My day doesn’t really start until I get to work, and there are an infinite amount of sounds that I hear every single day. Starting off with the door chime. Every time I get to work and every single time a customer walks in I hear the dreaded beep. The beep that means I need to drop everything and put a smile on my face to go help a customer. After the customer places their order, it is time to make their pizza. This comes with the droning sound of the spinner, the crashing of the screens and docker, and the banging of the makeline as it gets opened and shut throughout the shift.

Once the pizzas are done, the ear piercing timer goes off to let every employee in the store and the units on either side of us know that there is something coming out of the oven. Speaking of the oven, that is the constant rumble that can be heard in the background of every sound that was recorded in the store. After spending enough time in the store it starts to get blocked out. The pizza peel makes a distinct clash when making contact with the oven conveyor and then when it gets set down on the polished aluminum cut table.

The most satisfying sound in the store is when the stickers get torn off the label printer to go onto the boxes. The perforated lines rip perfectly and make a crispy sound. The most unsatisfying sound however is when the phone rings. Nothing good comes from a store phone call. A driver took the wrong order or can’t get in contact with the customer, or the call center placed a customers order incorrectly and they call me to make edits. It always seems to happen right in the middle of a rush. My night always ends with the same few sounds. Before I actually leave, I hear the safe closing and the door chime one last time. To end it all off, I hear the sound of whatever vehicle I decided to take that day fire up and come to life to carry me home for the night.