12 hour days with stressed, angry people- not for me - Anonymous employee Applebee's Employee Review

2.0
Mar 4, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

If you show up you will get regularly scheduled hours, pays a bit above minimum wage to start, job security

Cons

Employees are over worked and underpaid, management uses an "everyone is replaceable" approach to employee relations, cost of benefits is very high

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