Darden reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(2,845 total reviews)

Rick Cardenas

72% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Darden has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,845 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Darden 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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3K reviews
3.0
Dec 16, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Store management will generally work with you to provide a decent schedule. Those willing to work can make a living. For a restaurant job it's above average of chains.

Cons

Upper management generally has no previous restaurant experience therefore they don't understand day to day issues. Hourly employees are not encouraged to try to advance. Hourly employees are treated like children

4.0
Nov 10, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Made 8 an hour and sometimes could make 30 - 60 in tips per night. If you run food you can get free meals. Some servers you dont need to help out as much and they end up tipping you better. You can average about $15 for an hourly wage

Cons

You work 10 to 12 hours on a double shift which sucks On Friday and Saturdays you split tips with another busser sometimes and barely bring home $120 and thats if u got lucky enough to have great servers on your side who tipped close to 10% Work 8 hours on friday and saturday night and overall make $120 while some servers make $200 in less amount of time and then give you a 5% tip for your 8 hours of bussing ur ass off. Your going to average about $450 a week for 40hours, (trust me, no other busser in all of olive garden does as much as myself, Running the food, pre-bussing, serving, getting drinks, cleaning the tables, rolling silverware and setting up the side station.) The servers will pretty much ask for your help on every little chore sometimes and then will give you HALF of what another server gives you. Average tip out per server is about $7 and theres only 5 to 7 of them for yourself. While they make an average of $7 per table and can flip 3 tables in an hour. Bussers are compensated about 8 by the business and another 7 by the servers together per hour for 15 an hour. ALL IN ALL ... JUST BECOME A SERVER ....SEPARATE YOURSELF FROM THEIR PROBLEMS AND FOCUS DIRECTLY ON THE CUSTOMERS....

4.0
Nov 5, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

A great place to work to make fast cash. Loved being able to go in broke and come home with $100-$150 a night. I loved the fact that server's didn't do sidework.

Cons

Working long and late hours, put a lot of strain on my back, and came home smelling like the kitchen.

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