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
1.0
Sep 19, 2022

Good starter jobs

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

payed to little for amount of work

Cons

pay, benefits, life-work balance, management terrible

2.0
Sep 12, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Had good co-workers, had some nice customers at times.

Cons

Always short staffed, never got more than 25 hours a week, dealing with extremely rude customers, a bit dangerous because too many homeless would enter building and they would destroy things at times.

3.0
Aug 28, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good starter job build up communication skills

Cons

youll meet some of the worst hungry people ever no benefits they got rid of the 5 dollar nachos

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