restaurant manager

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Johns Incredible Pizza Company

A typical day at work was walking on eggshells wondering who was going to be breathing down your neck for trying to take a breather. Bad management, horrible leadership and training from upper management. Laziness and bad sportsmanship. Gossiping from the General Manager and a few other Department managers. You were well liked only if you did EVERYTHING for the GM and his buddy manager. Such as bring him birthday cakes, stay past your scheduled time, bring him food, put off time from your personal life to make their easier. Some managers were nice and tried to help around school especially being a High school/college student with unexpected things come up it was nice. Also when calling out, they pretty much hound and investigate why you can't come in. "Why?" "Are you sick?" "You need to come in anyways" "Come in for a couple hours, and if you really can't work we'll send you home" "We need more advanced notice for your grandfather's funeral." And if you can't work, they go around gossiping to your friends, "Your boy couldn't come in to work today, how come?" Sooooooooooooooo, UNPROFESSIONAL, especially with the language and on top of that, letting someone use your money to gamble and coming to their hotel room (of the opposite gender when your title is above theirs) and offering drinks when you're already married with kids. This place is trouble. Hopefully, this place gets a NEW CORPORATE, MANAGEMENT TEAM, HUMAN RESOURCES TEAM, and did I already say Human Resources and Management team? When the GM is borrowing someone else's car so he can cheat on his girlfriend with another team member. PATHETIC.


You know it's bad when the General Manager himself hides he's having a baby and got married. (Because he hated hiring people with kids and a family because it would inconvenience him in scheduling when their kids' events came up) Pretty pathetic and sad. "Can you come in to work on your kids graduation?" PATHETIC. Aside from the negative which is so much more dense than the positives, you gain great friends, learn to work quickly, learn a 'bit of everything', get to meet and know a lot of different people and gain experience in the work field. Besides those things, I wouldn't recommend anyone work here until ALL the old management is gone, including the one left standing from the original and the CEO does something about this.

A typical day at work would include dealing with childish customers, childish coworkers, and childish management. John's (Roseville at least, but these reviews suggest that others seem similar) lacks a certain degree of professionalism and maturity you would expect in a work environment. The management will be the ultimate downfall of this company. They have absolutely no professionalism besides when they deal with customers. They don't know how to make schedules (closing at 12:30 and opening at 9:45 the next morning... really?), they play favorites, they are very forgetful, and they lack a sense of awareness when it comes to managing a large business. Basically, the only way you're going to enjoy your experience working here is if you kiss up to the management and shift leads. If you chose not to put up with their attitudes and don't kiss up to anyone, expect no advancement. I've genuinely experienced (and confirmed with other coworkers) differential treatment from managers depending on how close you are with them. It's easy to tell that Corporate couldn't care less about who's representing their brand when it comes to management. It's an extremely social work environment, but not in a workplace way. It's social in a high school way. Don't show up to your shift and expect to be allowed to mind your own business, because your coworkers will tell you their entire life story regardless of how completely uninterested you're trying to let them know you are. It was fun at first, to get experience in my resume, but after a few months I started dreading coming in. Who wants to show up to a job where you have to kiss up to get a raise, your coworkers all seem mildly incompetent, and the customers walk all over you like you're not even human? Not anyone who values themselves and their time. However I honestly would recommend it as a first job though, because they constantly hire people without any experience, yet it does show.

If you're looking for a first job, this isn't a bad place, however, soon after getting hired, I felt out of place. My managers were unable to work with my school schedule (I am part-time), and I would get scheduled shifts a few nights before, which was very frustrating considering I had made plans already. In an instance where I had to call in, the manager came off very unprofessional and rude because I could not find anyone to cover my shift, which I was unaware I had to do. I did not get a uniform that fit me either. I wondered how they could have half of the staff in tight, professional fitting uniforms while the other half was in baggy XL's and had to aprons to hold basics like a pen, or a sharpie maybe. Training wise, I'd give it 3/10. My "trainers" gave me little to no instruction and they would throw me on the floor taking care of parties myself with little to no training while they just watched me mess up constantly and fail to help me out. Working back of the house was tough, especially because there were nights I had to close it alone, and it would take hours to do. I did my job as told, and followed orders, but was still feeling uncomfortable doing things I was expected, but was never taught to do.  At John's I enjoyed birthday parties, the balloons, and the fun that came with the customers because that's why I wanted to work there in the first place, but overall, it really came down to how I felt as an employee. I did not feel valued, I did not feel important, I just felt like I was thrown around too much. My only real feedback is for managers or people higher up to treat all their employees equally, because it was very obvious who they liked more than others, and to get uniforms that fit everyone.

If you're looking for a first job, this isn't a bad place, however, soon after getting hired, I felt out of place. My managers were unable to work with my school schedule (I am part-time), and I would get scheduled shifts a few nights before, which was very frustrating considering I had made plans already. In an instance where I had to call in, the manager came off very unprofessional and rude because I could not find anyone to cover my shift, which I was unaware I had to do. I did not get a uniform that fit me either. I wondered how they could have half of the staff in tight, professional fitting uniforms while the other half was in baggy XL's and had to aprons to hold basics like a pen, or a sharpie maybe. Training wise, I'd give it 3/10. My "trainers" gave me little to no instruction and they would throw me on the floor taking care of parties myself with little to no training while they just watched me mess up constantly and fail to help me out. Working back of the house was tough, especially because there were nights I had to close it alone, and it would take hours to do. I did my job as told, and followed orders, but was still feeling uncomfortable doing things I was expected, but was never taught to do. At John's I enjoyed birthday parties, the balloons, and the fun that came with the customers because that's why I wanted to work there in the first place, but overall, it really came down to how I felt as an employee. I did not feel valued, I did not feel important, I just felt like I was thrown around too much. My only real feedback is for managers or people higher up to treat all their employees equally, because it was very obvious who they liked more than others, and to get uniforms that fit everyone.

I worked here in the arcade and it was definitely something. I was lucky enough to have been trained to operate the rides, but I knew some people that were there before  me that weren't even fully trained by the time I left. This made weekends miserable as we were understaffed most of the time. There were usually not enough attendants to fully cover all four rides let alone cover breaks for the ride operators. A good number of the games were pretty much always broken too, with the arcade mostly being old and outdated, and they never got fully shut down because the technicians would constantly  "fix" them. understandably, this led to guests being annoyed and and frustrated that they constantly had to come ask for refunds . Over the course of the 5 months I worked here, the 3 managers that were there when I was hired were completely replaced, and almost nothing in the company had changed. Corporate was also way too involved, with our schedules being made by a corporate manager who was rarely even in the store. Hours were fairly good during the summer, but September hit and hours fell off of a massive cliff. Even with being out of high school, the schedule was constantly blank during the week, along with many other coworkers who experienced the same. I was getting an average of around 8-10 hours a week before I finally decided to leave.  

There are a lot of young employees. There is a lot of drama. I learned a lot from working here. This was the best scared straight experience I could have asked for. If I didn’t ever work here, I would probably not be as self reliant as I am now with my working habits. I also know how to manage in a chaotic environment. Sometimes fights would break out. I gained experience calming upset parents that witnessed any fights or arguments that got out of hand. I also was given the opportunity to present in meetings with other management. Overall, leadership is disorganized but as a result, I have since learned how to be better and how to get results. This was an amazing starting line for me and I would never want to change my experiences that I had here.

Management was never around when I needed their help. I would frequently radio them when a guest requested to see one and they would often just ignore me or take their sweet time responding. Only a quarter of attendants on the floor would have radios, which means having to run around to look for a manager or a set of keys constantly. As Funworld attendant one of the required duties is being a ride operator, and I would frequently fear a guest getting hurt on one of the rides while I was on duty and having to leave the scene to go run around and flag down a manager for five minutes. In my opinion it sets a really bad impression of how this company cares for guest safety. 
Expect no hours; This place is usually only busy on weekends and therefore I would only be scheduled then. Often I would have many 3 hour shifts in a month. 
I only worked there for 5 months and I still had never truly finished my training. I still only had 1/3 ride certifications by my fifth month. Expect long training.
The best part of working here was that most of the employees were college aged and I became good friends with my coworkers. 

My current work place has provided me with great opportunities, and I was able to advance within the company. A typical day at work for me would be doing my daily task such as; changing light bulbs threw the building, swapping filters on A/C units, checking for broken tile and detail cleaning the kitchen equipment. After my task are complete I check my emails to see what management/supervisor  needs me to work on. The learning experience was great they taught me many thing, they improve my verbal skills with guest, how to use multimeter, sharpen my tool expertise, sweat pipe, soldering electrical connections and wiring games/equipment. Overall the management team is very motivating and encouraging to try and bring out the best in their employees. My co-workers are a joy to be around they are supportive of one another. We keep each other on track while maintaining professionalism in the work place. There isn't any hard parts in my position, there are challenging parts but my managers did a great job at preparing me for my position. Most enjoyable part would be accomplishing my task on time and being able to appreciate the finished work.

Depending on what department your hired into your work load is going to be dramatically different.
I worked in their party central department and I really liked it. I worked with a small team at the front of the store taking phone calls and booking parties or events. A lot of what I did was coloring and making the party side look awesome! I also learned how to cashier and did that on slow days. Checking in parties and taking payments was an important part of this job as well.

Management were very supportive and friendly. They were always on top of any problems your brought the their attention.

A lot of my co-workers were minors, which made it a little difficult to connect with them. That was one of the downsides to working here, but I think it would make a great place to work for a high schooler looking to make some extra cash.

The hardest part was cold-calling potential clients, also calling former clients trying to get them to rebook. 

The most enjoyable part was making ballon animals and seeing children smile and get excited about where they were.

In the beginning, I enjoyed working here very much. But as the time went on I hated it more and more each day. It is a fun place to visit, but it is not fun to work at. I started as a party host, which is what I got hired as, but then later was positioned as "back hall' which basically means that you are running the entire "behind the scenes" area of a party hosted there. You order all the pizzas, help get party rooms organizes, get all party hosts on a timely manner, etc. It required a lot more responsibility than a party host, which in a sense is a promotion, but it was also a demotion. Because you don't receive as many beneficial aspects as a party host. I wasn't asked to be changed to this position, and that was one thing i highly disliked.
Management was very poor, everything was based off favoritism. People who've worked their longer got the benefit of everything.
The hardest part was trying to balance my life outside of work because i was always working.
What I liked the most about this job, was working with kids, but that was only up until my position changed.

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