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3.7

63% would recommend to a friend

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Chris Tomasso

69% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

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3.0
Dec 28, 2017

Depends on the market

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Pros

If you're in the market management is supportive, and coaches personal and professional development. If not they can be disrespectful, crude, unavailable and fail to work full schedules regularly.

Cons

They're long hard days. Managers are expected to perform 6 hours of nonmanagement tasks, ie cook on the line, deep cleaning, or working as a host. You're basically a cook who writes schedules, and is treated poorly by midlevel corporate leaders, RDO's, RVP's and often SRVP 's

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5.0
Sep 18, 2017

Great company to work for.

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Pros

The training is very detailed and leaves you with few to no issues in transition to serving tables. Both pro but sometimes con is the teamwork aspect of this company everyone helps everyone no matter what in order to give the best experience possible to our guests.

Cons

The "steps of service" sometimes can seem a little pushy for customers to leave and if is a complaint a lot of us servers receive. The teamwork aspect can also hurt the harder working employees, giving full service to a table so another server receives the tip is sometimes a hard pill to swallow.

2.0
Mar 27, 2017

crew

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Pros

nice teamwork nice manager there.

Cons

no insurance working every sat an sunday

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