Famous Dave's reviews

3.5

46% would recommend to a friend

(582 total reviews)

Jeffery Crivello

65% approve of CEO

33% positive business outlook

Famous Dave's has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 582 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Famous Dave's employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Restaurants & Food Service industry (3.7 stars).

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582 reviews
5.0
Jan 4, 2018

Great Place

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great company with a lot of tradition.

Cons

Corporate needs to oversee more franchises to see that standards are upheld

2.0
Dec 29, 2017

Host/ Server

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very flexible job; Both hosting and serving were relatively easy jobs

Cons

Management was awful. They often picked favorites and took sides. Also, manager misconduct was often ignored. There was an extremely high turnover rate of hostesses and servers because of this.

2.0
Dec 21, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay (Dependent upon location),

Cons

No free food, benefits after one year, very wacky scheduling, corporate doesn't seem to care about the people who work their butts off. Rather high turn over rate, non existent managers.

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