Good culinary entry, bad bureaucracy - Cook 2 Canad Inns Employee Review

2.0
25 Aug 2025
Recommend
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Pros

-Good for people wanting an easily accessible entry into the Culinary/restaurant industry. -flexible hours depending on if you work full time, or if you are a student and want just part time.

Cons

-Upper management is laughably horrendous. While the supervisors and Chef are great to work under, anyone above them are heavily biased and will pull all stops to harass you for any possible mistakes. They also have no qualms firing you whether you worked there for 30 days or 30 years. -Despite advertising a tip pool, it's so abysmally skewed that kitchen staff basically get nothing, even during busy periods. -Rather low starting wage in comparison to the rest of the job market. Were it any lower you would make the same as a fast food worker despite this job requiring already having a skill set for the daily duties.

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5.0
14 Oct 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Great place to work for

Cons

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1.0
2 Dec 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Coworkers were excellent, great, hardworking people. Half off at in-store restaurants is a pretty sweet deal. Semi-flexible schedule, however there were some times management wouldn't compensate for employees who requested time off and the front desk would be understaffed.

Cons

Terrible management. Often times there were 2 of us scheduled on a booked Thursday or Friday night. Checking in 100+ rooms between 2 people takes HOURS and guests start to get very unhappy. Housekeeping absolutely sucks. Leaving at 4 PM when there are still rooms to be cleaned on a booked Friday night? The GSA's catch all the flak for that. Room runners and GSA's had to end up preparing rooms. Corporate treats the Grand Forks location like dirt. Just because something works perfectly at your Winnipeg location doesn't mean it'll work here. They're "do it by the numbers" guys without actually taking a look at the problems at hand.

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