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Tropical Smoothie Cafe

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2.0
Feb 5, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

It’s a really easy job once you know what you’re doing as long as you have at least three other employees with you. Nothing you’re working with his heavy aside from tearing the dishes to the dishwasher, which is actually easier than any place I’ve ever had to do dishes before. All you have is smoothies and food and all the directions are right in front of you when you’re making a flatbreads and smoothies in case you forget how to make it. Everyone you work with most of the time will be pretty cool and the last two bosses I have had were chill and give us 5 to 8 hour shifts, depending on what we could or wanted to work

Cons

The job not only pays awful hourly, but you are always understaffed no matter what tropical smoothie you are working at because they downsized a couple years ago to only three staff members at a time as opposed to the six I started with. It was very easy and enjoyable, working with six people even though the pay it was low, but once they made it to three people, the job became almost impossible to service during lunch and rush-hour. I worked here for a year and a half and I got one raise that was only $.10. DO NOT APPLY HERE LOL

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5.0
Jul 9, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Hired me while under 16, gained a lot of experience, amazing crew, and flexible schedule.

Cons

Often had to go in early, but wasn't too bad for me because I am a morning person.

2.0
Jul 18, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Basically all the employees are super nice and it’s a super chill environment and if you brought a friend to get hired also it was a lot more fun

Cons

The management is atrociously bad , like it’s ridiculous how badly managed the store I worked at was; our managers were super super nice as people and were pretty understanding if you worked while being in school but like nothing was ever organized and the owner literally took forever to supply us with things if we ever ran out (like pens, markers, brooms, etc). No one was ever put into the system right away so you had to keep track of your hours on your own for the first couple weeks and when you were finally put into the system you literally would have to constantly ask the owner to put your hours in for payroll to get paid for those weeks. Basically the only way to get hired is if you already know someone who works there which can honestly go either way. There was always someone quitting which would completely ruin the schedule and make us constantly short staffed which was terrible to work through; working when corporate came was absolutely horrific and our owner never ever kept his promises to reward us when we did well after corporate visits. The only reason I don’t give Tropical a one star is because everyone I worked with was super nice and funny. Being a shift lead was a ridiculous amount of work for only a dollar per hour extra and we never ever got raises outside of the minimum wage in the city being raised.

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