Aramark reviews

3.3

51% would recommend to a friend

(12,101 total reviews)
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John Zillmer

58% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Aramark has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 12,101 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Aramark 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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1.0
May 4, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Local team and what we collectively achieve together. Without our local teams, there would be no core Aramark.

Cons

Senior leadership is a complete mess, providing useless, unworkable tools and dated programs and initiatives that fail to help clients or workers or drive their initiaitives. Greed by senior leadership has stripped value and assets at the expensive of employees and long term company viability. Borderline and questionable tactics towards clients and employees by upper management result in lost opportunities and contracts. Ethically questionable senior leadership. Executive leade ship from region heads on up filled with persons not qualified for role based on prior experience or successes, creating a talent and business vacuum, hence continued gaps between our organization and competitors. Senior leadership repeatedly lies or plays shell games regarding bonuses and retirement plans. Separate sets of business practices and demands for various clients, if it means propping up Aramark finances. Charlatain leadership from top down. Regional level management (Vice Presidents and finctinal roles) unresponsive to needs of clients and teams, all just trying to stretch the charade they are perpetrating one day longer. So much is put on low level managers by Operations Excellence teams who usually are unqualified for their roles, that customer and client needs cannot be served, all at the expense of the contract.Failed to pay bi yes per employee employment contracts in 2018.

2.0
Apr 27, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The pay was fantastic had overtime every week so my take home check was amazing.

Cons

The fluctuation in the schedule sucked at first being a jumper for the routes when someone took time off of called in sick but got used to that real fast. The thing I hated the most was management would push you to sell more product to customers but you couldn’t even get enough product to deliver to the customers that are already paying for the service. Mats always wet and stinky of mildew and god knows what. Then the company would charge the customer for fake ruin because they have quotas they must hit. Just a shame place ripping off their customer.

2.0
Apr 19, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good creative environment earlier in the career, but changed drastically over the past five years. Good benefits. Good opportunities if you fit "in the box"

Cons

Lost tract of importance of clients over the past 5 years with more emphasis on "the share holders" and "what have you done for me this quarter?" rather than long-term client success.

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