Applebee's reviews

3.7

58% would recommend to a friend

(629 total reviews)
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Tony Marolejo

68% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

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5.0
May 28, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Applebee's offers plenty of advancement opportunities for employees that show strong managerial skills and punctuality. Basically, if you can do your job properly, show up every day and you're a decent, clean human you can advance quickly at Applebee's. At least 4 people I worked with chose to become managers within 5+ years at the company. Applebee's offers lucrative salaries, dental & vision insurance, 401k

Cons

I can only give my opinion based on my own unique experience and cannot guarantee that everyone will enjoy working here. Most restaurants have a significant amount of turn over which can be unfortunate when you really like the people you work with.

2.0
May 13, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Coworkers were pretty much all cool. They notice if you work hard and appreciate that. Training was pretty straightforward and quick Pretty easy to move from host to server

Cons

Management varies. Some managers are easy to work with. Some are micromanagers and incompetent then blame you for things. Sometimes they lecture you about rules and standards but sometimes they act like it is cool to break those rules depending. They play favorites quite a bit

2.0
May 6, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Free, mostly edible, food and fun people to work with.

Cons

Training was a nightmare, no mentoring just a “figure it out” approach which is just lazy and sets everyone up to be passable at best.

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