Applebee's reviews

3.7

58% would recommend to a friend

(9,793 total reviews)
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67% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Applebee's has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 9,793 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Applebee's employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Restaurants & Food Service industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Jun 4, 2013

Good coworkers, useless management

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Pros

Not bad money for working at a restaurant. Time went by fast because of how fast paced the job was.. a 12 hour shift would feel like a 6 hour shift. Had the coolest most easygoing coworkers. Usually had 40 hours a week and hours were stable resulting in a decent paycheck.

Cons

Terrible management that liked to micromanage everything. Management treated most employees like disposable trash. Management liked who they liked and disliked who they disliked, it didn't matter how hard you worked, if management didn't like you, you would be treated with disrespect and scheduled the worst hours. In many occasions, the employees that were slower and did not care got the better hours and more respect than the ones that worked their butt off. New rollout added many new sandwiches to menu which made things more complicated during lunch. Corporate had strict rules about labor and food costs that had to be followed.. our store had very high turnover, so the food costs were fairly bad, which reflected on everyone. The raises were frozen for 6 months and still haven't been given up to the day I left. Some people were there for a year and a half and still didn't get a single raise. Most of management didn't care about their employees, just the bottom line, which was actually counterproductive because many didn't work very hard because management would find fault whether they worked hard or not. The words "good job" barely existed except between coworkers

1.0
Jun 4, 2013
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Pros

You don't have to have a life outside of work. You will get to train new managers all the time. Check to want ads they is almost always a job posted.

Cons

Unwilling to keep up facilities, pressure to profit over freshness. The structure of management at store level puts the very best managers with the very worst in hopes of help improve weak manager. What you get are managers who steal and feed friend for free while hard working managers suffer with poor performing P&Ls..Unwilling to fire minorities for even the gravest offences.

2.0
May 31, 2013
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Pros

Met fun people, decent new store opening.

Cons

Long hours, managers stealing and sleeping with employees, area directors convicted of felonies, crooked company in general. Only a discount when working on shift (2-3 dollars max).

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