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"I've called you all in here because I wanted you to know..." Pierson took a deep breath. "We have problems. The big guys and the town are beating us out of business."
Negative shouts rang out throughout the room. Six delivery people and seven cooks and clerks were present. He hadn't hired anyone new in three years since there were no jobs to be had anywhere else. His youngest employee was 19, his oldest 40, and everyone knew each other fairly well, or so he thought.
"How long do we have?" Aaron asked.
Pierson raised his arms to quiet the crowd. "The books aren't good. If things stay as bad as they are, I'll have to close in a month at most."
"I can't lose this job!" Aaron yelled out. This started a round of similar comments from the others.
One voice offered hope. "Is there anything we can do?" Mary asked.
Everyone quieted and looked at Pierson eagerly.
"Well that's part of why I called everyone in here. I need you all to come up with ideas. All the promotions I've tried haven't helped," Pierson said.
"Lower the prices," Rachael said quickly.
"We could do that but it doesn't solve anything. Unlike the big guys I can't get ingredients so cheaply that I can make a profit with lower prices."
"Advertising?" Aaron asked.
"I already do on all the local radio stations and newspaper. TV's too expensive and the stations are 75 miles away. The return on investment is far too low."
"How about offering things like wings or poppers?" Miguel asked.
Pierson nodded his head. "That's good, but it'll take too long to get going. If we can pull out of this I'm going to keep that one in mind."
Miguel smiled broadly and a few patted him on the back.
Unfortunately that seemed to signal the end of the ideas. "Come on people. We need something real and fast, for all our sakes."
Pierson watched his crew and waited for anything at all! He wasn't telling them the truth. If they didn't turn it around in a week he'd be going out of business in two. He was desperate, but didn't want them to panic and abandon ship right away. That's why he lied about the month; dirty but necessary.
But as the murmurs went on and nothing else came forth, Pierson started to become more and more depressed and anxious. He started his pizza place with lofty ideals, but soon realized his home town was probably the worst place to do it. Three thousand people in town with two large chain pizza restaurants gave too much competition for a small specialty pizza company.
Pierson's shoulders slowly drooped. He knew that it was a long shot to involve the whole staff in this, but he had to try something. With a sigh he started saying, "Well if any of you can think of something soon..."
"Nude deliveries," a quiet voice said. All eyes turned to the source, Jenna.
People were mostly upset by the suggestion, but Pierson was desperate enough to be interested. "Quiet down, quiet down," he said waiving his hands in the air. "What was that?"
All eyes were on her, the shy delivery girl who just suggested the outrageous. Her eyes darted around while her head remained still and she shrunk from the attention.
"Go ahead, dear. Please explain your suggestion," Pierson said. All eyes turned to him this time.
"Are you crazy?" Aaron asked Pierson.
"Crazy enough to explore anything before the ship sinks, yes. Please Jenna..."
Jenna felt a little more confident with all eyes off of her. "We deliver the pizza in the buff." All eyes shot back to her and she cowered away more.
Pierson's mind was on overdrive, wondering if he could make it work... if he could get the delivery people to give it a try...
"Why would you ever suggest that?" Mary asked Jenna. Jenna mumbled something. "What?"
"Nude Day's in three days," she said quietly. Most in the room didn't hear, but those closest did.
"What's Nude Day?" Rachel asked.
Jenna looked like she was going to implode from all the attention. The cat didn't have her tongue; it more looked like she swallowed it herself.
"It's a day to celebrate being naked," Peter said looking at his phone. "Naked in public."
Jenna looked up at Peter and smiled into his eyes.
The din in the room was high, making it difficult to even think. But Pierson stood there staring at a random point in the room with his mind working faster than ever. Could he possibly make this happen?
"I'm going to ask a ridiculous question here," Pierson said hushing the room and turning all heads toward him. "Who'd do it?"
"You're crazy!" Aaron said and Rachel agreed.
"Yes. Yes I am. I'm crazy enough to do anything to keep this place open. Since the factory closed there aren't many jobs in town or opportunities. If I close the doors I'll have to move out of town like everyone else seems to be doing. How many of you have had the same thoughts?"
Everyone looked around at each other and started nodding.
"So who'd do it?"
No one was forthcoming, although everyone fell silent. Moments passed and Pierson started to realize it was a stupid idea.
Jenna slowly raised her hand; her eyes closed and face cast down.
Rachel gasped. All eyes turned to her and then followed her gaze to Jenna.
"Y-you'd be willing Jenna?" Pierson asked.
Jenna nodded.
"Why?"
Jenna took her time to answer, but no one in the room moved a muscle or breathed a molecule until she did. "I participate every year. I-I go to the city."
More gasps could be heard throughout the room. Little, shy Jenna was a closet exhibitionist... Everyone was dumbstruck, unable to speak.
Until one did. "Hell, if she's in..." Aaron said drawing all eyes to him. "What? There's no way I'm letting her be the only one brave enough to do this crazy thing!"
Mary and Rachel were in awe of the former local high school football star and stared at him dreamy eyed.
"Ok, that's two. Anyone else? Kitchen staff has to be excluded for obvious reasons, sorry people," Pierson said looking at that group.
"What about the clerks?" Mary asked.
"And what about the police?" Rachel asked.