College Chefs Reviews

4.1

84% would recommend to a friend

(182 total reviews)
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Kevin Gadus

84% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

College Chefs has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 182 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The College Chefs employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Restaurants and food service industry (3.7 stars).

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182 reviews
1.0
23 Nov 2014

I wish I could rate this company lower.

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Pros

The main benefit is getting the school vacations off and rarely working late nights or weekends. Other than that there isn't much for pros.

Cons

There is a problem with the school vacations because you do not get paid over summer, so you either try to live off of unemployment, which is impossible, or try to find a job which will employ you just for the summer (equally hard in most cases). The management team is hit and miss. Some are decent people, easy to deal with and encouraging, while the majority are so overbearing and impossible to work with it's ridiculous. The CEO Kevin lies to everyone. When I was first hired I was promised bonuses and raises every semester/year and encouraged to be under budget (yeah, right) and I would reap the benefits. I know they makes tons of money off the house I work for and much more off the other houses around campus. They promise so much to the houses then trap them into contracts and create an impossible budget for chefs to meet what's required/promised which leads the house to be dissatisfied. They claim they want/make fresh from scratch food and don't allot enough money for the chef to deliver. Also, they badger the chefs about their menus if they don't feel they are acceptable, even when certain items are requested by the house. Not given a bigger budget to accommodate chapter dinners which can double, triple and sometimes quadruple the number of members you have to feed. Overall I enjoy what I do and the members appreciate me but the actual job working for this company is terrible.

1.0
2 Mar 2017

These Guys are total frauds!

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Pros

There are none. Not even one that I can think of. They are a fraudulent, dishonest, liars. Do not be fooled by their fancy company Chef Placement Services, either. It's the same group of frauds. Same Owner, same "good ole boys" running both companies.

Cons

This company preys on unassuming college students with high pressre sales pitches to con kids out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. While employed by College Chefs, they encouraged the Chefs to write good reviews on this site. Wouldn't you if your job depended on it? They gave me $1200 a week to feed 80 guys 6 days a week. Only to find out that they were charging the house over $180,000 a year for food service. After factoring out my salary and the weekly food budget, where did the other $90,000 a year go? Straight to the Owners pocket, that is where. They tie their employees hands with no budget or means to do the job correctly. In turn, the students hate the Chef because we don't have any money in the budget to provide them what they were promised by a commissioned sales team.

1.0
6 Sept 2015

Meh

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Pros

They make plenty of money

Cons

They don't use that money to better compensate their chefs, or to increase the food budget.

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