Applebee's reviews

3.7

58% would recommend to a friend

(9,793 total reviews)
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Tony Marolejo

67% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

Applebee's has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 9,793 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
2.0
Sep 4, 2012

Over-worked, underpaid

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

easy way to get your foot in the door of the restaraunt business

Cons

the hosts also work as the bussers, payed server salary with a small payout of servers' tips

2.0
Sep 2, 2012

Server

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Normally very busy so you can make a little bit of money Managers are very good about working around your schedule

Cons

Open late Manager's get moved around to other locations too much Side work is exhausting 2 of my managers were caught stealing from the restaurant

1.0
Aug 30, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Frankly, I can't think of anything.

Cons

I have never worked at any other place that had such a huge clique problem. At this restaurant there was an "in group" of people who had been working there longer than a year or two. This group included most of the managers. If you weren't one of them, you could not expect any sort of remotely polite interaction or fair treatment. Servers spend way too much time talking, joking around, and playing pranks on new employees. They then blame the cooks and hosts/hostesses when they don't receive tips. They asked me to seat certain people in their section, based on the attractiveness, race, age, or gender of those people. Some attempted to bribe me by giving me large shares of their tips if I would agree not to seat diners of certain races or ages in ther sections (I did not accept this). I have seen employees stand right in front of guests and complain about having to serve them, not even caring that the people are sitting right there and listening. Talking to management is useless as the majority of them are very close friends with the staff and gladly join in their antics.

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