Pros
Young hip concepts. Usually busy. Ok money. Some bartenders make great $$.
Cons
Clicky. Micromanaged. Overly managed. Very corporate vibe. Lots of management is overworked and underpaid. I was at Olive and Ivy for less that a year and saw I believe 5 general managers in that time. They hired on average I would say 15 servers every two weeks. They would sometimes offer the new servers better shifts and sections regardless of how long you were an employee. No seniority. The restaurant basically became a night club with a Dj on weekends. The kitchen employees and even the executive chef hated their situations and Sam Fox as well. Lots of turnover everywhere. Guests complained all the time to Sam. Employees are molded so experience is not necessarily a good thing. A ton of work everyday even on days when your section barley got sat and you may have made little to no money. Many managers didn't really care about most employees on average. It was probably hard to because there were about 100 servers on the schedule on any given week.