Cook Out reviews

No work life balance. As a manager you are required a minimum 50 he week but usually looks like 55-60 and can be much more when staffing issues arise. company structure is based off of smoke and lies. They pay you really well and make lots of grand gestures and false promises. This makes you stay because you have to take a pay cut to leave and they always owe you bonuses which you forfeit if you quit or get fired before it’s paid out which is on a delayed system so they always owe you money! They expect us to hire an amazing crew and train them which is a great expectation but then they hire people for your management team you wouldn’t hire as crew! And their training material was just updated and is still archaic. As well as their paperwork system being from the stone ages. They also preach everyone follows the rules and advancement is based off performance and both are complete lies. Everyone is sleeping with everyone and drugged out all the way up to the top! Then the people who work their butt off to follow the rules are constantly harassed over the smallest little discretion by the ones sleeping with coworkers and staff and doing drugs. It’s a crazy world of its own… it’s wild and some of that makes it exciting for young people but sets everyone up for failure. Oh and for insurance for my family it cost $666 every 2 weeks and it still had a high deductible!

Cookout expects Cookout to be your first and only priority. If you are a GM don't expect to have anything approaching a life because the moment one thing goes wrong in your store, you're hauled in to fix it. It doesn't matter if you just came off a 16 hour shift or if it's your day off or even if it's something an assistant manager should be able to handle on their own. There are minimum 11 hour shifts with no breaks and often no time to carry out administrative tasks. It's a thoroughly exhausting and stressful job. Plus while some people are amazing often than not the staff is just out to cover their own butts and will not hesitate to lie about your or themselves to their own benefit.