Fresh Food, Toxic People - Crew Chipotle Employee Review

4.0
Apr 3, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Clean conscience, you're making beautiful food in obsessively fresh techniques - Cheerful mentality, even if it's fake, it's nice to work at a place where people appear happy - Some managers are truly motivated to make each store its own collaborative community

Cons

- The promotion process is designed to filter out anyone who isn't insanely power-hungry. - The corporate culture trickles down about as far as the area managers, who are supposedly one step removed from the CEO or whatever. - The personal development journals are a cute analogue to corporate America, but are left empty until a higher-up comes to inspect the store.

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Cons

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Pros

Learning and growing to cultivate your own career path into a competent General Manager. The hours are longer than regular but the position is labeled as salary hourly with a minimum of 50 hours per week which guarantees 10 hours if overtime per week.

Cons

The long hours can be tiring and the expectations are less than or equivalent to that of a General Manager and depending who your boss is dependent on what you learn and how you can grow.

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