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3.7

58% would recommend to a friend

(2,085 total reviews)
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Tony Marolejo

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47% positive business outlook

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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

2.0
May 23, 2013

Not worth it

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Pros

-Flexible schedules -Pay was decent at times

Cons

-Managers played favoritism -Which leads to people don't deserve to move up faster than people who do deserve it -Couldn't leave until the manager says so -No breaks if it's really busy, even if you've been on your feet for 6+ hours -Co-workers stole from each other -Managers were degrading sometimes under pressure -Did server's job for them (cleaning tables, running food, rolling silverware, etc)

2.0
May 9, 2013

Busy work for nothing pay

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Pros

busy, people, other wise mostly negitave

Cons

after the hours i was being paid about $10 an hour on my salary

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