Cashier - Cashier Chipotle Employee Review

3.0
Dec 18, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great on paper! The values they stand for and respect to good food is great. Extremely easy work. Fast paced. Redundant routine work. Very simple uniform policy. Just a company shirt and whatever pants you want. Relaxed dress code; I have multiple face piercings and stretched ears, blue hair, etc. Time flies pretty fast. Free meal everyday. Lots of hours to offer.

Cons

Horrible management and Favoritism. Preach ideals and the idea that you can soar, but only if you're a certain person. Past work experience means nothing-pay rate is based on favoritism. Choose to promote under experienced workers over experience so they can "mold" you. You don't pick your work position when hired, rather told where you will be working. (Applied for Kitchen position with experience, interviewed for kitchen postion-got stuck as cashier.) The cashier IS the Janitor-store cleanliness is YOUR duty-no other position has to clean bathrooms, sweep, mop, ever. Young coworkers-lots of immaturity and call outs. Night shift is ignored completely. Everyone is supposed to have a weekly progress journal and one on one's with management (which is the way to be promoted upon completion) but only certain people do and the others will NEVER receive one. Forced to skimp portions and anger customers to save product costs.

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Cons

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Pros

Somewhat easy to pick up short term work, and depending on the location co-workers can be cool. The free meals are also pretty good, and there is a significant employee discount usually.

Cons

Extremely inconsistent experience between stores. One store I worked at had a really chill manager, while other ones would have management that made the experience absolutely miserable. I had one store that "unofficially" hired me for 18 hours one week and then refused to pay me for those hours, so I guess make absolute sure that all of your hours are recorded in their system. Because portions aren't standardized very well, a significant amount of customers will be angry at you if you don't give enough food, or if you give too much food your manager will yell at you. The fact that the food is made in front of the customer leads to significantly more negative customer interactions. If you do work at a Chipotle, make absolute sure it is one that isn't very busy, as it can be the difference between a relatively chill job and a stressful nightmare.

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