Main Event reviews

3.3

44% would recommend to a friend

(1,259 total reviews)
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Chris Morris

49% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Main Event has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,259 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Main Event employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Arts, Entertainment & Recreation industry (3.9 stars).

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4.0
Jan 20, 2014

Great place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Excellent management, opportunity to be promoted from within, good benefits, strong approach to core values, competitive pay in the industry

Cons

The idea that facial hair (outside of a moustache) is forbidden, is archaic. If we are judging ourselves by the standard of the Marine corps, that's all well and good, but that standard is not a buffet. Either implement it across the board and put your employees through decorum bootcamp, or understand that you are here to serve the people of each community we are represented in. Why we assume as a corporation that those people would not trust someone with a trimmed goatee is outside of reason.

3.0
Jun 28, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Flexibility in scheduling -Great staff -Fun management team - Great environment - Growth opportunity if willing to stick around - Employee Discounts on products and activities

Cons

-Low starting pay, it's a entry level hourly, meaning minimum wage as a departmental employee. - Long hours, often times you will work into the wee hours of the morning, say good bye to a social life if you want to try and work full time. - Customers can be awful, its a place for cheap entertainment at times because regular hours are competitively priced. Way to expensive for a family to go more than once a month without a special to help drive down the initial upfront cost. Often times that means cheap service since you can't staff a building of your PPA is below normal rates. - Upper management can be non-existent and seeks little to no insight from operational managers for LTO improvement and daily operational improvements. -Bonus structure is nice, but not worth the hours you put in as a salaried manager. At most you MIGHT see an extra 4 grand a year from your bonuses, with a max cap of 15% of your regular salary if you consistently over perform. - Nothing to increase moral of management or staff, no sponsored events, recognition parties happen only when budget constraints allow and are always on property. -Merit increase for hourly staff is only once a year, and no "exceptional" raises are allowed outside the normal merit increase cycle. Seems like you have to at times threaten to quit before a raise is even considered,

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