An indoor circus - Hostess Applebee's Employee Review

1.0
Aug 30, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Frankly, I can't think of anything.

Cons

I have never worked at any other place that had such a huge clique problem. At this restaurant there was an "in group" of people who had been working there longer than a year or two. This group included most of the managers. If you weren't one of them, you could not expect any sort of remotely polite interaction or fair treatment. Servers spend way too much time talking, joking around, and playing pranks on new employees. They then blame the cooks and hosts/hostesses when they don't receive tips. They asked me to seat certain people in their section, based on the attractiveness, race, age, or gender of those people. Some attempted to bribe me by giving me large shares of their tips if I would agree not to seat diners of certain races or ages in ther sections (I did not accept this). I have seen employees stand right in front of guests and complain about having to serve them, not even caring that the people are sitting right there and listening. Talking to management is useless as the majority of them are very close friends with the staff and gladly join in their antics.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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