Darden reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(2,844 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 2,844 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
Sep 10, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Tips are usually faily well. Have been there a few years and it is easy to make friends with some of the other servers... Being a server for olive Garden has made me a far more outgoing person due to haveing to try to sell wine to each one of your tables. We have some managers who understand what it is like to be a single mom and work but then others dont seem to know what it is like so i guess it is the same as with other restraunts in that since. Overall i wouldnt leave it to go some where else though.

Cons

99% yearly turnover of staff and managers so rules are always changing. All the rules are made up by the Gm so if you get put in a new store where the gm is always changing it is sometimes hard to know what is expected of you. Schedualing is also very hard because you want to work the busy shift just as everyone else so it is sometimes hard to work the hours that you want. Also the busy time is in the evenings so it doesnt leave much time for family if you do manage to work the hours which you will make the most money during

5.0
Sep 2, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

It is an amazing restaurant with great management and a tight knit family of staff.

Cons

Getting time off when you are sick or when your kids are sick is sometimes difficult.

1.0
Aug 4, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

It is in Orlando and is a Fortune 500 company. When Joe Lee was in charge it was fantastic and he listened and mingled among his employees.

Cons

Upper management are insulated by HR. HR are so top heavy at Darden, that everything gets bottle-necked through this department. All of the top echelon seem to have HR's complete support regardless, which breeds a very unhealthy working enviroment.

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