line cook

retail sales associate

food preparation worker

butcher

bartender

Tin Building by Jean-Georges

Firstly, the building itself is gorgeous, and all the food and products are delicious. It is clear management and corporate care deeply about customer experience. But from an employee standpoint, I could not think of a more frustrating place to work. Schedules are never consistent or delivered in a timely manner. Hours work and pay are often incorrect. Training for new employees is non-existent, minus an 'orientation' where you are given info on the building you can find on Google. There is a high quality of service expected, similar to those of other JG restaurants, but pay and training does not reflect this expectation, and you will be reprimanded if you don't meet expectations. Pay promised in the interview was not what was given in the contract, and this is a common occurrence among employees. If the building is slow, they will not hesitate to fire low level employees to make up for this, while keeping the ridiculous number of 'managers' on salary, naturally creating a fear-based workplace where you anticipate termination. Most of your fellow employees will feel like strangers, even after months of working there, as the divide between each one of the restaurants, and each retail section is real. HR is worse than apathetic, even vindictive, with no interest in helping employees, only protecting the men at the top. Health care benefits are good, but because hours are so often cut to makeup for slow months, you often do not end up even qualifying. There are 3 dollar family meals everyday, but calling them a 'meal' is being very kind, and you will almost never see management eating this with the hourly employees, which should say enough. A slap in the face in a building of such exorbitant wealth on display.
Coming to work here, I walked in with good intentions, even hoping to grow with the company, with the many potential paths through retail, hospitality, and restaurants. But the day I left, I felt a weight like no other lifted off my shoulders. Felt the need to type this to say to all those out there looking for a job, keep looking. Don't make the same mistake I did. Believe these many reviews.

The building is very beautiful and nice but feels empty, well cause it is from Mondays - Friday no business at all,  no customers come in at all and if do they, they'll see the crazy prices the marketplace has to offer. if you happen to be a “lucky” employee who is stuck  closing you’ll be standing around most of the day and upper management expected you to make magic happened and bring in customers. some teams are understaffed while others are overstaffed. you’ll have 2-3 just standing (overstaffed team) around while you can be doing orders(restaurant) and ecom. and they’ll be mad if you do something like go get water or something. some management like bragging about their position but when it’s time to put in that work that they get paid for they complain and gossip. you’ll see someone employees be brown noses with management like a teacher pet. THATS ONLT RETAIL. you gotta do dishes in a sink that you share with four departments(all stewards were clipped) so it makes it hard to clean dishes that have meat, fish, and ready cooked food. if you’re in central market most likely you probably have to interact with restaurants(chefs to fulfill their prep order).  The chefs are even worse they have power trips and act like they all mighty. If you let them run over you they will. they have no clue what’s so ever when it comes to prepping stuff like meat/fish. You can get hired for a role and you have experience but when you explain a situation they’ll act like your experience isn’t worth much, so if it the idea doesn’t come from their head it isn’t a good idea basically. i see this building being on foreclosure probably in the next 2 years. if you need a job badly or just such like the prep team you’ll be good here can stand all day without a care in the world and be safe, collect a easy check. The meat case can look amazing with steaks but take a look and steaks look different colors due to not having proper equipment.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The best part about working there are my CO workers for the most part they where all nice to me treated me with the upmost respect and the owner of the whole business was wonderful want stuck up or acting like he was better than anyone. The people he had running the place for him as far as my managers they where very rude disrespectful, didn't know first hand how to speak to people and if you didn't kiss butt then you want going to move up.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The mangers I won't say all but my managers where very rude and disrespectful and they talked about each other and employees right with some of us and it was disgusting to see such a beautiful place and a brilliant man to work for and the people you put in place to be your leaders suck.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment was good because you are surrounded by people from all walks of life and diversity and just fun and exciting.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Hard word because our restaurant did the most service in the building but we didn't have the right number of employees so sometimes it can get hectic but I loved it because I was doing something I loved and joy I got to see on peoples face from what I prepared was priceless.

Seems like they found the worst human beings ever and made them managers. These managers have no sensitivity training and do not know how to speak to you. They speak to you in a very passive aggressive way. I worked at the house of the red pearl. The hours here leave no room for work/life balance. They cannot keep staff to save their lives therefore they overwork the only staff they do have . Working a 10 hour shift here back to back is the norm as are clopenings (closing then opening shifts) There are only 2 employee bathrooms for over 500+ staff. Expect to wait on line 10 mins to use the bathroom and the bathrooms are worst than public bathrooms. 
Corporate isn’t pleasant and they care more about their vip guests than they do their own employees . You can only use an employee discount (50%) on your days off. And the “free” food that they provide in the break room is equivalent to jail slop. Overall horrible company, horribly insensitive. Also might I mention the tin building has THE ugliest uniforms ever. Better places to work for trust me !

This place has something called warm body syndrome so if you have a heart beat just apply and you will get hired. I won’t mention the things others reviewers did because they’re all true and there’s no need to repeat the truth. Let’s talk about how unhappy everyone is who works in this building. From line cooks to counter people to even people at the top of their so called hierarchy. You’ll hear general managers say they’re sick of the people in the kitchen and the kitchen will complain about FOH staff because of a small mistake. Sorry we’re all human beings and we’re working with what feels like the first computer ever made. The terminal will freeze and glitch so badly it stops you from performing at the level you should. The money for servers at t brasserie isnt good and bathroom breaks are non existent. I would say this is a good place to learn at but the style of service is just so awful and inconsistent I think it would be very hard to bring what you learned somewhere else. Oh and if you’re a server you’ll never know what you made from the tip pool ! 

Working for the Tin building has been a tumultuous experience for me. From the beginning it’s been nothing but constant miscommunication, disorganization and toxicity. For a brief period of time I truly enjoyed working here but the incessant micromanagement, gaslighting, and antagonism has soured my experience. For one there’s way too many managers and who don’t know how to hold civil discussions with staff without yelling to get their point across it’s sickening. I constantly feel like I’m on edge everyday there’s no peace of mind. As for the positives being exposed to new foods and pastries has been a plus for me as well as getting to meet new people whom you may form familial bonds with. The atmosphere is exquisite (if you’re not an employee) as well as interior design. Overall my experience here has been a literal NIGHTMARE so if you want to preserve your emotional and mental health STAY AWAY FROM THIS PLACE!!!! 

It's a terrible place to work; nobody is happy, and everyone looks miserable. 
They promote from within out of desperation because managers keep leaving and they can't find external candidates, having exhausted the market. However, they don't provide proper training to the promoted managers. When new managers make mistakes, they blame them for being incompetent.
Every employee is just a number to them; all they care about is how to save budget and turn it into their bonuses. 
Employees are burning out every day, but no one cares, and no solutions are made. All we hear is "It'll get better; we are working on it", but nothing has changed in the past two years. In fact, it has gotten worse.
All the reviews you are seeing are true. If all the reviews indicate the same thing, it's not just angry reviewers; they are stating facts.

The concept l, the location, the environment and the idea of The Tin Building was brilliant, however the upper leadership struggled significantly. The leadership in culinary were so rude, unhelpful and demeaning to staff and lower management. 
Being a JG restaurant, there were many directors and managers from other JG locations trying to put their stamp on the place, however each and every director/manager had differing views and idea meaning no clear objective or transparency of what was required or expected. One manager would say one thing, another would want something different, so the objectives were ALWAYS changing multiple times a day. Good intentions at heart but poor direction. Reiterating the rudeness, meanness and demeaning manner up the highest culinary chefs. 

All the reviews are TRUE. Most of the upper management are miserable at the job themselves so they choose to bring us down with them. Literally every manager talks about how they wish to get fired. 
No real support from upper management. Promotion only given internally out of desperation of losing valuable employees. They also add more responsibilities to your job with no official documentation or compensation. Laid off an abundant amount of workers in February and all the managers got a bonus the next week.Then also tell employees that they do not have money to give them a raise as low a $0.50. Managers are allowed to talk to and about employees in a disrespectful manner, HR is no help. I would not recommend to anyone.




I want to make this short and simple, was there for over a year nearly 2 meaning I stayed a year to long. Any new business you want to give them a chance to work out all the kinks and hopefully they get better, not this place from beginning to now they have done nothing for the betterment of the company or for its employees. Everyone is expandable except the top brass who make bad decisions and think the course of correction is off the backs of its lowly paid hourly workers. There is no culture there so don’t except as an employee to be cared for or even heard they want you to do as your told don’t share opinions or ideas it literally means nothing. The one positive and only positive is the ppl who share your struggle that become friends and family..  

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Line cook 4 salaries reported	$21.63 per hour
Retail sales associate 2 salaries reported	$21.50 per hour
Food preparation worker 2 salaries reported	$19.50 per hour
Butcher 1 salary reported	$21.00 per hour
Bartender 2 salaries reported	$16.00 per hour

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