Care more about saving the company money than the morale and well-being of the employees. - Server Applebee's Employee Review

2.0
Nov 27, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great people, made a lot of great friends here, can make a lot of money while in school, they will work around your class schedule

Cons

management does not know how to order the appropriate amount of inventory or prep the appropriate amount of food in the morning to get through the shift, management keeps too many servers on when we are slow, but then cuts the floor for our half-price happy hour where cheap customers come in and trash the place, rarely will the management help out without their horns coming out and being absolute jerks to the employees while it gets busy, the customer is always right means that the employee is always wrong...every time, get ready to get your job threatened every day if the management does not meet their 'flavor-of-the-week' goals that are in place by the upper management, the franchise owners also decided that it would be beneficial to lower the wages of the to-go people and the hosts and make the servers pay their difference through a tip-out of total sales (required mind you)...oh wait, and the to-go person doesn't get a share of the tip out even though their wages have been docked there is too much negative to put it all, good thing I make more money here than I would at an hourly job otherwise, I would leave

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 27, 2026
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Pros

Short drive, Half off food, Will work with you with your schedule.

Cons

GM unprofessional. Not appreciated for your experience and what u can bring to the table. Tips were poor. Poor customer base. Antiquated POS. No patience to train properly. Are bullies. Heating and AC do not work properly. Extreme favoritism. Do not recommend. Oh and if you didn't make your sales quota, u were told you would lose hours. If a table walked out without paying, they made u pay the difference. Callous, unprofessional, employees came last. Sales is all that matters.

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