Let’s face it. Jimmy John’s sandwiches are just OK. It’s customer service, however, is world-class. Possibly the best customer service we can think of at this moment. Sure, other brands replace damaged orders and compensate us for terrible times, but have Amazon or Target ever caught your boyfriend cheating on you, then called to tell you about it? Didn’t think so.
A 23-year-old named Kayla Speer in West Burlington, Iowa, was recently tipped off by a Jimmy John’s delivery driver that her long-distance boyfriend wasn’t exactly staying faithful to her.
Speer took to Twitter this week to tell her story in a dramatic tweet thread that recounts the story. As her boyfriend was studying for finals a few months ago, Speer decided to pep him up with a delicious sandwich from Jimmy John’s to get the ol’ brain cells firing.
https://twitter.com/kayla_speer_/status/1012181603248984064
Speer called the Jimmy John’s restaurant and confirmed to the employee taking her order that the food would be delivered without her there since she was three hours away, and then proceeded to send off some freaky fast magic to her beau. She then let her boyfriend know that a sandwich was on the way via text. He didn’t respond right away, but Speer chalked that up to him saying he was about to take a nap and then continue studying.
https://twitter.com/kayla_speer_/status/1012181776582791169
Her boyfriend eventually sent her a thank you text. Seems pretty normal, right? Nothing out of the ordinary?
Wrong. Speer then received a call from the Jimmy John’s delivery driver. Speaking to BuzzFeed, Speer said she first thought that she was receiving confirmation that the food had reached its destination or that there might be a problem with her payment method.
“Then I answered my phone,” she continued. “And the Jimmy John’s delivery guy was like, ‘Hey, we don’t usually do this, but we thought you should know that when we walked up to your boyfriend’s apartment, we were able to see inside, and we saw him with another woman naked on the couch.'”
Uh…busted.
https://twitter.com/kayla_speer_/status/1012182621730885633
Obviously, Speer was taken aback by this.
“[The driver] was like, ‘Honestly, it was so awkward I just wanted to get out of there, so I just gave him the sandwich and left.'”
The only thing left to do after that was to confront her boyfriend and, a few days later, break up with him after he scrambled to make up some sort of lie. You go, girl.
KAYLA!! I’d love to cater your breakup party! Let me know when and where! Please DM me your address and contact info and I’ll make it happen! https://t.co/ogfNhqAIRj
— Jimmy John’s (@jimmyjohns) June 28, 2018
The story has since gone viral, with folks praising the Jimmy John’s employee, who Speer has not heard from again. She wishes she could thank him “again” for the kind gesture, and she may very well get to do so. Jimmy John’s has reached out to Speer to cater a “breakup party” for the newly-single Jimmy John’s customer.
https://twitter.com/kayla_speer_/status/1012183103056633856
Perhaps she’ll get to meet her knight in red, black, and white armor there?
H/T BuzzFeed