El Pollo Loco reviews

3.4

55% would recommend to a friend

(712 total reviews)
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Liz Williams

63% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

El Pollo Loco has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 712 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The El Pollo Loco 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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712 reviews
5.0
Sep 25, 2020

Working at el pollo loco

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The will hire you at the moment

Cons

Is really hard for them to give you a raise no matter how hard you work

1.0
Sep 20, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

50% off food when working and 25% off when you are not working.

Cons

This place is always understaffed. They don't like putting workers or send you home early just to save hours. You don't get your breaks. You only get a 30, and they send you on your break when its convenient for the mod. If you work for 2 hours they'll send you on your break. You only get a 30, you don't get your two 10 minute breaks. They always rush you to take out orders through the dine in area and drive thru. Because of the "timer" , you can be in drive thru by yourself taking orders, packing the food , and charging the customers. They'll expect you to have the timer under 3 minutes. They have unrealistic goals and they always kiss up to the bigger bosses. I've been here for 5 years.

1.0
Sep 20, 2020

No family

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

free meal, hours, suppose like family,

Cons

too much stress, labor timers to be low, upper management is very rude and ask to have good numbers,no time for lunch, customers are very rude no protection from customers being very violent. Since the Covid 19 started they took very long to protect employees. No gloves or mask available. They expect the employees to clean the whole restaurant. Also some other stores have had some positive employees and they still work with the virus and they react until more employees result positive. They are more focus on labor timers than the emphedemic.

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