Pros
- Great company culture - Outstanding reputations for food and service. - Excellent training programs - What you learn in customer service skills is exemplary. I know a lot of other restaurants that would benefit from sending their staff to work at a Fox Concept for a month to learn how to treat guests right. - Availability to transfer between different locations. You get the chance to travel to other states and stay with your familiar concept. Hard if you have a family but great if you're a 25-year-old. - Sam Fox is a visionary and a great person to gather experience from. If you get the opportunity you should take a position with Fox. One of the better concepts I have ever worked for. They retain a good amount of staff for long periods of time. A great place to work for. See cons for why I left.
Cons
- Some work weeks go beyond the 55-hour requirement. I'm sure if you ask any manager they will tell you they have done a 70 hour week there. - Cookie cutter concepts that get sold off to major chains. Hard to grab onto a sense of pride when you know your concept you work for is going to be sold to P.F. Changs or other restaurant groups. - There is no work life balance. For 5 days out of the week you wake up, go to work for 11-15 hours, and you go home to sleep. The position was heavily affecting my family obligations, social life, and physical health. For the right person, this will be a great job but for me, it wasn't. I can't speak for anyone besides myself so you'll just have to find out on your own!