking pizzas and Fizzly cans from the kitchen and boxing or placing them onto the correct conveyors, the boxing area is located right outside the manager's office. Pizza boxers must take the pizza from the conveyor belt on the right and take a box from the compartment above the boxing table, drag the pizza into a box, and then close it. The boxed pizza is then placed on the conveyor belt on the left and transported to the delivery table. If a pizza that isn't boxed tries to go through the conveyor, it will be rejected. Fizzly cans cannot be boxed, so they are placed directly on the smaller conveyor belt next to the pizza delivery conveyor.

In older versions of the game, dozens of pizzas could be seen on the roof right above the boxing and delivery areas. This would happen because boxers accidentally dragged the pizzas above the pizzeria. If a boxer had their camera tilted just right, they could actually drag those pizzas back down from the roof and box them. In 2018, however, this had been patched.

The pizza boxes currently have the "Builder Brothers Pizza" logo. They previously showed the "Hot & Fresh Pizza Pizza" logo, which was a logo of a real brand, so it was most likely changed to avoid copyright infringement.

Newer players can access a pizza boxing tutorial by pressing a yellow button located in front of the box prep table. This tutorial can be played anytime, but it will not show up to players who deleted or finished it.

Delivery
Delivery drivers are responsible for delivering the boxed pizzas and Fizzly drinks to the correct houses or player. Each of these house has an assigned house number (such as "A1", "B2", "C3", etc.). Every order will have one of these house numbers unless they're a player-ordered item, in which case they will show a preview of said ordered item (such as a Fizzly can). The driver must go to the correct house and carry the corresponding items to the front door, where a model of the NPC or player the order was taken from will open the door and take it and any other orders that house may have. If the delivery driver delivers an order to the wrong house, there will be no penalty, meaning that it can be delivered to the right costumer with no problem. They get 10 Moneyz (which was previously 15 Moneyz per order until updated back to 10 in the July 2018 update) per pizza and Fizzly delivered. The Moneyz given will increase in quantity with the progressive addition of 2 Moneyz for every order given to the same house.

Delivery is one of the most crucial jobs of the pizza place, with the other being Supplier, as it is the only way employees are paid without bonus checks or microtransactions. When a pizza is delivered, everyone earns money for it. It is important to have good delivery drivers, especially those who know to take advantage of the daily Double Time event, where each delivery earns everyone twice as much money. Double Time starts about every 30 minutes and lasts for 5.

Newer players can access a delivery tutorial by pressing a yellow button located near the locker. This tutorial can be played anytime, but it will not show up to players who deleted or finished it.

Supplier
Suppliers are responsible for transporting the pizza ingredients, boxes, and sodas from the warehouse to the pizzeria using large trucks in order to keep resources available. The supplies are cubes of pizza dough, tomato sauce, cheese, pepperonis, sausages, Fizzly, and boxes. Depending on what supplies run out, progress within the pizza place is halted until the supplier restocks the missing supplies, so they must always watch for any items that are running low. The maximum amount of resources that each item can be restocked to is 99, with no more being counted until that supply has lowered again.

There are two boards that show the stock of each supply: one in the pizza place's loading dock and another in the warehouse. Suppliers can check these boards to know which items need to be replenished. Towards the back of the warehouse, there are buttons with corresponding colors relating to specific supplies which the supplier can step on to produce the ingredient cubes, which can then be loaded into supply trucks.

Afterward, the supplier must drive the truck to the pizza place's loading dock, exit the truck, and pull the lever to release the boxes onto the conveyor belt.

Because the pizza place depends on having ingredients for orders, the supplier is possibly the most important job in the game. Suppliers must know how to stack the supplies so there are no "loose" boxes, which may fall off the truck or make the truck fling off the map. Luckily, delivery trucks can knock down trees and mailboxes. This can give suppliers an advantage if there are any obstacles on the road.

Newer players can access a supplier tutorial by pressing a yellow button located just in front of the buttons. This tutorial can be played anytime, but it will not show up to players who deleted or finished it.

On Break
Players who are not currently working are "On Break". Players can get this status by walking into their house or someone else's house or choosing to stay home during the job selection at the beginning of the game. Players who are "On Break" do not get Moneyz when pizzas are delivered. However, they will receive paychecks if they worked before going on break. Since the December 2017 update, managers will be placed on break if they enter a house. A message will show up for the manager confirming if they want to go on break or not, and warning that someone else can become manager during that time. For trolls, this gives them a small advantage, because managers can't put them back to work unless they give up their jobs to walk into a troll's homes.

Houses
When a new player joins the game, they are automatically given a house which they can customize. This house saves automatically, loading in whenever they join Work at a Pizza Place.

There are twelve houses on the map, divided into three sections: A (A1-A3), B (B1-B6) and C (C1-C3). The player's house will be placed into a random vacant location on one of these three streets. Any houses which are not occupied by players will be vacant (sporting gray paint and the Medium House upgrade) until a new player joins.

Houses are a way for players to spend and manage their hard earned Moneyz. Players can change the color of their house's walls, roofs, doors, and windows, as well as buy furniture from the in-game Catalog, which they can then place wherever they want in their house. Additionally, VIP only items, Moneyz, and gamepasses can be bought with Robux.

Houses start off with the Tiny House upgrade. Players can use the Moneyz they earn from working, bonuses they get from the manager, their daily Moneyz for joining the game, or buying house gamepasses to upgrade their house. These upgrades can expand the player's house size and floors (such as Large House, Two-Story House, and Backyard, as well as Mansion).

Formerly, players could rate houses, but this was removed since it was most likely considered unnecessary. A like button has been added to replace the rating system. You can find it under the Customization tab in the Catalog for 800 Moneyz.

Upgrades
The following is an ordered list of all currently available house upgrades that players can progress through:

Shop (Catalog & The Dump)
Since the homes of new players have nothing in them, they are usually encouraged to customize their homes by buying furniture from the catalog, using in-game Moneyz which they earn from completing their jobs. Another way of buying furniture is The Dump. The Dump offers discounts on items in the catalog and can have rarity items along with locked items which once purchased will unlock that item in the catalog. The discounts for the dump go up to 90%, which can be sold back to make a 15% profit as items are sold back at a 75% reduction of the original price. Mr. Builder owns The Dump (previously there were 2 clerks who can help you change the color of parts of your house in exchange for Moneyz but paint buckets were issued to everyone from January 23, 2017, to replace this feature). The Dump was once closed from January 23, 2017, to January 31, 2019.

The catalog contains gear, furniture, etc., which can be purchased with Moneyz. Once you buy something from the catalog, in order to use it or place it in your house, you must use the inventory (bag on top left corner). Use the removal tool (red X gear on 2nd row [gear row]) to remove furniture.


 * To start with, the game will offer you a free furniture item (previously 4). Open up the inventory (backpack icon) and click on the item to equip and place it in your house!
 * A free gift appears above your mailbox occasionally, which is a daily item. Touch the mailbox when the present icon is shown above your mailbox.

Moneyz (Coins)
Moneyz (Coins) are the only currency used in Work at a Pizza Place.

You can earn Moneyz through the following:


 * Starter Check (500 Moneyz — can only be obtained once)
 * Daily Check (200 Moneyz, 400 with VIP)
 * Paycheck (Twice an in-game day, once in the daytime and once in nightfall)
 * Bonus Check (150 Moneyz, given by the manager)
 * Uncashed Paycheck (If the player leaves without claiming the standard check)
 * Secret Island Chest (1500 Moneyz — can only be obtained once)
 * Microtransactions
 * Selling unwanted items
 * Moneybag (maximum 2000 Moneyz, each coin gives 200)

Zoobers
Pets (referred to as 'Zoobers') were added to the game during Christmas 2015. They can be purchased for 7,000 Moneyz. The player can customize their Zoober upon purchase and can have 3 active at a time. The Zoobers will float near you but can be held in the player's hand if instructed to. The player can disable their Zoober any time by simply clicking the green button on the bottom right, and click it again to re-activate the Zoober.

Customization
The player can purchase accessories for their Zoober through the top hat button in the Pet interface. Only 1 accessory can be worn by a Zoober at a time.

Caretaking
The player will need to frequently check the Pet tab on the top of their screen to check on their Zoober's stats. The 4 stats are:


 * Hunger
 * Sleep
 * Fun
 * Pet

These need to be frequently checked on, and if one of the stats are low, the player can click on the correct button representing the stat to increase it (e.g. If the Zoober's sleep stats are low, click the "Sleep" button to put them to sleep). Zoober with very low stats has a tendency to cry or appear sleepy.

Stickers
Stickers were added to the game on September 15, 2018, and function as cosmetic decorations which players can collect and apply to walls for aesthetic purposes. Their color determines the rarity, which ranges from Common (Blue), Uncommon (Green), Rare (Yellow) and Legendary (Purple). They were originally awarded for free through a daily reward system but were later changed to be available through serving customers who arrive with a capsule in their hand. Once the customer's order is delivered, it will award all players currently working at the time with a random sticker. Stickers can also be purchased using Robux from vendors in the main dining area of the restaurant, and rolling a duplicate sticker will award the player with coins.

Employee Benefits
The manager has the power to hand out employee benefits to hard-working employees. There are two kinds of employee benefits: Bonus checks and Employee of the Day.


 * Bonus checks can be handed out by the manager for hard work. These are blue, 150 Moneyz checks which can be cashed instantly. There is a 10-minute cool down for handing out bonus checks.


 * The Employee of The Day is a highly sought-after award that managers may appoint an employee for. The employee of the day is commemorated with a golden plaque of their avatar in the cashier room, manager's office, and the pizza boxing room. There is a 15-minute cool down between selecting employees of the day. Apart from having your name on the wall, this has no benefits.

Party Island
Party Island is a game that can be teleported to from Work at a Pizza Place. The game allows players to customize their house and throw parties, where other players can dance and explore other people's houses. DJ booths are popular party items. The map, unlike the regular game, only features houses, and lots of people can play.

Players can teleport through the tall portal next to The Dump.

Easter Eggs

 * Whether intentional or not, it is possible to push a customer away from the cashier area and even carry them on your head. Just walk into a customer and they will move and jump onto your head if you keep walking. You can cook them by shoving them into an oven and closing it. They can be still interacted with normally, even when cooked.
 * There is a rocky island northwest of the mainland (near the edge of the water) (north being the direction of the supplier's warehouse from the pizza place), that has a treasure chest which will give 700 Moneyz which can be opened only once.
 * Another island can be found southeast that has a shelter, a homeless person and has a jungle-like appearance. You used to be able to sell your unwanted items by talking to the homeless person. The person looks stranded considering his overgrown beard. However, the cabin accommodates 2 beds, which suggests that there were two stranded people originally. After the July 2018 update, the homeless man was situated at the Dump where the teleporter to Party Island formerly was situated at. After The Dump reopened on January 31, 2019, the man was moved back to the island, however you can no longer sell unwanted items to him anymore. The way to sell unwanted items now is to talk to Mr. Builder, the owner of The Dump.
 * There is another island east of the island with a shelter and a homeless person which contains a tropical appearance and a cave.
 * Near the drive-thru is a secret room that has a dark brown wall. It contains a "Can You Keep a Secret?" poster, along with a rusty working soda machine and a dirty restaurant table with chairs. It's possible to see players in the pizza boxing area, through the ovens from the kitchen, and a little bit of the cashier area through semi-transparent walls that can't be seen through the other side. Additionally, it is possible to get into the upper ovens by climbing a truss that is located behind them and entering them through a roof that has no collision. The semi-transparent walls are one-sided only, meaning that only those who are inside the secret room are able to see through.
 * There is an Easter Egg which teleports you to the Work at a Burger Place game. It can be found by swimming towards Rock Island near house C2 and touching the Krusty Krab restaurant located under the water where you will be teleported to the game. Detailed water must be enabled in for this Easter Egg to work.
 * Under the water near house A3, there is a tunnel. A skeleton can be found within the tunnel. Currently, you can swim inside the Detailed Water and into the tunnel via a hole.Tunnelholepizzaplace.pngTunnelpizzaskeleton.png

Double Time Event & Special Pizzas
During the Double Time (DT) event which will happen occasionally in the game, players and customers would be able to walk faster and orders turn to gold pizzas. Special pizzas are pizzas that will increase the money gained for completing a regular order.


 * If the order is golden, you will get double the amount of money.
 * If the order is rainbow, you will get 10 times the amount of money. Rainbow pizzas and Fizzly makes a sparkling sound when nearby.
 * During the Double Time event (which lasts for 4 minutes and a 3-second countdown), all normal orders will become golden orders; after the event ends, all of the orders which were normal will revert to normal orders, while actual golden pizzas will remain golden, even after DT.

Game passes
There are 13 gamepasses. Every gamepass is permanent.

ROBLOX Holiday 2014 Event

 * Main article: ROBLOX Holiday 2014

This is the first time for featuring in an event. The objective is need to do all job 10 times, expect Manager and On Break jobs to get the Joyful Bell Helmet. The second objective is need to find to the carrot nose in spawn-points to get the Snowman's Carrot Nose.

Teen Titans Go! Event

 * Main article: Teen Titans Go!

This is the second time for featuring in an event. The objective is need to find tiny Robin spawning throughout the game to get the Robin's Mask.

Disney Infinity Event

 * Main article: Disney Infinity

This is the third time for featuring in an event. The objective is need to deliver 30 times in the server to get the Pizza Place Hat.

Blink
This was a third party event with the game Blink (outside of roblox), created by Dued1's brother. If you purchased Blink, you could get special items in Work at a Pizza Place.

BLOXtober 2015 Event

 * Main article: BLOXtober 2015

This event is the fourth one held in the game. The objective is need to find the tiny zombie, which spawns in random places to get the Nerf Bandana.

Pizza Party Event

 * Main article: Pizza Party

This is the fifth time for featuring in an event. The objective is need to touch a pizza that has been shot from a Community Pizza Launcher to get the Boombox Backpack. The second objective is need to touch a pizza that has been shot from a Developer Pizza Launcher to get the Pizza Mohawk. The third objective is need to touch a pizza that has been shot from a Video Star Pizza Launcher to get the Purple Party Fro. The fourth objective is need to touch a pizza that has been shot from a Admin Pizza Launcher to get the Disco Ball Helmet.

Languages

 * English
 * Spanish
 * German
 * French
 * Turkish
 * Polish
 * Russian
 * Italian
 * Brazilian Portuguese
 * Korean
 * Dutch
 * Japanese
 * Malay
 * Traditional Chinese
 * Simplified Chinese

Trivia

 * Fizzly was originally Mountain Dew, and Builder Brothers Pizza was originally Hot and Fresh Pizza Pizza, but they were most likely changed due to copyright.
 * One of the wrong responses you used to be able to say to customers was "Hi, I'm Buddy the Elf, what's your favorite color?", this is a line from the 2003 Christmas comedy film, Elf.
 * On March 30, 2018, Dued1 released two new exclusive items and double cash for two days as part of the game's 10th anniversary.
 * The game was the first to achieve 100 million visits on the platform.
 * On October 11, 2018, the game surpassed one billion visits.
 * Work at a Pizza Place has won an award for "Best Mobile Game" during the 4th Annual Bloxy Awards. Including the award, the game has been nominated 3 times throughout 3 Bloxy Award shows.
 * There is a way to "reset" the Remove Manager counter as a Manager without having to step on the vote button. First, click a player. Then, go to your office and make sure no one is in there. Finally, click the "Leave Job" button, and quickly sit on the executive chair.
 * With the purchasable Snowball gear, there is a way to abuse its knockback to push managers onto the Remove Manager button, forcefully removing them from the occupation and allowing someone else to take the job without the need for eight votes. This can also be done using the pumpkin trophy gear that could be earned by completing the maze during the Halloween 2018 event.
 * Supplier and Cashier are the only fully independent jobs in the game, meaning that they do not have to rely on someone doing another job before they can perform theirs.
 * Many features that had been removed were re-introduced later such as the drive-thru and double time.
 * Obtaining the Delivery badge will grant the user the Pizza Boy skin in Arsenal.
 * There was a way that you could get inside the manager's office via the window and using the sleep emote to glitch through it in and out. This glitch has been since patched.

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