Aramark reviews

3.3

51% would recommend to a friend

(12,103 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 12,103 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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4.0
Jun 24, 2017

Nice company for seasonal work

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Pros

There are a lot of great, interesting locations to work in. Have contracts in some awesome national parks. Not contract work.

Cons

Low paying seasonal work. No benefits for seasonal employees.

1.0
Jun 16, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Sadly I can't think of any.

Cons

I wish I could give Aramark on the campus of the Univ of Mississippi (Ole Miss Dining) zero stars. The Rebel Market Dining Hall where I worked (there are several Aramark food service locations on this campus) is known among other Aramark campus employees as being "the worst location on campus" or "the prison". To sum up Aramark's Rebel Market has non-caring/greedy management; supervisors who don't give breaks; zero health benefits for part-time employees; schedule availability is ignored; wage and hour violations; low morale with revolving door of employees; you have to pay to park there to work (all locations); a lying (or delusional?) verbally abusive, micromanaging food service director; supervisors that play favorites; a cruel manager...the list could go on.

3.0
Jun 15, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

I work for Aramark on a college campus so most of the other coworkers would be other college students. Give or take a few of the locals living nearby. So often or not I would be working with friends. If you work really hard you get a chance to be noticed for that and can get rewards such as gift cards, prizes, and PTO. Not the greatest gifts but can be pleasant surprises. With Aramark being prevalent around the area and the State, you can transfer to other locations easily enough if need be.

Cons

Biggest cons is the management. I don't know if it was the locations I worked at or what but management here was really lack luster. Everyone pretended to help while looking for excuses to yell at you and act like they knew what they were doing. The moment they didn't need to be there they would hide back in their offices and look at their phones for hours until we were swamped with customers and had to come help. Aside from management, moving up in wage is little to impossible. They can only boost you up $0.25 if you get a great evaluation from your location manager. But you only get raises once a year. If you take up a supervisor position you can get a $1.00 raise but that position just makes you the scapegoat for whatever manager you have at your location. Last thing would be discipline and hiring. They will yell at you all they want but you would never be fired. Had lots of coworkers just not show up for work with no notice, which would lead to immediate firing due to their policy, but they still didn't fire them. We would be left short handed and without help because of this guy and they still kept him scheduled instead of replacing him. That aside they will hire anyone with a pulse but don't fire anyone so if they hired terrible people you are stuck working with them until they give up.

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