service manager

assistant general manager

team member

general manager

kitchen manager

honeygrow

Typical day-Starts slow, Boring, But gets exciting
during lunch rush.


What I've learned-More so, Self taught & built standards. Cutting gloves are necessary for both hands. You'll need absolute grip for fast paced & heavy knife usage when your hands are constantly wet.

Creating a secure space for box collection, Because everyone just throws them on the floor,
The GM tends to blame the dishwasher, Whom of which did not throw trash all over the floor.
1 Person gave me advice on bottle cleaning,
They know who They are, They're a genius for that tip.


Management-Different managers talk down to you in disrespectful, Passive aggressive & positive tones, But are usually kind of chill.

The GM blew their top 1 day, Almost fired me for something that they didn't train me for. 
They left it up to someone they trusted, But that person taught me to do something that wasn't allowed an was continuously rude to me from then on.

But to be honest the GM also did some things that weren't the "honeygrow way", So that whole debacle was funny.


Hardest part of the job-
1-Unreliable coworkers.
Being of entry level You'll be asked several times throughout the day to stop what you're doing to help someone else, Which is fine, But they also refuse to help you complete your tasks.

Far too often someone asked me to cover their prep station when there was a mountain of dishes for me to wash. I said sure if you could help me a little bit later on, They agreed.
Later on, They never helped me out, An they were just loafing about in the BOH.

2-Dishwashers can't take breaks, Because if you do, It always puts you too far behind.
There's usually 1 Dishwasher on duty daily, But several cooks that you always have to stop what you are doing to go help, Which will cause fatigue at some point.
Another runner kept telling to do stuff, An they were in charge of my training.
When i asked them to teach me what to do, They told me
"Hey man, I don't have to teach you sh.."

But i was the only person back there willing to help them out at all, No one else.
So i told a manager what they said, The manager 
didn't confront them, Just looked at them.
An Then the manager showed me what to do.

Meaning, You'll be trying to complete your own tasks, But also left without help an complained at if you move too slow.

Trust me, Even their #1 runner was tired an had to be called 4 times just for ice & bus runs.
Poor soul was drained an didn't have any help back there, An they had already terminated me an a few others due to injuries.
I came back multiple times to Reapply, But they kept playing some weird gate keeper game.


3-Constantly having to empty & clean sinks, Since far too often people keep dipping things like raw meat & salads in them, Instead of using the Pre-rinse sink 1st & trash bag 2nd, To clear away any gunk, They Just dip things into any of the 3 sinks which means emptying, Cleaning & Refilling the sinks. The sinks are already wonky to begin with, Like most of the things in BOH.


4-Tiny work space. You end up constantly having to Squeeze past other employees to get the job done, They see you coming an still don't pardon out of the way.
Saying things like, Behind or Excuse me, Doesn't always work.


Most enjoyable part-Washing dishes for sure!
It's a fun challenge, I Love it & it's necessary.
It Just seems like a weirdly disrespected position.

Many students (college and high schoolers) work at my honeygrow, and I, being one of them, find it a fun, casual job I can work in the summer and during the school year, even when I get incredibly busy with schoolwork and other extracurriculars. Management generally approves my availability changes and request for time off, though I am still a minor so I cannot speak for whether adults have the same freedom. 
Management is sometimes a bit laissez-faire but doesn't tend to sit around doing nothing and is involved in service. They are generally kind, patient, and chill. 
Compensation used to be a dollar above minimum wage ($13), but now that's been raised so it's equal. However, if you're a good employee you may get a small raise, and always a $15 shift meal. It's decent for an easy job. 
My location is pretty diverse, we have multiple workers who speak almost exclusively or mainly just Spanish, so communication isn't always the easiest, but we're all cool with each other and work well together regardless. 
You will likely eventually get trained on all stations, but everyone progresses differently so I can't speak for anyone but myself. I first got trained on salad/honeybar, the mise station is very similar, so I hardly needed any training on that, then a manager showed me some ambassador duties like packaging and serving orders, and finally, I learned how to wok a stirfry. Everyone has cleaning duties of course, and if you're closing, you're responsible for cleaning your station. The work isn't very hard, though. 
I'm only not rating it very high because I don't know what I should use as a reference. In comparison to other fast-food jobs, honeygrow might be 5 stars, but as a job on its own, I think it's closer to 3 stars. 

As a place to gain skills in food prep, line cooking and general restaurant stuff, it's great! I thought of it as paid training that could then be applied to future endeavors .
As a job though...... The longer you work there the more you may feel as if you are simply wearing yourself out for no good reason.
 I do understand that it's a capitalist enterprise but I got the impression while working there that they really haven't found the balance between good food, good prices, and good pay. The pay is on the low end when compared to the level of work they expect and some of the rules seemed to just be there to create unquestioning conformity.  The environment at many times to me felt like downright drudgery with taskmasters urging me to keep going faster-usually at the top of their lungs. Also in my experience, there was practically no interaction with customers for most of the staff -I felt disconnected from people who's food I was preparing. I feel like this creates nervous, obedient workers prone to emotional distress and a rather toxic environment unless of course they plan on quitting anyway or they are managed with care instead of simply being run ragged at every opportunity. I get the profit motive but they are a young company and may yet improve . 
Really though having worked in kitchens before it's not really anything I haven't seen before but HG almost felt  like a distillation of all the dislikes I had of working in a kitchen. Great training , though and I would definitely hire anyone who'd completed the training - especially if they were smart enough to internalize some of those skills.

I loved working with fellow team members, and I was enjoying my employment at HoneyGrow. However, soon the general manager began overhiring, and picking up hours was near impossible. The assistant managers were so stressed managing an overstaffed team, and being responsible managing schedules that a few of them quit! General manager would hover and make comments that would often go against training, and soon, they just stopped scheduling their workers. I was one of them, and they didn't schedule me for a month without proper reasoning when I asked. Upon informing HoneyGrow of my two week notice, my scheduling accounts were immediately curbed. 

Apparently they hired so many people, that an estimated twenty of them (including me) were not scheduled at all. Either they don't have the will to fire me, they have the belief I can be kept off-schedule for months at a time and still come back, or they're trying to prevent me from filing for unemployment! I'd avoid, benefits are nice but all that glitters is not gold.

Things started great. Learned a lot, met a lot of good people, and loved the atmosphere that I was in. Looked forward to coming in to work every day and being able to be relied on by the GM, AGM, and SMs, and anyone who needed me. I was able to run place alone by the end of my time there. I really did dedicate my life to this place but the higher ups are blind and aren't aware of any other problems besides cleaning the store and making sure we aren't wasting too much money. They continually shoved the "Keep working hard and you'll get that promotion/raise!" card at you. Once the management changed, it was over. I started out as a manager there, stayed there for a year and some change, stayed at the same position, and watched everything fall apart. It is not the place I used to know and definitely not a place you want to work at.

I worked at honeygrow for less than 2 months and the turnover rate was insane (10 staff and 3 managers).  I found out that I was getting paid more than people who had been there for 3 years only because I told the manager what I needed to make minimum.  There is little room for advancement, no break time whatsoever (I had to negotiate 15 minute breaks for my 'double shifts', which are ten hours there), and management tend to eschew responsibility and cut corners whenever it suits their interests.  My GM was also incredibly petty; when she found out that I had gotten hired at another job (that did not conflict with my existing schedule) she took me off the schedule and told me never to come back.

Management changed several times in less than a year (4 GM’s & 3 DM’s), pay was awful compared to the work, short staffed for every lunch shift with no intentions on hiring new employees for opening shifts, no lunch breaks because the GM stated that by law he wasn’t required to give them out to anyone over the age of 18, promises made to several employees regarding pay raises and promotions that never came to fruition, employees always performing the duties of 3 positions with no help, management never on the same page, no employee meetings, no accountability taken by management or employees being held accountable at all, revolving door of employees, training not provided due to staffing issues.

Initially, this place was amazing to work for. However, when management changed, everything went to pot. The GM there is vindictive. If you're deemed a liability, i.e. disabled, you will be kicked to the curb no matter how your performance is. These people will promise you a position and never give it to you, no matter how many hours or how much effort you put in. Incompetence is rewarded and hard work is exploited. You will be fired without warning and without reason. Your private conversations will be monitored. The "open door policy" here is that if you have something to say about the leadership here, they will open the door and tell you to get out.
I wish I could give this place a great review, but I was forced to leave a job I once loved, and that I cannot forgive. 

Honey grow will promise you to move up in the company but it never happens. Some of the people they hire are lazy and unprofessional and the work load and most of the double shifts go to the over worked hard workers who are known as "green shirts". Management was friendly but they were just as over worked and stressed out as the good workers were. The hardest part of the job is when the students do bar crawls or have holidays with their parents on campus because they all want to take their parents to Honeygrow and a lot of times the staff is under staffed because people call out or make excuses for why they haven't/ can't work that day. Be prepared because if you work at honey grow as night shift you will have no life with 2-close hours when your friends work 5-9.

A typical week day during a lunch rush can be very fast paced and a little stressful if the team is under-prepared or short staffed. If all members are working together that shift will go smoothly , if not it will seem like there is a never ending stream of people and there is no time to catch up.
We have had a few changes in management and adjusting to new management is always a bit difficult.
I have learned how to guide and be a leader to everyone on my team. I have learned how to manage and instruct individuals on proper technique and etiquette  for Honeygrow.  I have learned how to uplift everyone to create an ideal work environment, your team is only as strong as your weakest link.

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General manager 76 salaries reported	$71,822 per year
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