Taco Bell reviews

3.3

46% would recommend to a friend

(13,863 total reviews)

Sean Tresvant

56% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Taco Bell has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 13,863 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Taco Bell 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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14K reviews
3.0
Mar 6, 2014

favoritism

Anonymous employee
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Pros

If you like a fast past environment this is great for you. Most of the year even in a slower store you are always moving. Most stores do a rotation of assignments so it is hard to get bored.

Cons

Depending on if you work franchise or corporate, could depend on the issues. I worked with a franchise. The biggest problem was favoritism, they would advance people that had been their the longest not necessarily who worked the hardest (or more hours.) If you want advancement then you better be great at politics, if you don't like them than don't plan on moving to far up. Shift leads are glorified assistant, and if not careful easily taken advantage of for cheaper pay and more hours. In my case I wanted to grow with the company, learned as much as would be allowed to be taught. Was pretty well doing most gm work before I realized that gm was getting all credit. Then when position opened up it was given to someone that barely worked any hours, but had been there longer than I had.

3.0
Feb 26, 2014

working there.

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Pros

Great food, nice place to work form

Cons

No time to really work with the mgmt team due to the fact you are always on the line.

2.0
Feb 26, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

before working taco bell i had no sense of work ethic, no reason to put effort into making something of my life. I hold myself to a much higher standard now because of the core values i picked up there. I came out of my shy shell and became a great people person, loved working with the guests and making their day better from a laugh to even if it was just a smile and my attention. as well i learned a passion for preparing food, i now only see any career for me being in the food industry always learning, striving for more and always moving forward.

Cons

both locations i worked at just did not seem to have the drama, out of work life problems or respect/ethics under control. while i got along with my co workers most of the time there always seemed to lack the understanding work is work time and professional is how you act. When i transferred locations from being unhappy the new location offered to fast track me to crew train and manager i got the crew train position fairly easily after already having a year in but never made it to manager because the request to be trained hands on and taught to do the job visually was never made. in fact i was expected to know how to run a shift accurately being told where the answers are to skip the videos in my training and just ask questions, take a night and a day shadowing a managers shift and memorize some key points for the RGMs questions. i did not feel like i could take pride and have confidence, maybe learn as i go but not have confidence in my job that way so i never made the move. third problem, i found out after a year and some odd months that i never even received my promotion raise, my review raise i was talked to about or even my yearly.

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