All about their employee's but not as much their managers. - Restaurant Manager Darden Employee Review

2.0
Jan 25, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Good place to start out in the restaurant game. You will learn all parts of the restaurant, as they cycle you through. The job is pretty easy to be successful at.

Cons

Corporate corporate corporate! In the worst way, they don’t give you the ability to think or be innovative. Every situation is different, unique, and specific to that particular case. Decision can’t be made by just hitting the “next” button. Pay is ok....,You cannot get a huge raise, and they are very regulated and small. It really doesn't matter what you have done, you are just a number and you will receive the same low raise as the rest of the pawns. Biggest problem I have is upper management’s lack of support for their managers. They are all about their hourly employees, and not their managers. They really want to be part of the fortune 100 companies list. So they give a ton of power to the hourly employees and strip it from the managers. The problem with this is that all of the hourly people know this to be true, so they exploit it!

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Cons

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Cons

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