scheduler

production scheduler

maintenance technician

sanitation worker

harvester

Bob Evans Farms

What is the best part of working at the company?
Pay is at or slightly above average for the title. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The company expects you to be available 24/7 364 days a year. Many shifts are over 12 hours. Many times 6-7 days a week for weeks at a time because the company can’t keep people. Family time is nonexistent. Holidays and weekends must be dedicated to work. Use personal vehicle without reimbursement to run for product on a frequent basis because they require inventory levels to be bare minimum. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Work environment is high pressure and constant multitasking and doing the work of 3 people but being paid as one. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Opening the restaraunt as the kitchen prep, manager, and dishwasher as you are not allowed to run hours for those positions until sales begin. Preparing the restaraunt to ensure food safety, counting registers, checking for expired product all which must occur within a 1 hour time frame of arriving into the building. Helping cook orders and seating and cashing out customers and continuing to operate the dish machine while also performing table touches and ordering or inventory depending on the day prior to being allowed to have a hostess u til approximately 10am. It’s now been 4 hours and you’ve done the work of 7 people. If you’re lucky you get to have a second manager around 1 or 2 after getting demolished on both breakfast and lunch rush. Oh and two servers called off. So now you’re waiting and bussing tables too. And table 41 is screaming about not having meatloaf on the menu anymore.

A typical day for me is unique to other managerial duties.  I am a closing manager and my shift begins at 123:30 pm.  My first order of business greet my team and to assure the day side has set the night side up for success and all areas, cleaned and sanitized.
I then. proceed to the fills other people are responsible for, check product temperatures, quality and time stickers, I then read emails and manager book to catch up on the days events.  I've learned preparedness and organization is the key to running consistently good shifts.  My current Management team are extremely involved with the restaurant with their finger always on the pulse,  They are proactive and sincerely care about our business,  I am much older then them and they inspire me to bring out my best.  My cc-workers are dedicated to their work and care about their daily sales and business. Some need direction daily however we have tenured employees that know their jobs very well and perform at the utmost levels. The hardest part of the job is trying to keep fairness amongst employee, sometimes feeling they get the short end of the stick.  Getting the team on board with change rapidly is sometimes a real
 problem

My satisfaction at the end of the day that a great job was done and I look for a better day tomorrow.

My typical work day is a short one.Very routine.Has it's slow peaks and low ones as any other place.I learned that your job should stay your place of employment and not your place social meetings.The management is all over the place.You learn what each manager likes and doesn't like.Depends on how they're feeling.I tend to keep to myself so I can do my job and stay attentive to my customers.Some don't always follow that rule and are more into what's going on for the night or what happened the night before.Although most of very friendly some are a little more sketchy.You learn to keep your distance.The hardest part of the job was constant schedule change and labor percentages.Managers were so caught up with their labor that some days you would get a break and go home early or you would be there all day without warning or notification.The most enjoyable part of the job was the customer interaction.You build a bond with some of these customers that they almost become like family.

If you like spending time with your family then this is not the job for you. I don't see them 3 days out of the week. Which is not worth the stress.

The expectations are unrealistic to run a restaurant. They give you a certain number of hours to hit as a goal. This number seems like it is figured out by throwing a dart at a board. Run understaffed and get your butt kicked and you're still over on hours somehow even though you run a great labor percentage.

Other times not only do you have to pick up the slack of your staff but also of other managers who don't want to do their job then you still get blamed for it. 

The company just does not have as bright of an Outlook as it once did because they aren't listening to what the customers want but you as the manager are the one who catches he'll because you are the one the customer sees.

Burn out sets in pretty quickly with all the factors I mentioned above and it shows in a high turnover rate amongst managers.

I work 6 days a week so a typical day for me starts out with me arriving, preparing myself as in getting my notepad, pens out and apron on, then clocking in. I am a waitress and I do love what I do. The interaction with the different types of people that I meet is the most enjoyable part of my day. I love the regulars and know most of them by name and food order. Sometimes it is hard dealing with my co-workers since most of them are still teenagers and I am 34. It is very frustrating when you get stuck doing most of the work because they have yet to learn that a job is more than coming to work and doing what's in your job description its about going above and beyond the call of duty. Its preparing yourself for them busy times when you wont have a second to breath, its about team work, and also its about the customers and doing whatever it takes to make them happy. 

Working on the weekends is a hassle. Hosts/Hostesses are often overwhelmed by customers wanting to be sat quickly and servers complaining about being sat too often. Often you have only enough time to do one thing, such as cash out, and you get behind on other jobs like restocking the bakery or checking the bathrooms. Managers can get angry with you even though you can't do things like seat the line of customers at the door while cashing out the line of customers at the register. Most often there will be other hosts/hostesses at the door so that isn't too much of a problem, but it can be frustrating when you are really busy and you've been working for hours. Managers tend to forget about hosts/hostesses when cutting employees for the day, even if you are supposed to leave before some servers. Despite these issues, employees and managers get along well with each other most of the time, and the pay is overall good for the job.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The management is willing to work with you when you have issues in your personal life. Pay is good for the area.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
At least in my area, it could be said that there is a thick skin requirement. The employees tend to be quite boisterous, it reminds me of being in the military. The workday is not set in stone, so you don't know when you are getting out of work on any particular day.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It is loud and quite physical.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
If you work on the harvest line, your hands and forearms are going to be in pain and numb at the same time. The production area isn't as physically difficult, but those positions do pay less.

Always paced my day by setting up my list of things that needed accomplished the day before, prep lists made and review with department. Orders that needed to be done knocked out early so I could be out from during peak periods. Doing walk-throughs periodically to ensure productiviy is being met and if areas need assistance.the staff was great, willing to do whatever I need them to do, They were better than some of my team leaders, The hardest part was coming in to things from prior shifts not be done and left to be finished, walking into a messy store.I am very organized and I have high expectatons. The most enjoyable was the guest interaction amd the employees, having a smooth running sfift and all is in high spirits.

Management favors drivers with a good old boy mantality, very few minority work here, minimal to meet quota possibly. Allows drivers to wreck with a slap on the hand, such as lose of trailers, driving down median.Management sits in office talks on phone ignores reality for drivers and let's others manage drivers but throws safety meeting to drink. Dispatch has no knowledge of how to dispatch sometimes leaving you sit at places 10+ hrs. Yes you may get payed for those hours but who wants to sit there in a truck all that time. They have faulty equipment anddo not take proper protocol to fix.  You are promised 20000 miles a week average 1300. They try to find excuses to fire you if you don't fit in, legal way so there are no law suits. They don't care about there employes.

A typical day consisted of work in many areas, and helping other employees in their job. I learned how to be the best in customer service and always wear a bright smile no matter the situation. My management team unfortunately was never stable, and not on the same page work-wise. Most of my co-workers caused confrentation due to senority, but my co-host was the best team member I had in the entire three years of employment. The hardest part of my job was working so very hard without recognition. The most enjoyable part of my job was working with my co-host and meeting with regular guests every week.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Scheduler 1 salary reported	$20.15 per hour
Production scheduler 4 salaries reported	$19.56 per hour
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Sanitation worker 2 salaries reported	$23.91 per hour
Harvester 1 salary reported	$22.39 per hour

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