Great coworkers but rude & racist management who fired me for speaking up - Hostess Agave & Rye Employee Review

1.0
25 Mar 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Coworkers & kitchen were all some of the nicest people I ever met Free meal end of shift Easy to learn system

Cons

Make you work 12 hour shifts with no break Try to steal your tips (family came in and left me a very generous tip on bill and told me about it, end of night manager tried to claim tip as hers) Bad management - racist, rude, demeaning, etc. I had overheard my manager and my managers manager talking and making racist “jokes” about a Black family that had came in for dinner. Me being Black, I told them immediately that that not an okay thing to say and that they were being racist. They ignored me for the rest of the night and my next shift I was taken in to the office and fired. Would not recommend.

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Agave & Rye Response
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Thank you for sharing your experience with us, and we are sorry to hear that your time working at Agave & Rye was less than ideal. We take reviews like this very seriously, and want to assure you that this behavior is not acceptable in our organization. Please reach out to HRsupport@epicb.com so we can take corrective action on this matter.

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