Area manager - Not the brightest outlook - Area Manager Chipotle Employee Review

3.0
Jan 9, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company has an amazing vision. They have done a great job of connecting the vision into operations which helps everyone go after the same goal. It's something that isn't easy to do, but Chipotle did a great job getting everyone to go after this one goal. The food is also delicious. Free food can't be beat.

Cons

The vision is great, but once Chipotle was hit with the food safety outbreak, the vision was pushed to the side. Many people left because it wasn't about the people anymore. To make matters worse, the CEOs and upper management had no idea what they were doing. They did not know how to fix the problem yet expected everyone else to follow everything they rolled out. It was complete chaos and no end in sight.

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Learning and growing to cultivate your own career path into a competent General Manager. The hours are longer than regular but the position is labeled as salary hourly with a minimum of 50 hours per week which guarantees 10 hours if overtime per week.

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The long hours can be tiring and the expectations are less than or equivalent to that of a General Manager and depending who your boss is dependent on what you learn and how you can grow.

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