Culinary Dropout reviews

Favoritism, narcissism, micro-management, and fake excuses is all I got while working there. Managers do not adhere to availability yet, still ask you to work more hours than you have available. And if they schedule you outside your availability you “need to find coverage for yourself”. If you’re closing and want some food, forget it they don’t allow you to order anything or sit because “you should be able to take care of your needs before and after your shift”. You want time off? It’s a request which we all know, but who gets their requests approved first? THE FAVORITES. :) You try to move up within the company then you better make friends with higher ups or be white because otherwise you are not making the cut. You take a sip of water for a quick second at the server station? WRONG, your manager just walked through the doors after being in their midday meeting for 2 hours or after standing by the kitchen doors while on their phone and get yelled at to run hot food or run dishware. You got scheduled a double? Too bad no incentive for you, just suck it up and pay your normal employee price, when you’ve already been scheduled 31 hours. You want to move up to bartend? Too bad the managers only pick their favorites. You want to be on the events team? Aw dang, you have to be friends with the event scheduling manager. You want to have a 100% secret shop so you don’t get fired?? Tough luck! Because even though managers are never on the floor, the kitchen always takes more than the designated time, bar is backed up… you’ll just get fired. Not because you didn’t greet the table in time but because you didn’t look out for your server section neighbor’s tables! All this is just to show how messed up this place is. Managers think they are doing something when they just create more rules and restrictions for the people for no reason. It’s ridiculous, they wonder why good people can’t stick around. It’s because we aren’t going to work for 2 hour side work that we can’t finish because the managers want us to “reset all the restaurant before we do our other work” but still tell us to get off the clock as quickly as possible and not dilly dally in the coop office. Like literally go listen to yourselves, you sound like an idiot. They are taking advantage of the people who just need a job and pay the bills, if that’s what they want to do then so be it. Don’t give us the speech of looking out for the guest when management is just looking out for their paychecks (bonuses they receive for meeting numbers). Every server there is white, and I’ve heard they only hire good looking people who fit their aesthetic, if they don’t fit they make some lame excuse to not hire them.

The management is extremely unprofessional and rude. They talk down to anyone that doesn't kiss up to them and try calling you out in front of customers (i.e yelling across the bar that you need to come now while in the middle of speaking to guests). The trainers loudly said in front of customers that I should not need recipe cards on the first night of service, took the drink I was making out of my hands, then proceeded to use the cards themselves literally all night. Mind you, their whole job is knowing these drinks that they supposedly have been making for years, that they expected us to memorize in and out but do not apply these standards to themselves. They put me on as a server on OPENING NIGHT after doing bartending training for weeks, Said they would "teach me" after letting them know I hadn't served in years, only to fire me that same day for putting a tray of glasses down to avoid dropping them on customer. They pick and choose who to discriminate against, telling people their outfits are not appropriate and sending them home while others are wearing the exact same if not worse. My one night behind the bar I was put on as a "floater", jumping in when needed and talking to guests. They did not let me make one drink, literally taking the glasses out of my hand, and then complained (to coworkers not me) that I did nothing but talk to guests the whole time...as in doing the job I was assigned to do. Just really weird vibes and very uppity rude management who think they're all that. They did the same to other coworkers, who coincidentally were also not white blonde girls but black and asian, who did not even last a week due to the same criticisms and nitpicking. The rude tones, looks, and the acting like a server trainer is the ultimate life goal is just weird. Never had such a bad experience with a supposedly professionally run restaurant.