Zips Car Wash reviews

3.0

41% would recommend to a friend

(201 total reviews)
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Pete Nani

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39% positive business outlook

Zips Car Wash has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 201 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Zips Car Wash employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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201 reviews
3.0
Aug 2, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

If you build your site. They will not bother you. Ever. Too many fires in other places for them to care about a place that atleast looks like its doing fine on paper. My DM visits me once every 2 months. But you have to run your numbers and say the right things.

Cons

Strict chain of command policy. Anything above my supervisor will never speak to us. I personally have very little respect for them. They push weird things outside of the major KPIs that we bonus on. We have turned to spinning signs outside our sites in what is clearly a desperate attempt to pretend we understand why we are not getting the business we projected. This is ultimately why I'm looking elsewhere for employment. It's not the additional work. It is the strong stench of incompetence in our executive leadership. Also. There are 0 opportunities to move up in this company. I have 3 people in my market with a combined 21 years of experience and none of them have even had a conversation about moving up.

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Zips Car Wash Response
1y
We appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback and concerns with us. It is disappointing to hear you feel leadership has fallen short of your expectations. We pride ourselves on offering opportunities to set up employees for career success, so we regret to hear you feel that growth opportunities have not met your expectations. We encourage any current team member who may share similar questions or concerns to share their feedback with their direct supervisor so that we may address them. Thank you for being a part of our team.
1.0
Jan 30, 2024

Do not Work for the Company.

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Pros

There are none, literally none.

Cons

Zips is a company that only looks at the final dollar, and no other considerations are made. Working at the site that I work at, is falling apart inside and out. They have just now realized that we do not have the proper "emergency Stops" at our site when working in the tunnel. We only have what has been described as a "pause." This company only looks out for what is best for them, when asking for the needed things at our site they tell us that the budget is not available at this time (even though we are almost 2 months into the new year) and they have made stipulations to when the facility managers will be able to spend money on the site again. We consistently have issues that customers come to let us know about and there is nothing that any employee onsite would be able to do to correct the issue. If you are to issue a rewash for anyone you are yelled at and told not to do that. On top of that there is nothing that is able to be done for memberships on site and when customers call and talk to customer service they tell them that they need to come to the site and correct the problem. If any changes are made on site they yell and let us know that we are to do nothing, that is customer services job. Do not get me started on the membership commission plan, many different higher managers use this as the selling point to work for zips. Even though, the company themselves create so many different contingencies in order to receive the commission. They encourage not sharing all of the information about the membership, telling us to not inform customers that after the promotion that they signed up for, they will be charged anywhere from 15-35$ more the next month. After bringing up the way in which employees go about getting memberships (basically setting up memberships on the screen for people to just sign up without even knowing) higher management said that was a great idea and to continue getting the sells with that method. The corporate company does not look out for customers nor the employees. After seeing the news about the loss of life at an Asheville, NC location due to issues with the emergency "brake" at the site, nothing has been done to update procedures and we were told that we are to stay later to complete the work that is needed to be completed. Instead of correcting the problem they change schedules, expectations that differ from the hiring of employees and then expect even if all work is completed to be on site until a specific time. If you are a manager, they put so many different disqualifying factors to your "monthly bonus" that it is impossible to get. If you are at a site that does not have working equipment that could affect your bonus, good luck getting it. They will not complete work orders that need equipment purchased or services completed because they are not spending any money even though we are almost a whole month after the new year. Do everything you can to stay away from this company as a customer and employee.

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Zips Car Wash Response
2y
We greatly appreciate you bringing your concerns to our attention and are sorry to hear your experience working here is not meeting your expectations. Please know we take safety very seriously; employee and customer safety are our top priorities. If your emergency stop equipment is not working or if you feel there are other safety concerns at the site, we implore you to escalate this matter immediately so we can ensure this is resolved right away. You can communicate your concerns to your Site Manager, Maintenance Technician, District Manager, Operations Director, and HR Business Partner. We want to work alongside you to improve our overall operations to provide a safe environment and great working experience for you to complete your daily tasks and offer the best car wash experience to every customer you serve. We look forward to hearing from you directly to get your site updated to meet our standard operating protocols.
1.0
Sep 3, 2024

Don’t recommend

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Pros

Location was close to home

Cons

No work life balance Upper management yells at employees if goals aren’t met for issues that are out of the site managers control No support from upper management No growth opportunities beyond site manager No solutions to concerns HR doesn’t support managers they look for reasons to fire managers You will be asked to do more of upper managements job They don’t respect vacation time and will call you while you’re on vacation Hires outside for district managers who have zero industry experience Constant work orders are never addressed yet sales goals increase

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Zips Car Wash Response
1y
We appreciate you sharing your concerns. We respect and value every member of our team, so we are disappointed to hear you feel you did not receive the support from management we work to provide. We pride ourselves on offering opportunities to set up employees for career success, so we regret to hear you feel that training and growth has not met your expectations. We are also disappointed to learn that you felt you didn't have a good work-life balance here. We are constantly working to become a more efficient organization and we always want our team to share ideas on how we can improve. Thank you for providing this feedback and for your contributions to making cars shine! We wish you the best in your next role.
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