Raising Cane's reviews

The HIPO (management) program is much more involved and I think it's a little underhanded, needing to perform manager duties as a standard crew-member for no extra rate until considered "HIPO-ready", then you MIGHT be promoted AT SOME POINT when an opening is available. But the option does exist, and that's way more than I can say for other places I've worked. It's not totally unreal to take on extra work for no benefit for a promotion, but honestly even the promotion is... kinda bad! You'll need to do A LOT of physical and mental health sacrifice to really move up the chain, and even then I've heard it's very stressful despite being lucrative. At Cane's we have RPS, or in other words you are being watched for any mistakes. Over the cameras, by your management, or if the higher-ups decide to personally visit; I don't think I need to mention that this is stressful. Quite literally everyone dislikes corporate and meeting their slimy, fake personalities it's not hard to understand why. Imagine some big-shot coming in, fist-bumping everyone despite half the crew not even knowing who they are and then having them backseat everyone in the kitchen about some meaningless dribble like "oh boy you can't leave THAT rag in THAT sink at THIS time." for as long as they decide to stay, which can be hours. Cane's runs on a very corporate, very PR-orientated platform. They want to look good, in fact, I'm kind of convinced that's their main priority. They want to look good, to potential employees, to current employees to customers, etc. All the sponsorships, the proudly displayed text on the glass front door that Raising Canes is rated top-100 employers, blah blah blah. When you're in here you'll realize its just whole lot of nonsense and Cane's is just like any other fast food job with a really nice marketing team. There's a reason it's often called the Cane's Cult, as this corporate sliminess continues throughout your whole Cane's career. They have all this merchandise and "swag" and sure some of it is cute, but in the end the business is literally advertising their own merchandise to their own employees as a "benefit" of working there. Like thank god I got that Cane's COSMETIC hard-hat for that one year anniversary instead of a raise. The scheduling. It really depends on your RL, it can either be great or practically absurd. By the time I quit, I was working split shifts (say, 12pm to 5pm, leaving, then coming back for 9pm to 2/3am), clopens (2/3am out, 7am in) and generally just constantly flopping shift rotations that had me working first, third, first, third constantly. I had NO life. Whatever free time I had was just nothing, because I was utterly exhausted and drained and didn't want to do anything. I went from a solid 8 hour sleeper with zero insomnia to maybe 4 if I'm lucky, interspersed through the day in light naps if I had time. Even when I did have time off to sleep, I never could since my sleep schedule was utterly destroyed. This also made me start to suck way more at my job and care way less, so what goes around comes around. I know you might be thinking, but wait! Talk to your scheduling manager! The thing is, I did, several times. Let me tell you, what might be even more annoying than having your boss tell you "no, I won't change your schedule" is having them pretend that it was some mistake or making an excuse every single time and then immediately doing again the next schedule. To put it into perspective, I've done irregular shift work for a very long time, and this job was too much for me - a scheduling manager at an actual restaurant, my very own mother, took a look at the schedule I sent her so we could make time to set up a birthday party and she asked me point-blank if my boss was on crack. This is the moment when I decided to quit (though I had already been working on getting a new job.) Remember when I said a solid crew and management team makes a good store? I've worked under both conditions. Let me tell you, there is nothing in the world that will make me go back to a badly running Cane's, I'd rather be homeless. Imagine everything bad about normal fast food and then combine that with everything bad about Raising Cane's way of running fast food. You have all these policies, some pointless I admit, but most strive to make the place run like a well-oiled machine. The issue is the enforcement of these policies. RPS always will, but bad management makes it a flip of a coin for everything. We're pre-bumping today because ____ is on, we aren't today because ____ is on. Our times suck? good thing manager ____ put in twenty blank tickets and counted thirty seconds for each to fix them. It makes literally every time you're called out on RPS nonsense infuriating since its clearly hypocritical and you probably just watched the manager calling you out on it break RPS minutes prior. I worked at a store that was on that Cane's top percentile list for RPS despite all this because it's all just a bunch of theater acting for the bigwigs. Be ready to be berated for stuff you were doing literally the day before without issue, and then berated the day following for not doing the stuff you just got scolded for yesterday by different managers.

Can feel like highschool depending on the crewmembers