retail sales associate

store manager

truck driver

sales representative

receiving clerk

Lees Sandwiches

There are better places to work at regarding the food industry. Lee's is definitely not the worst, but it's not the best either.

For the most part, the shifts were lengthy considering it is a part time job. They just fall short of being full time without all of the benefits that would come with a full time job. Sometimes the day would be grueling due to rushes.

Scheduling can be a pain. You either know how to do everything (making sandwiches, doing the drinks, working in the kitchen, or cashier) or they'll put you towards a specific area. However, this makes it difficult to switch shifts or ask someone to cover for you. It isn't most traditional work places where you can just ask someone to cover for you because of your skill set and responsibilities within the company.

Being a worker at a food industry, it's difficult to deal with the customers at times because of their mentality of "the customer is always right." Dealing with entitled customers were the difficulty of the job, for the most part. 

To be able to work at Lee's Sandwiches, they look for Vietnamese or Spanish speakers, preferably Vietnamese people due to their knowledge of the language and the food. It makes it easier to communicate with the customers. There are no discriminatory actions behind this other than for a better customer to employee communication.

I believe that you do not get paid enough for what you do throughout this job. However, that goes with most food industries.

Since some of the locations are family based, it is difficult to move up in the chain of command because they share it with each other. If you're hoping to move up to become manager, I would suggest you either open your own branch or apply elsewhere. 

Overall, the experiences I had here at Lee's Sandwiches are similar to other food industry employees and don't differ other than the aspect of being a more Vietnamese based chain.

I thought Lee’s sandwiches would be fun however probably one of the worst jobs I ever had. 
Let me start with pay. First off, sandwich makers don’t get tips, cashiers do. What sense does that make??? They literally do all the work and cashiers stand there waiting on customers.
Coworkers are terrible too, but that’s not mainly the companies fault. Just know the managers are the reason they act snobby and rude. They will tell on you as soon as you sit down to rest during down time because they are conditioned to that. Also, they choose not to help you during busy hours, and if you’re on sandwiches you’re working ALONE. So you’ll have a customer order 20 sandwiches and you should already expect to do it alone and fast because your coworkers are either lazy or have no consideration for teamwork. 
The manager is so rude it’s disgusting. I recently went to get sandwiches and why is it that while working there my manager was on my case about making sandwiches fast AND neat but when going to buy a sandwich 6 months after working there I get my sandwiches 4 times slower than what she was telling me to do. So I guess shes not on their butts to work fast and neat. The manager was the MAIN reason why I had left. She was so rude and a complete narcissist. You can literally try your best and your hardest and she will fire you because it’s not enough. As if she could’ve done way better. However, all the manager did was make herself a cup of boba and leave. 
Only good thing was the food. Thank the Vietnamese nation for their amazing creation and introducing it to America however, some of the people need to learn how to be better workers/managers.

overall its a great place to start off at.  It can get busy during lunch and dinner rushes or summer time since that's the sandwiches and drinks are more popular during that season but it can also be slow during rain season or cold seasons.  management, all depends on the manager and how they run their store.  I went through 3 types of managers all at different levels of care for their store.  The ones that care value their store which shows through their employees but its a poor manager the workers tend to not care because their not appreciated or being heard.  The work place culture itself depends on the employees  but my overall experience and the people i have met and watched grow and move on I loved overall. Its repetitive work, you do the same thing every day but your attitude and work ethics is what get your through the day.  If you've you got a good attitude and do your job the day goes by and you get to leave happy.  If you or your employees don't get along or are not doing their job and upset a customer.  You may hear complaints.  Overall this is a customer front facing job.  Treat your customers the way you want to be treated or taken care and your day should be fine and dandy.

A typical day at work would depend what time a person enters the workplace. If you work in the morning then you need to prepare for the whole day and the next shift people. The morning requires to set up the oven at a certain degree for pastries and other meats. Once that is done you will provide the cooked bread to your sandwich makers securing that there will always be bread provided. The cash register needs to counted, recorded, and monitored at all times. I learned to remember the rush times (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) and prepare for large crowds. I had to protect my break and lunch times so I am not left with not having one. It's important to be sanitary and clean in the work area to avoid germs. The hardest part was that many employees would be late to the next shift and I would have to stay and finish the rush until the next shift came in. What I enjoyed most is the communication and effectiveness of the employees and staff.

Depending on the location, Lee's can get pretty busy, or it can be slow from opening to closing. The location I worked at was a busy location and it was quite a challenge. We had a baguette factory where we made baguettes to send out to the other locations, while managing our own operations. There were a lot of areas to focus on during a work shift, such as the Euro sandwich line, the Vietnamese sandwich side, the bakery, the fried items, the retail, the drinks bar and the factory part itself. There is a training crew that goes around to stores trying to find solutions to areas where corporate found opportunities. There's a high turnover rate here, is what I remembered. I went through 3 different managers at one store and the staff kept quitting due to stress. From what I understood, many did no agree with how they were micromanaged.

I worked from 6AM to 2PM everyday at a Lee Sandwiches Store as a cashier. I opened the door when I came to the store, set up and arranged prepared food packages on the tables. I took customers orders, helped other people to finish the orders if possible. By helping other people in different areas such as making sandwiches, making breads and kitchen, I could help to finish customers' orders quickly and replace anyone if he/she was absent. The most enjoyable parts of the job were talking with customers and handling everything by myself.

When this place first opened, the lines went out the door and almost crowded the whole plaza. After 2 months the business started slowing down due to people complaining about the quality of the bread (something out of my control). The bread was apparently harder than competitors. 

The hardest part about the job was for the non- vietnamese speakers not being able to help the customers that were only speaking Vietnamese. Eventually we were laid off because of this but they would say for that reason. It was obvious.

The manager was nice but should have not hired people for just helping out with grand opening and then getting rid of us.

Training was very lackluster. Manager is constantly leaving the store, so there's no one to go to when an issue arises, which happens pretty often if you're not properly trained in the first place. Kind of an unsanitary environment. Also a huge language barrier making it almost impossible to communicate anything with the kitchen staff. 

But the food is excellent, tips were good. Very busy place so the day flies by. No complaints with the owner, you can tell he really cares about his stores and his customers. 

All the Mexican workers here are negative and always find a reason to fight with you even though you did nothing wrong. They are not helpful or dependable. They are closed - minded people and destroy the work environment. The bosses will take your tips if you do receive tips from the customers. Overall, this is a toxic work environment and you won't grow from here. They always hire because there's always people quit. You do everything in the store while no one helps you. There's no teamwork in this place.

For the most part, the company was very unorganized and didn't meet half the the requirements for their health and safety codes. The hardest part of the job was having to tell management how to correctly manage their staff and the upkeep of their store. The most exciting part of the job was having to use my culinary management skills to train other employees and direct staff to better, safer standards then the ones proposed. 

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