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Panda Express reviews

3.6

60% would recommend to a friend

(5,254 total reviews)
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Andrew and Peggy Cherng

81% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Panda Express has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 5,254 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Panda Express employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Restaurants & Food Service industry (3.7 stars).

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5K reviews
4.0
Jul 18, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

-simple work -uniform supplied -manager at college park, ms location was a pleasure to work for

Cons

-food not supplied for free to employees -mindless work -not much else bad to say--just a regular restaurant job

1.0
Jul 12, 2015

Not my cup of tea

Recommend
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Pros

It has competitive pay compared to other fast food places, higher than minimum wage to say the least. Free food when you take your break. Flexible schedules for those who are balancing two jobs or have classes, they make an effort to work with you... even if they may forget that you asked for a week off two months in advance and kept reminding them monthly as well as placed it on the calendar.

Cons

You only get a 10 minute break, it would be nice if it was 15-20 minutes to catch a breather from the sudden rush of customers. It's stressful when management tells you something "new" that you can't do every week you come in. First it was do not write all the orders on one box because it doesn't look good... it's easier and FASTER for us, cashiers, to do our job though. They would train me to do something for months and then suddenly, they say "Oh, you're not supposed to do that... ever." I've been doing it for three months and you didn't bother telling me... why?! So if you work for Panda Express, be prepare of random things that was never said and then suddenly spring up on you. Oh, and be prepare for customers coming in just to yell at you for doing a bad job... their lives are so miserable that they come in to let off steam on people they think who can't speak English well. They will use any excuses to blame something on you... even if they order Chow Mein verbally, what they really meant was Fried Rice physically. If you can handle that, I guess you'll do well here.

3.0
Jul 9, 2015

The busiest job you will ever have.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Always doing something, highly understaffed, management knew that we could pick up the slack, which we almost did, but it cut into customer satisfaction.

Cons

Management tried to cut corners to up their profits, which we already extremely high. Some of our equipment was not up to date and we were understaffed.

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