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Panda Restaurant Group

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Panda Restaurant Group reviews

3.6

64% would recommend to a friend

(1,760 total reviews)
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Andrew & Peggy Cherng

81% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Panda Restaurant Group has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,760 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Panda Restaurant Group 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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2K reviews
1.0
Aug 21, 2023

Weird Company Culture

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Pros

It isn’t so difficult to get in because they are desperate to hire people, but this can still be considered as a con due to the fact that this just shows how much people immediately left the company for various reasons.

Cons

Upper-management will always be in your face. They’ll keep checking and hovering over you to see if you are making any mistake, or to point out your mistakes. And if they’d hear you complain about this you will be labeled as immature and selfish, because these do not embody the ‘Panda Way’. Lol Also, they prefer to sell food, especially vegetables that already have molds on them and you’ll be told to remove the molds and wash them off and that they are all still good to use. Why? Because sales profit is more important than food safety and gaining a lot of bonus money for saving on ingredients (avoiding wasted ingredients) is what matters most. But you see, they in fact implement to check food safety but saving vegetables with molds in them contradicts the purpose of these food safety checks. Ridiculous, right? A lot of hypocrisy and upper-management expects to be treated like some kind of royalty , that when they make a surprise visit you must make sure you ought to not show up with any imperfections and you gotta remind your associates to behave accordingly in a way that won’t make your district manager look bad to their regional manager. A lot of blaming each other happens instead of working on fixing the problem, too much talking and reacting unnecessarily happens. Also if you aren’t Asian and are not used to this toxic culture, don’t even bother to apply for a job here. Even Asian people themselves who currently work or have been employed in this company have expressed the same sentiments. You will also be expected to work for 10-15 hours a day due to being often short-staffed. And you have to make sure that you make the drive thru time less than a 2 minutes a transaction. You can’t make mistakes and you have to hurry up everytime. If you prefer to work in place that does not rush you to finish everything you do with so much sense of urgency then don’t work here.

3.0
Aug 8, 2023

Hard work

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Pros

My manager and team members were very cool and understanding, but I have heard horror stories of managers who were unreasonable. The pay was decent and I was able to schedule my work around my other responsibilities.

Cons

Very hard work, skeleton crews. Often just two people in the kitchen, who had to do everything from cooking to cleaning and even some prep. Physically very exhausting. Also, somewhat difficult to get hours. Some people work need to work 6 days just to hit 40 hours. Also, the culture can be kind of cult-y. You have to be a hardcore panda fan and talk about how it changed your life to move up. No room in management for people who want work-life balance.

2.0
Jul 25, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Good culture Benefits Passionate Continuous Learning

Cons

Team was not developed. Was difficult to balance all the work. High turnover on the team. Lots of phone calls and stress.

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