A job that changed me: On midnight shifts as a Subway ‘sandwich artist’ I served clubbers, cops and sailors
It was 1998, for Pizza Hut at Como, a well-established suburb 15 minutes from Perth’s city centre.
The Guardian reports that it was 1998, for Pizza Hut at Como, a well-established suburb 15 minutes from Perth’s city centre.
I blasted hip-hop through my car stereo and brought home cash tips and – if I was rostered until close – any pizzas that were unclaimed or undelivered that night. Between deliveries, drivers sat in the alley behind the shop and shot the breeze…
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