Good entry level job for customer service and leadership experience
Pros
Great opportunities for cross training- if you’re competent and management likes you, you can work your way up through all the FOH departments within a year or two. Great entry level experience that looks good on your resume, especially if you can work your way up to a leadership position. I’d recommend starting here if you’ve never been employed to learn customer service, stress management, teamwork and communication, and basic restaurant/service skills.
Cons
Coworker culture is odd. It’s hard to get shift covers because there’s a habit of putting money up for people to cover you, so if you don’t put money up you probably won’t get a cover since other people are putting up to $100-$200 just for something like a food runner shift. A lot of the workers there are bums with drug addictions and I’ve seen too many people develop bad vaping and drinking habits and tank their GPA after working there and befriending their coworkers. Also people come in high all the time / hide in the back to hit their pens and doomscroll so if you’re competent and have a work ethic you tend to have to pick up their slack. It’s also a really long process to move up to server unless you have connections to management, so if that’s your goal, be prepared to wait years.