cook

lead cook

food service worker

kitchen manager

food service supervisor

Summit Food Service

My limited experience with Summit has been relatively positive overall. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with the trustees within the program and have worked with a variety of personalities. My District Manager has been very supportive and truly believes in the ideals and values of what Summit stands for. I have felt a considerable lack of support and care from my director though. While they are a great individual to work with, I have noticed a total disregard for basic dignity and respect for the trustees and general inmate population. While I have spoken to them and the DM about this, it seems that nothing is truly being handled besides discussing the issues them a continuation of the problems. There also isn’t much opportunity for more hours or to move up within the company. I was also hired under the pretense of a full time position only to be given part time hours. In the time I have been with them, I haven’t worked more than 30 hours. 
Summit is a great company to work for but more needs to be done about those in charge not stepping up or properly handling major concerns.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The pay is pretty good and you can get extra hours

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
There is very little operational support and a lot of red tape. It takes a long time to get budgets approved. 
Their health inssurance does not include Mental Health. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It depends a lot on the client, you work on location. While you do have weekly team calls, they have very little effect on company culture. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Make sure you have everyrhing the inmate works need to prepare the meals. Make sure they prepare the meals according to the recipes. Order and receive. Maintain open communication with the client. Make sure kitchen complies with health tegulations. Weekly inventory

I loved my job.
The inmates were great to work with.
The biggest problem we all had was our manager.
Not very friendly bad communications with employees and inmate.
She was dishinest.i have worked alot of places and gave never had a boss who would tell one employee one thing and just the opposite to another.
Never trained the inmates probably or take any extra time with the employees.
She told me she was my boss not my friend.
When i was trained i was told not to trust the inmates .
They would twist things and minupulate me.
But it was my boss that i caught in lies alk the time.
Anyway i loved my job and thought i would be there for along time.i would tell anyone to apply. But summit seriously needs to check their management out. And maybe they wouldnt have such a big turn around.

I really liked the worked I did with Summit, it was fun helping out all the inmates learn to cook and how to manage a job in a kitchen. But much of the job is going to be draining and exhausting, not only because of the inmates but because of the management as well. I was going 6 months without a day off and when I ask for some help I was told that everybody was short and I received nothing. When I put my two weeks in, they didn't ask me to stay or even send somebody down to learn the site and when I left they needed to send in 3 people to cover what I was working. I don't say this as a way to boost my own standing but to show that until it directly affected them, they didn't care or even see what harm was being done. Now I don't know if it's gotten any better but I would say that I love the job I did but couldn't stand the management 

I love working with the inmates they are humans too,  but the women aren’t in the kitchen where the rudest people I’ve ever met.  If you say hello to someone they ignored you. These are the people you’re working with a five or six people you work with and they don’t even want to talk to you. Think about that a work place where you’re not allowed to talk to the people you work with. Too many egos. For some reason they thought they were better than the people they were supposed to be helping. Bad situation all the way around. Good luck, be careful of your bosses.

I support the use of Tech Friend’s bank software to support inmate kiosks, tablets, and financial transactions for users within correctional facilities focused on commissary.
 	On and offsite training of the financial software and hardware on a day-to-day basis to law enforcement and team collaboration through installation project meetings
 	Provide updates and the associated training for new software features
 	Provide repairs as needed either remotely or through physical visitation
 	Use project management skills regarding third party integration with phone, video visitation, and debit processing card companies with the associated hardware-software.

What is the best part of working at the company?
I really enjoyed my job however this company does absolutely nothing to help u if you are struggling with staff, this company sits back and watch it happen. What a shame no wonder why they have such a high turnover.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
At this Jail it was one of the Sergents she didn't like me. Talked behind my back she's ridiculous 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
I ran this kitchen serving 77 inmates by myself for 47 days with no help from this company.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Same stuff everyday, felt like I was always being watched every move I made so the staff could report me to the manager.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The pay is very good especially for the cleveland area

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The correctional officers in charge of the kitchen intentionally sabotage the work flow of the day. They play stupid little games and then blame summit staff when everything goes haywire

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Stressful. Good workers are worked to the point of exhaustion and bad workers are not held accountable 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Constant working with only a 30 minute break out of an 8.5 hour shift. Dealing with bad attitudes and being demanded by the correctional officers

If you want to be belittled, called a liar when you go to management about constant harassment, yelled/cursed at everyday, be told you are incompetent, threaten to be replaced, get a write up when other coworkers get away with the same things, or have the manager tell us we are the cause if all her health problems or just work in a hostile environment everyday then by all means this is the place for you. If you weren't one of her favorites then you were treated horrible. she even threatened to terminate and bring to court whomever went to HR about her behavior. her saying was what ever happened in the office stayed in the office. 

Poor management interaction. It is as though you do not exist unless you are threatening to quit, thenthe management team knows who you are. Very difficult to get the correct ppe unless you get hurt and then they ask well why didn't you sayyou needed something. You could try to advance, but unfortunately after I have tried 3 different times as well as took extra college classes to help me achieve that goal it was told to me that I would get the position, but when it came open again I want even told about it until they position had been filed already.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Cook 5 salaries reported	$10.15 per hour
Lead cook 1 salary reported	$19.00 per hour
Food service worker 4 salaries reported	$20.86 per hour
Kitchen manager 2 salaries reported	$25.75 per hour
Food service supervisor 2 salaries reported	$24.35 per hour

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