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I was hired as a party host and was initially excited since I loved being around children. On my first day, I was told my location was hiring due to multiple previous hosts quitting, and I soon learned why. To start, management is absolutely atrocious. To specify, my manager was never accessible. There were multiple times throughout the day, everyday, when I needed my manager for help or to complete something, and they were no where to be found. This would ultimately cause me to leave my party for an extended period of time in order to find them, and hinder me from doing my job correctly. On top of that, there was, on average, about two scheduling errors done by my manager every week, and this isn't counting the other 8 or so hosts whom I had worked with. Along with poor management, the pay wasn't where I believe it should have been. Party hosts are paid $2.15 an hour, which is the standard server salary. If we were servers, I would understand, but the only serving we did was when we had to bring out the partys pizza. We were constantly with our partys (except when searching for our manager), making sure the guests got to their attractions on time, fulfilling every need that we were able to fulfill, and cleaning, all while entertaining the party and promoting a fun and positive experience. The tips were decent, but it wasn't until recently where a 12% tip was mandatory. The entire facility was a madhouse, and no one ever knew what was going on. The only real positive part of my work experience was the girls I worked with. If it weren't for them, I would have quit after my first 3 weeks. In my entire 2 and a half months I worked there, 4 of our hosts quit, along with countless servers, bowling and arcade staff. Having left this job on a bad note, it is in my best interest to not use it as a reference when applying to other jobs, which makes my time there even more useless. I enjoyed my job description, but actually executing was a literal nightmare that I will warn people about for years to come.

The employees and managers were nice and very helpful. I enjoyed my time there, made tons of new friends, Made great memories there, Learned tons of new skills, and got paid fairly well. During weekends it can get extremely crowded and fast paced. If you are easily overstimulated and it induces stress, anxiety, intrusive thoughts, etc.. I would not suggest working here. On weekdays it is fairly quiet and allows you to do a lot of cleaning and organizing, but when the weekend arrives, If you are not able to work very fast paced, multi task and get a lot of steps in, you may have a pretty rough time. If you are able to work just fine with those cons in mind, I definitely suggest this job to you as it was a pretty enjoyable job for me. I would of stayed a lot longer if I didn't begin to get overstimulated very easily by all of the noises, people and electronics within the establishment. 

If I was to rate my experience working here, I would give it a solid 8/10.

I was working there for a couple of years and one thing I know is the managers pick favorites to help and everyone else needs to figure it out. There’s to much drama even the managers are involved in that’s so unnecessary. No one really does their job the managers never helped anyone that much or keep anyone in line. No one ever gets punished for anything that they do. You can get away with literally anything which causes the whole workplace to not want to do their job and make things difficult for everyone. I was never able to have any brakes the whole time I’ve been working there. I would work long shifts and if I even got caught eating I would get told to get back to work and to stop eating. There’s been times where I’ve been harassed by other coworkers or have problems with other coworkers and the managers never do anything about it but tell me to ignore them but once one of their favorite coworkers have a issue with someone they will instantly write them up. The place is super unprofessional and just needs a total reset. I would like to remain anonymous. 

Overall this place has been a good place. I’ve met a ton of people I enjoy and generally have a good time working. However, this does come with some negativity. More often than not, your work will go unappreciated, and it feels like you aren’t getting what you deserve to get. 

The schedule is really relaxed, and I’m easily able to balance school, after school activities, and work. 

Almost every manager that hasn’t been here since I started was replaced from outside of the building, aka, almost no employees have been promoted up to a manager.  

This company is highly disorganized.
Any given week I'm provided no less than three schedules, they are frequently rewritten due to management oversights.  If you are trying to balance this as a part time job for additional income, it's not likely you'll succeed. 
There have been several instances that managers are not aware of who should be working in what department or even who is supposed to work that day.
I often receive several different methods of standards for performing/completing even the simplest of tasks. 

There are no benefits beyond activities in the center.
The desire for breaks is treated as a crime.(I've worked nine hours without a single rest period)
The time between your scheduled shifts is frequently shorter than six ours.  ie.  6pm-3am - 9am-6pm.

For the most part all of the employees/managers are friendly when they aren't encumbered by the many stresses of the job.

I would say the most enjoyable part of the job is watching all the chaos.

If you're looking to be a warm body for minimum wage that earns six free bowling games a day, this is the job for you.

Worked there for a while and never got any secure hours. At one point I have plenty of hours, if not working almost 32-40hrs then somewhere near that for about a month(?), and then they hired W A Y too many people. You can barely get scheduled for two days.  Management sucked and always watched/stared at you to find some type of problem. Like:‘Two coworkers chatting during a very slow time? Not on my watch, go dust off the games for the 5th time today, go vacuum the floor that was just vacuumed an hour ago even though no foot traffic has been through here’. They were really petty/nitpicky too. ‘You are literally incapable of filling up the prize wall because we have little to no hangable prizes? Look harder!’  ‘You don’t have a break in your schedule and you are sitting to rest your legs? Are you even working at all? You must want your hours taken?’ Its absolutely ridiculous. This job is only for teens that are out for the summer.

An extremely large amount of family members and family friends of managing partners and upper management spread thoughout the company reslulting in an oft times nearly hostile enviroment concerning nepotism and professionalism. Any attempts to improve Operations were typically met with a "Good Old Boys" mentality and refusal to accept or even be noticed until some time later , at which point it would be re-released by family members, cronies and/or sychophantic lackies with little or no effort even attempted to change or re-word any materials whatsoever. Combined with a Marketing Department that seems to excist solely by Concept Plagiarism and festers an enviroment of massive theft and impropriety. Great job for teenager or entry level career builder. Absolutely Not an Enviroment for any True Professional of the F&B, Bowling, Entertainment, or Operations Fields.

Stars and Strikes Bowling Center had a deceptively simple appeal that attracts a variety of different types of people into its fold. Though run by Non-appropriated Funds, many military personnel frequent this location on a daily basis and nearly all of the employees there have some sort of military relation. This lead to an interesting dynamic; every employee knew that their work supported the efforts of the United States Air Force, regardless of what capacity they enlisted their labor. This job offered a great deal of freedom and independence to its associates and while generally good, this did cause several problems with communication. The management rarely interfered with the activities of its employees and only supervised when absolutely necessary. Daily work included kitchen maintenance, food preparation, and customer service at the service counter.

I worked here for a year and a half, I watched EVERY single MANAGER (including the GM)  and employee come and go. A lot of the times the new managers had no clue what they were doing and came in with a standoffish front for whatever reason. The customers/regulars truly were the best part of working here. I built several amazing relationships with customers, employees and managers while i was there. The staff tries really hard to be welcoming to all new employees. New managers are 110% the hardest part of working here since they come and go, also half of the time they’re extremely rude. Almost every single manager that was hired after a certain point was extremely disrespectful, confrontational, and unprofessional. Not sure if they were just hurrying to find people or just found the wrong people. Apart from cleanliness and management it’s a decent place to work for. 

The job is very chill on weekdays (because there are far less people) and extremely stressful and hectic on weekends. From enforcing ridiculous prices and policies that people will get upset at you for, to managing a finicky lane assignment and register system, to juggling party reservations and dealing with unorganized managers, this job can be truly insufferable. My coworkers were the best part of the job by far, but I was most often scheduled to work (weekends) alone. At the snack bar, you also had to deal with the unbelievably slow kitchen. You are able to interact with people from other departments which can be nice for some. They do give you pretty good benefits when it comes to bowling and the pay was a bit above minimum, but that's about it. I will say I worked at this location when it just opened so hopefully the place is more organized now, but I would never recommend anyone to work here.

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Line cook 42 salaries reported	$13.64 per hour
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Kitchen team member 3 salaries reported	$13.83 per hour
Janitor 11 salaries reported	$12.77 per hour

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