Applebee's reviews

3.7

58% would recommend to a friend

(9,787 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 9,787 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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10K reviews
2.0
Aug 18, 2015

General Manager

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Lots of resources to learn and improve your performance. Well respected franchise.

Cons

Being a "lower volume" restaurant means that as a GM I am a dishwasher, cook, bartender, expo, prep cook and janitor. Our market is saturated and it is extremely difficult to retain good employees.

3.0
Aug 4, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Nice team. Overall, the managers will work with you.

Cons

Up-selling, your performance reviews based on up-sells. They expect you to sell alcohol even in the first shift. Never mind that you are on time every day and never call in sick, managers review employees based on up-sells. Also, the managers expect employees to push surveys so that they can get their bonuses.

2.0
May 19, 2015

manager

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I enjoyed the people that I worked with at every location I worked at. The guests were also a lot of fun.

Cons

the hours are terrible and the place is never staffed. Not enough managers, servers, cooks, etc. This was always my chief complaint.

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