Panda Express reviews

Work life balance. Managers work more than 50 hours a week, open 2 days, close 3 days. They must be the last person leave the store on three close days. Company force employees harder and harder by increasing goal productivity; against recommended hours Bonus is hard to achieve. Each general manager has to develop one AM or GM to receive financial bonus. While assistant manager does not have to do that, they have less responsibilities and earned more bonus than general manager. People promotion: expectation for AM or GM is way high, like to promote them to become CEO

Company have high expectations for General Managers. They want strong operation, people development, 100% mystery shopper reports and no violations on food safety and sanitation visits. Also, great financial and guest satisfaction, while working long hours with no work life balance. Good luck on making bonuses after taxes taken out. ACO and management above wants to look good from your hard work while they really don't do anything but visit stores and dictate what you should do better. Lots of politics in this company. If you want to move up, you better start saying yes to everything they say. Everything you see is fake especially when the owner of the company comes to your store for a visit. Once he leaves it will be the total opposite condition. If you want to be stressed out, work long hours, be called in to work if short satffed, drive long distance for long days of meeting, burnt out fast, be fake all the time, no personal life, having to consistently hire staff because of high turn over then this is the job will for you. Don't be fooled into working for Panda. At the end of the day, you will feel like a slave working long hours for minimum wage and not happy at all.