Slave Away For Little Raises - Food Service Worker Aramark Employee Review

3.0
Jun 15, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

I work for Aramark on a college campus so most of the other coworkers would be other college students. Give or take a few of the locals living nearby. So often or not I would be working with friends. If you work really hard you get a chance to be noticed for that and can get rewards such as gift cards, prizes, and PTO. Not the greatest gifts but can be pleasant surprises. With Aramark being prevalent around the area and the State, you can transfer to other locations easily enough if need be.

Cons

Biggest cons is the management. I don't know if it was the locations I worked at or what but management here was really lack luster. Everyone pretended to help while looking for excuses to yell at you and act like they knew what they were doing. The moment they didn't need to be there they would hide back in their offices and look at their phones for hours until we were swamped with customers and had to come help. Aside from management, moving up in wage is little to impossible. They can only boost you up $0.25 if you get a great evaluation from your location manager. But you only get raises once a year. If you take up a supervisor position you can get a $1.00 raise but that position just makes you the scapegoat for whatever manager you have at your location. Last thing would be discipline and hiring. They will yell at you all they want but you would never be fired. Had lots of coworkers just not show up for work with no notice, which would lead to immediate firing due to their policy, but they still didn't fire them. We would be left short handed and without help because of this guy and they still kept him scheduled instead of replacing him. That aside they will hire anyone with a pulse but don't fire anyone so if they hired terrible people you are stuck working with them until they give up.

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5.0
Jul 16, 2026
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Pros

I worked for Aramark as a bartender at two different arenas in 2 different states and I absolutely loved it. Probably just lucky to have a good management in both places . Great money, fun job, amazing co-workers.

Cons

I don’t see the place for growth but it’s not something I am seeking, because it’s just a side gig of mine

2.0
Jul 8, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Travel opportunities. Former corporate management was extremely supportive and good to work with. Free food. Free drama.

Cons

Work life balance. Don’t be a mother to young children if you want to work here. Verbal communication vs. what you get in an email will be contradictory….the gaslighting was unbelievable. Digital metric systems put in place by new corporate management has taken all the creativity and actual management out of the job. Will be mad at you if you don’t make the numbers they want to see, but will provide zero guidance on how best to do so. Hours were extremely long in order to complete all job responsibilities. New upper management is inflexible to specific account needs. Each account is different. HR does not help you - they protect the company. If you need to terminate an employee - they make it impossible.

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