technician

attendant

line cook

maintenance technician

go-kart mechanic

APEX ENTERTAINMENT

Before the pandemic this place had inexperienced management but seemed to be figuring things out. Everyone's schedule was emailed to everyone else in a giant spreadsheet that was hard to read and didn't seem to be created with any kind of strategy but it got the job done unless you accidentally looked at the wrong line.... Some managers really seemed to want to build a good culture and help people succeed. I liked interacting with guests and helping them have a good time. It was unfair how some people would be complete slackers and the rest of the staff would carry most of the work. Then the pandemic happened and Apex showed it's true colors. Just search for information about the fines and complaints and the things that the owner has done. They care nothing about the safety of their employees or customers. No one was even encouraged to wear masks and there are no signs or spacing or barriers. Training was to have every employee do all the jobs. Maybe that could be needed because they couldn't pay for as many people to work at a time but that training didn't include anything about keeping people safe. There are other employees worried about interacting with people without masks and complaining to each other but afraid to speak up and then there are some who just don't like wearing masks so are happy to be able to get away with it. Every time theres a new story about the complaints they put up some more signs about masks but still aren't actually enforcing them even among employees and theres no one to bring this up to without being worried you just won't get any more hours. I wouldn't work for a company like this if I had a better option even after the pandemic because they only care about making as much money as possible even if it means spreading a deadly virus.

Working for Apex was fun at first. The whole team got along great and it was a joy to go to work. The job was easy, come in, put money away in the registers, make sure the schedule looks correct and everyone is where they need to be, do walkthroughs of the building, follow up with any maintenance issues, corral the team for "pre-shift" and then you're off to the races helping guests and the restaurant run food.

Within the first year we had gone through 3 GMs and a handful of managers. The F&B side can't keep managers in role for too long. The only solid teams were Attractions and even that side had their division based of floor. The top floor thought they were better than the first floor, Go-Kart team members thought they were jocks. It was basically a high school.

Apex likes to market themselves as a family environment, everyone is on the same team, but in reality they just care about their bottom line. Certain managers are allowed to skate by and have relations with servers and bartenders without any consequences. If you're a hardworking manager and prove yourself, you're taken advantage of and constantly have "carrots" dangled in front of your face as "incentives" to perform without any actual follow through. You'll also be forced to "quit", essentially being fired in a polite way, if you don't fall in line. Overall, stay away.

While working there with no previous disciplinary issues, I had to call out due to a medical issue that required visiting a doctor. Ever since, I was never put on the schedule again, with no word from a manager or any representative of the company over why this was happening. It was very unprofessional for a company who preaches that they value their employees. After calling to inquire about this issue, I was told that I was put on a "low priority" scheduling bracket, and that If I wanted to be reconsidered for scheduling that I should come in for a meeting with managers. Due to previous unprofessional-ism, such as using a important room for one of the attractions to scold employees for up to a half hour at a time, and many others examples of blatant misuse of employee resources, I decided to look for work elsewhere. After working there for over a year (keep in mind that the company has had this operating location for less than two years now.) I was let go with no warning or reasoning behind this.

Its a decent job if you need a job. Management is great and are chill. The coworkers are great to communicate with to pass time. Its a relatively easy job to do. If you are in attractions you will be interacting with guess the most but will have the funner side of the job like escape room, axe throwing, bowling lanes, go karts, bumper cars etc. Severs and bartenders as well as bar backs will also be the most interactive on the food and bar side of things. Busser/food runner (more than likely you will be one or the other depending on whats more needed at the time) work with the kitchen where the dishwasher and cooks with the bussers bringing dishes to the back from cleaning tables helping dishwashers out from time to time when they need help while foodrunners bring food to the tables from the line. Saturday is the most busy day of the week so you have alot to do but the rest of the week is relaxed. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
The staff are wonderful helpful people. Made a lot of good friends. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Very hard to get promoted within the company or change departments and the customers are the absolute worst. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
All the staff feels like family. Everyone is helpful and friendly even on bad days. As long as your honest with your mistakes, usually it’s not a huge deal to fix for management. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
In the food and beverage department sometimes I’d leave with only $40 in tips after a full shift. The customers are very rude and selfish for some reason and there is no automatic gratuity on checks.

This company talks a big talk. I got this as a 2nd part-time job in the same complex to get extra money for college. When I went to my interview, we talked on promised good hours, promised better pay, and stable hours. Being an employee there the truth is they LIE AND WILL USE YOU

— They cut hours on every employee
— No promised good hours/pay
— Upper and lower management is EXTREMELY poor
— Very controlling failing company

 As this was my second job for hustling, I’ve picked up many other people’s hours, showed up early half hour all the time, worked hard, got good feedback from the company although they say different when they let you go............ They get rid of you before a 90 day period once all is said and done. Biggest advice for those of you looking for a job here, don’t work here.

Theres an employee in the kitchen who pretends to be in charge of the food runners despite not being in any management position. The management encourage this behavoir from him. The management is also disrespectful to the food runners insulting them, micromanaging simple tasks, and often involving themselves in other areas of work that they dont manage. This job also doesn't pay tips to the food runners only servers. On a good day a server will likely make upwards of 500$ off tables that you as a food runner had to bring the food to, bust the table, and get insulted by the customers for the servers or managers mistakes. Mistakes often steming from their micromanagement of areas that don't involve them, and that they don't know how to operate. This job is not worth anyone's time.

What is the best part of working at the company?
There is no best part about working at this company it is overall not worth the time and you don’t get paid enough for the little amount of work that you do. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
High expectations that do match the level of work as well as unprofessionalism.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The environment is decent mainly young students that work there but can be fun depending on who is working. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
The day is occasionally busy, we do our tasks needed to whatever shift that is on our schedule and get it done usually multiple issues during the time of shifts especially if it’s busy.

Work-life balance
long shifts with few breaks if any unless it's dead

Pay & benefits
great money when it's busy and almost nothing when it's dead (frequently and random). summer was bad

Job security and advancement
advancement unlikely but they kept terrible employees who frequently called out so i guess job security was fine for them

Management
not experienced in restaurant management and next to useless during a rush

Culture
toxic and full of drama, shadiness from the bottom up. rampant substance abuse and bad atmosphere

Overall
typical corporate management and inexperienced kid employees. often dramatic and not a fun place to work, no trust among shady staff.money hit or miss

Responsible for all aspects of daily and weekly theater operations.

Operation of all Point of sale servers, selling stations, Operation and maintenance of digital projectors and screen servers, Opened and 
operated a retail alcohol operation on the premises,   Over saw and managed 40 Managers and floor staff personnel. Attended Christie NOC school in 2014 to Diagnose and repair Projectors and digital screen servers. I over saw and completed a total remodel of theater
in 2017 with the addition of powered recliners. My favorite part was 
learning and fine tuning the new Bar/Alcohol operation.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Technician 67 salaries reported	$21.21 per hour
Attendant 57 salaries reported	$15.80 per hour
Line cook 31 salaries reported	$19.35 per hour
Maintenance technician 43 salaries reported	$21.70 per hour
Go-kart mechanic 28 salaries reported	$18.11 per hour

Working at APEX ENTERTAINMENT: Company Overview and Reviews

APEX ENTERTAINMENT

APEX ENTERTAINMENT Ratings

Popular jobs at APEX ENTERTAINMENT

Salary Satisfaction

Job Seeker Tools

Employer Tools

Browse

Stay Connected