Everyone has had crap jobs. Few have experienced the life-changing and life-threatening wonder of working for Pizza Good Times.
"Here's your uniform." Underneath the restaurant's logo, a small picture showed mascot Good Time Charley holding a steaming piece of pizza aloft. Ian thought the expression on Good Time Charley's face made him look as though he were about to rape and murder the pizza, and dump its torn and cheeseless body in the alley behind the strip mall.
Our story begins with a broken neck. When a teenage employee of children's restaurant Pizza Good Times finds himself twisted around a cowboy's fist, his young replacement is thrust into the surreal daily drama of a minimum-wage job. New recruit Ian Rider hates the dopey bosses, loathes the demeaning work, and absolutely abhors the obnoxious parents who bring their children to PGT—but the promise of love, real or imagined, keeps him in the game.
Ian's over-anxious teenage libido informs everything he sees, while his awkwardness keeps him just barely out of trouble. The bizarre return of the tragically crippled employee, and his mustachioed attacker overthrows everything in young Ian's world, as a strange chain reaction leads Ian to deliver a baby in a broom closet, dressed in the horrific mascot uniform of Good Time Charley.