line cook

line cook/prep cook

customer service associate / cashier

cashier

assistant manager

Clean Eatz

I worked at Clean Eatz in 2023 and I decided to write about it now. It should be noted that Clean Eatz is a corporate franchise, so the quality of the location may vary. 

Positive: Good store hours. The store is open from 11am o 7pm M-F and 11am to 3pm on Saturday and Sunday.Good starter job for students and those who need a part-time job. Loved my assistant manager and some of my co-workers. Most of the customers were polite and cordial. 

Negatives: At Clean Eatz, we're sometimes short staffed. I would have to frequently cover on my days off or cover for my other coworkers when they requested off and/or ghosted the job without notice, since I had no kids or second job. That's not fair to me or other employees who worked hard to pick up their slack. I talked to the managers about that, but they said they could only schedule one employee during the morning and afternoon shift, unless they're training, and unfortunately the managers were left scrambling to find coverage when an employee called off or ghosted the job. 

Other negatives were the low pay at $13/per hour. Schedules vary almost every week. Hours vary a lot too. Some weeks I lost money from working so little. Complicated way to ring up the grab n go meals. For example, we had to ring up the grab n go meals by ingredients, like if it had meat in it or extra protein. Way too complicated especially we didn't have a scanner  yet when I was there (there may be a barcode scanner now), to scan the meal's barcode to make the process go faster. 

Coworkers and regular customers make it fun to work here. The food is great, and it’s a decent summer job if you’re just looking for flexible hours or a chill environment. Their mission to encourage healthy eating at affordable prices is admirable. A typical day looks like taking care of customer's cafe orders, meal plans and retail items, as well as preparing drinks for them. 

However, if you as an employee feel uncomfortable whether because of coworkers or rude customers, you’re in for disappointment. There is no clear policy on how to deal with disruptive behavior, and you’re expected to push through with a smile. If you don’t, you risk being let go without any warnings or write ups. Since this is a family-owned business, there’s no real HR to turn to for support in serious workplace situations. You are left to handle harassment on your own.

Overall, it’s a good place to start, but not sustainable long term. You may enjoy the atmosphere at first, but in the end you’ll feel replaceable regardless of the effort you put in. Small businesses thrive because of the people working there, not just the customers.

Coming in, I really thought I would like this job. I was excited. Everyone seemed to get along, and I woke up glad to go to work. Sadly, slowly after orientation, things went downhill. I know I was doing well as a line cook; I didn’t receive any real negative feedback and I learned fast. I still went from having 5 days a week, to 3, to 2 and only coming in as a meal prep because somehow I was being “outperformed”. Despite showing up to work on time (except one mishap) and in a good mood, my opportunity was still given to people who were showing up late to work on a consecutive basis and not doing anything more than I was. The manager and the store owner both completely disregarded my ability in my face and even went as far as to talk to me like I’m some slack job, novice worker who doesn’t know anything. I know when I’m not being properly appreciated, so I had to leave this job behind.

For the amount of things I did right at this job, I was always looked at as I was doing something wrong. At this job, I was very underpaid. For the things that our manager would ask of us (And we were all teenagers in high school) we should have been getting paid more. I started working at a pay rate of$13.50. My manager would almost always be short staffed, and always quick to hire people because of it. Due to her hiring people so fast, I saw so many randoms get hired and just quit days later.  I later found out that pretty much all of my co-workers were getting paid more then me even if they started working at a later start date then me. The job isn't hard, but working with a manager who doesn't see your potential or that doesn't pay you equally definitely is. Not to mention we never got a free meal. We would only get free protein shakes and like 10% employee discount. Overall I would say this location is very disorganized and I would not recommend you work here. 

The people who work at the New Albany location are terrible especially management. You will never get your schedule on time, nor any updates that you need to be known beforehand. They definitely do not like or support POC or anyone who is apart of the LGBTQ+ community. You don’t feel appreciated nor valued for the work you put into. With irrelevant and disrespectful conversations about politics and social views during work time that does not make you feel safe nor comfortable to be who you are there. If you like a business who’s management seems like 3rd graders are running it, and will take you off the schedule with no before hand talk and immature behavior and comments this is the job for you. 

I have never worked at a job with such a distinct lack of communication between management and employees. People who are good workers get taken advantage of. They have to guideline for training and get upset when you ask questions about what they didnt teach. There's no punishment for people who "no call no show" so the extra work load falls on those who stay. I've worked there for 10+ months and anyone who tried to make a positive change was overworked and disrespected. I wouldn't recommend this location or the Short Pump one. Both are severely under staffed due to poor management and ownership.

Job culture is very clear about helping customers with meal plans and eating healthy. management at my location isn’t at efficiency as we somewhat remain short-staffed but there have been periodic pay raises at this company i am grateful for. Customers make it difficult most times; half of the gym-heads are wonderful people but the other half... not so much. I like that we receive tips monthly. I still left as it’s basically a dead-end job should you work in the kitchen (not office positions). 

My time at clean eatz wasn't the worst time I had. I worked almost weekly. One of the two shifts avaliable. I was trained "ok". Mixed people trained me so it was a bit of a jumble. Customers are usually great and very understanding. I'm not sure if I learned much aside from patients - thanks to the managers. They really don't communicate well at all. It's just kinda not the great place to go if you want a kinder work environment. The hardest part of the jobs was taking care of the managers. Not even the work rushes, the managers. But the best part were some of the other employees. 

Had many problems with management and ownership. 

I didn't feel very heard or valued as an employee. 

Issues seemed to go unchecked and remain unresolved for long periods of time. I felt the communication was not very good between management and staff. 

The hardest part of the job for me was how I was instructed to interact with customers. I feel interactions come naturally and don't need to be forced or faked. I was told often how I wasn't doing well enough regardless of customer satisfaction levels. 

I also felt the workplace moral/culture was not very healthy to be around.

A typical day was very repetitive.

i’m a college student at the moment. and i needed certain days off. and then the manager wouldn’t work with me. they work you when they need you. they allow the cooks to speak to you however they please with a code word. very biased. can’t bring up politics without you getting made fun of or someone completely bashing on you, WITH it being allowed. they don’t allow many breaks for staff unless you’re under 18. high turn over rate. people are always walking out. and all of their menu items and meal preps are all processed fake cold food. they also don’t wear masks in the kitchen. playing favorites is the manager’s favorite thing to do. 

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