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63% would recommend to a friend

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Chris Tomasso

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61% positive business outlook

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4.0
Feb 21, 2017

Server

Recommend
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Pros

Good money over 100 per day typically, off around 3 pm everyday, customers are easy,tables turn fast, team oriented atmosphere. Not very much side work or opening work. Corporate so the company is very structured for training and how you greet a table and how you write checks.

Cons

You will probably work almost every Saturday and Sunday, so don't expect to have weekends off. When you first start some of the girls are rude and not friendly. There are not any heat lamps so you have to drop everything you're doing to run food. On a Sunday when it is slammed and you're the only one running food, it gets extremely frustrating. And instead of management stepping in and telling slackers to pick it up and be a team player, they don't say anything and that's when the girls get confrontational with each other. You might have to buss your own tables when it's busy or at the end of the day when the busier decides to cut himself off the floor. Openers get there at 6:30 am. Also you ring your checks into the computer just to print the receipt. You have a hand written check you turn in to the kitchen window which they are very specific with how you write them.

4.0
Jun 28, 2016

Best Serving Job

Recommend
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Pros

If you're at a good location you're able to work good hours, make good money, and are given money for going to school if you're a college student.

Cons

The company is extremely top heavy - extreme micromanagement. Managers and cooks are treated poorly.

2.0
Jun 19, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Food is great People I work with are very nice (overall) The look and feel of the restaurant is good

Cons

Overly demanding physically Very low pay for the amount of work Lots of seemingly open lies from management to just get you to shut up about the situation

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