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Blackjack Pizza

Working here was fine at first, the pay is a little better than minimum and the job is fairly easy, most people there were easy to get along with until the owner hired his new GM. The guy has been with Blackjack for a long time and as soon as he was promoted, he started making tons of changes. No problem for me, because I enjoyed the extra organization at first and everyone being on the same page about the smaller things. Slowly, he started getting used to the idea of riding nearly everyone about nearly everything to the point that it was starting completely unnecessary arguments between kitchen staff as well as other management. The new GM and one manager in particular started getting into arguments (that I had nothing to do with) nearly every day. This guy single handedly changed this work environment from relaxed to hostile. One night, he was arguing with the other manager again when he made the statement (to her) that he was "going to send both of us home if she keeps making him angry" not having been involved with with their argument, I laughed audibly at his statement because I had been working hard and quietly pulling my weight all night. This prompted him to start screaming at me. Yes, screaming. He screamed at me to "GET OUT" over and over at a volume that I was not able to speak over. When I turned around to oblige him and leave, he harassed me by following me out of the store at my heels (while screaming for me to get out) and into the parking lot. When I turned around to acknowledge him because he clearly wasn't going to stop following me, he got about 2 inches from my face and continued yelling at me (on public property). After this occurred, I called the owner and told him what happened. After speaking with his poor choice of a GM, he decided to believe and side with his clearly unstable manger instead of listening to an employee who had just be viciously harassed by his own GM.
I DO NOT suggest working here right now due to the current situation with management and the owner's current inability to realize that he has made a terrible management choice for his store and his inability to listen to his employees opinions as well.

Typical day at work was to review all restaurant operations and make sure support was given to the correct areas when needed and at critical times.  I learned how to make something my own, how to run it as fit and successful aside from what I thought had to be done, I did what had to be done to make money for all employees and owners.  Management was great, I loved the owners they taught me a lot about business, but about life as well.  My co-workers were the same, a lot of them young like me and family and friends were always hired first.  I got to enjoy my youth working and learning with the people I was closest to.  The hardest part of this job was seeing the owners go their separate ways on issues and not agreeing on anything.  I tried to please all of them because I respected them so much, but in the end they couldn't respect each other.  They re-located and lost 75% of their business.  When I suggested positive changes to help they told me it wasn't my place to make suggestions.  So I sought out better opportunity, college, and medical benefits.

On a day to day basis, I come in and look at how much dough, sauce, and other ingredients need to be made and then I prep them accordingly all while achieving other tasks like answering phones and making pizzas as necessary.
My bosses are down to earth and expect us to work hard while having a good time.  Store is well managed.
Co-workers are mostly college aged adults who all enjoy similar interest and know how to work together within both social and professional realms.
Hardest part about the job would maintaining all the work needing to be done at certain times when business is at a high volume.
Most enjoyable part about the job is interacting with co-workers and customers and being able to control the pace of work with your own work ethic.

The owner would regularly come in and literally scream at all employees in the store for not doing a good enough job in her eyes and management was extremely poor at making sure both drivers and insiders were getting off on time or even close to off on time. More often than not I would be working from 11am-9pm (sometimes even 10 pm) with shifts that were scheduled from 11am-7pm. There were 15-year-olds working 8 hours regularly during the school year. There was never mention of raises or benefits or even time off and it was regularly a fight trying to get time off that was requested 2 or more weeks in advance and the only other way to get days off was to ask for someone to cover for you. Probably the worst workplace I've been in in a long time. (Firestone location)

Honestly, working here as my first job has given me and idea of what I want to be around with my next. A typical day is I walk in being greated kindly and with a lot of people being actually curious on how my day was. I learned how to work as a team and not alone like I did at first, my managers were fantastic, always got me out of work on time or before unless I was aboslutely needed. Hardest part of the job was getting everything done quickly and having it look nicely and neat, I got it down after awhile. I enjoyed everybody I work with, i enjoy the help they give me if I need it or even when I don't,

Depending on how busy things were, you were either making $6.85/hr to do dishes and fold boxes or you were pulling in 60-100 bucks a night in tips.  No difference in pay for in store/out of store, so when it was slow it really felt like a waste of time to show up.  Daytime shifts often meant doing a lot of inside prep work for less than minimum wage.  Okay if you work only the dinner rushes at night, but more than that and the value of the job decreases substantially.

Always short-staffed. Corporate office never willing to help in any way. Careless of work environment, safety, health, employees, the customers' priorities. Every time they are faced with a complaint or even a slight responsibility, they will do whatever it takes to pass it on to someone else, even if it isn't part of their job description. They are constantly making promises they can't keep, like more pay, healthier environment, or more employees. constantly having regular employees do corporate work for them, or what they call it "runs".

I was a General Manager. They would NOT allow me to hire and assistant manager. Prior to this job role, I worked as a driver and then an assistant manager. Once I worked as the General Manager of a Franchise in Old Colorado City, CO, the franchisee would NOT allow me to hire an assistant manager. I worked for close to minimum wage. I did EVERYTHING that a Regional Manager would & more. I worked for 8 months from open to close. I finally burned out and quit. They did NOT care. DO NOT WORK FOR THIS COMPANY! THEY DI  NOT CARE ABOUT YOU!!!

Before being bought out by Askar Brands it was a great place to work. Now we are just considered labor cost. A dime a dozen and easily replaceable. One supervisor has only one year of pizza experience and is constantly making mistakes that anyone with a little food service experience would not make. He owned health clubs prior to this. After one year I have seen 8 managers come through and the turnover for drivers and insiders is a revolving door.

A typical day in black jack pizza would require answering phones, making pizza and other menu items, and cleaning. I learned how to talk to new customers and be sure every customer was satisfied. Management was not the greatest. Co-workers were okay. The hardest part of the job was working so hard for being paid below minimum wage. The most enjoyable part of the job was the satisfaction of making customers happy.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Delivery driver 13 salaries reported	$24.90 per hour
Pizza cook 9 salaries reported	$18.22 per hour
Shift leader 3 salaries reported	$21.00 per hour
Assistant manager 2 salaries reported	$21.50 per hour
Shift manager 2 salaries reported	$17.50 per hour

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