Oh wait, op you are the one with not your job workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/157166/… this provides a lot of important context for this question

@wrwt - you're probably right. But what do I do about the pizza?

@TymoteuszPaul - yes, that's me!

@sf02 - I don't know yet how they were compensated in the past. This year, they haven't received any bonuses, and won't until October due to the company policy.

@JoeStrazzere - about 75 individuals in 4 locations

@JamieF did you actually run your event by someone before acting?

@TymoteuszPaul - the plan to order lunch for everybody, yes. The response was unanimously positive. The specific location, no. I hadn't realized it would be such a big issue, since I figure that most people like pizza. Definitely a mistake.

@JamieF clearly, but just to be clear I do not judge, and I think no one else does either (at least I hope), just trying to get full picture of the situation.

@JamieF - So you ordered 75 pizzas based on a single (joke) suggestion, and nobody checked out the vendor? And found 4 Chuck e Cheese locations to deliver them all? Yikes!

@JamieF - sorry, something is "off" about this whole scenario.

@JoeStrazzere - yeah, 75 total from 4 locations about (4 different cities). Employees are pretty evenly split, so I think the most was 25 or so from one location. All of the 4 cities had a Chucky Cheese relatively close to where the office is, and they all do Doordash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub. And yeah, in hindsight, they did sound a bit surprised on the phone. But I figured that any pizza place would be surprised by somebody ordering 25 pizzas to 25 different locations. (Wouldn't a Pizza Hut be equally surprised?)

@JoeStrazzere Perhaps the linked question by Tymoteusz Paul could shed some light.

@JamieF "I sent out an e-mail looking for suggestions on favorite food places." did you also specifically mention that this is for delivering food to their places?

You said it was a joke, but I'm curious to know if you think the pizza place suggestion was actually malicious/with an intent tending towards malice?

There are so many things here that don't add up, starting from 75 employees from 4 cities each living within delivery distance from a Chuck E. Cheese. I'm 99% sure this didn't happen.

Can you clarify how come you're the one tackling this since it would seem from your other question that you've only been at this company for a few weeks at most?

It does start to smell like a wind-up, especially now as this jumped from simple order pizza for few employees, to arranging delivery of pizza to 75 different addresses in 4 different locations.

So you also chose what to order for each employee and didn't ask what they specifically wanted from the pizza place beforehand? Did each employee tell you about their wheat or dairy intolerance before you ordered?

@user3819867: How did you conclude OP was an immigrant/remote?

@guest Even I know that restaurant chain, I have only spent a week in the US as an adult and am ESL. There is no way someone raised in the US would not even know the spelling AFTER ordering from there ("Chucky [sic] Cheese") or know the creepy mascot.

@user3819867: Okay, so your point is that the question is a joke? (I cannot judge, not from US, don't know the chain or the mascot)

@guest No, my point is that the suggestion "Chuck E. Cheese" is a joke, at OPs expense. When the punchline is "OP doesn't know anything about the US" it does have xenophobic undertones. If I were OP, I would put on a straight face and say "Your suggestions are really important for me and I will continue to base my decisions on them. Please make sure they don't hinder our work as a team."

I think there's something else going on here. If people in the OP's organization were happy (properly compensated, good benefits, healthy work life balance, etc), the OP's action would just be something to laugh about in the days and weeks to come. I would've opted for company logo'ed swag instead of free because it'd be hard to sort through all of the dietary restrictions people may have.