Food Service, Hospital Cafteria. Large Amount of Prep Work 50-60%, Customer Service 25%, Misc tasks 15-25%, Busy 7-2 pm - Food Service Worker Aramark Employee Review

3.0
Nov 25, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you enjoy dealing with people, complaints, and providing solutions ARAMARK Food Service is for you. Opportunity to meet people all ages all races. Opportunity to help sick persons visiting the cafeteria and providing them wonderful customer service. First Shift very relaxing after 2:30 pm before 2:30 pm busy and hectic. Evening dinner way more smooth and less stressful than lunch time. Manager usually leaves by 5 or 6 pm making the evening and closing relaxing so you can work at your own pace without getting hassled or yelled at.

Cons

Time Management is Key and Prioritizing your daily work. Great job for a student or someone seeking temporary work, Low Wages / Minimum Wage, Can be stressful, Can become boring day in day out. Can easily incur customer complaints for stupid things out of your control like unavailable products, out of a product, not agreeing with customers, failure to produce a product exactly right. If you have a cool / laidback supervisor your day wont be too bad, however if you're supervisor is a lifer or someone trying to climb the chain you're gonna be hauling all day. Days can get aggravating when getting yelled at by a supervisor, getting yelled at by the manager, and then getting yelled at again by the supervisor after he gets yelled at by the manager. Life all food service, hard work, and low paying jobs older employees often are bitter and expect things their way and younger employees will be laid back and most likely don't care. Best advice is to be friendly and treat all employees with respect, give second chances, If you're getting bullied by experienced lifer employees have a talk with them in private instead of talking back, ignoring them, or continuing to not hear them out.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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