Terrible place to work - Line Cook, Prep Cook, Trainer, Neighborhood Expert Applebee's Employee Review

SOO many.. Brace yourself.. Restaurant business is a terrible place to work. Have no appreciation for their good employees. No paid sick days, no paid vacation, no benefits, terrible raises, no bonuses, no holiday parties, etc Fast paced, stressful environment.Typically never get a break unless your a smoker. Even then its maybe 5 minutes. Management never wants to pay you what your worth, and even if they could, upper management won't allow it. Everybody is expendable in their minds. They could always find someone dumb enough to work harder for less money. Like i said corporate upper management always tieing the hands of lower management and have their noses in everything causes issues all the way down the chain. Never get overtime. Also they base their labor on business for the day so if your scheduled say a six hour day but business is slow somebody is goin to have to go home. So your never guaranteed to get "your hours" Even if you have been there for years and have a pretty much fixed schedule of say 38 hours a week you could get 39 one week you could get 30 the next. Since its fairly easy to get a job there. Your forced to put up with lazy,unreliable people and the majority people you work with lack either intellect, common sense, or both. Doesnt matter how hard you work or how many shifts and favors you do for them. it will never come back to you in the end. Management always focuses on everything you could be doing better or not doing rather then noticing what you excel at and anything extra you for the betterment of the restaurant. Next to no opportunity of moving up unless you plan on being there for over 10 years and even then they bring in people outside the business over promoting somebody within. Question i asked myself a long time ago is why bust my @$$ for a company that never plans on giving me ANYTHING in return.