Applebee's reviews

3.7

58% would recommend to a friend

(9,790 total reviews)
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67% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Applebee's has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 9,790 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Applebee'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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10K reviews
4.0
Mar 27, 2015

eh

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

everybody shares the workload so it never gets too stressful

Cons

it is probably just my area but we bring in people who just don't seem to know a 10% tip is pretty bad. i think its because food is too expensive for what you get.

1.0
Mar 19, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I was hired with no serving experience and left a year and a half later with bartender and training experience. I also believe that if you make it out of Applebee's as a good server then you can serve anywhere.

Cons

The people who come into Applebee's are college students and those of the lower middle class looking to gouge on fatty frozen food and down two for one drinks. Despite the cheap prices customers are still under the assumption that their drinks should have hefty pours. Expect to loose a lot of weight running around like a chicken so get table 20 extra ranch, 32 needs more buffalo, and don't forget to put three extra pumps of strawberry syrup in table 30's lemonade. It may not seem like a lot now, but rest assured each table will have an item they forgot to tell you to grab last trip. And if you can't manage to make it back to the table with the third ramekin bbq sauce before they stuff that last boneless wing between their fat lips your manager is bound to comp half of the meal. Which really isn't a big deal after all, because it's all of $10 that you were most likely not going to get tipped on anyways

4.0
Mar 7, 2015

Applebee's Review

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Freedom to talk to your guest for as long as desired and make more money than your peers based off of working harder.

Cons

Rate of pay can go as low as minimum wage on bad weeks.

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