Dairy Queen. Teenage paycheck. - Kitchen Cook Dairy Queen Employee Review

2.0
Mar 28, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Sometimes you can relax but most of the time its go go go. And its really not fun what you have to be "go go go"ing on. Greasy hamburgers, fries, etc. Most people know what it is like to work in fast food and this is not much different. The only plus here is that ice cream is involved. So if you happen to work at one of the franchises with nice management, you might get ice cream. Yay.

Cons

Bad management. They need to learn how to run a business. It wasn't a horrible job but they would sometimes even yell at employees. Not good!

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Pros

-Great coworkers -Decent food -Awesome desserts -Fairly easy to operate fryers and ice cream machinery -Teaches basic math and customer service skills easily transferable to other jobs

Cons

-Rude customers (creepy old men, smokers, demanding/excessive requests, etc) -Entitled regulars (were up at 6 AM daily banging on the doors to be let in and several looked down on employees for working in fast food) -Ice cream bags and drink boxes were a pain to carry -POS system was ok to operate but got complicated at times (would overcharge customers or be difficult to find certain items) -Drive Thru system (headset and speaker) were a pain to operate, especially when customers whispered or when it was raining -Strict and hard to manage Drive Thru time requirements (maximum of 3:30) -Two managers were fired for stealing…

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