Stressful and time consuming. - Cashier and Prep Cook Chipotle Employee Review

3.0
25 Mar 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You have great co-workers whom you will bond with easily, great experience (rolling burritos, making "quesarittos", trying new things, learning how to work in a kitchen, the ability to have a say in who gets hired (democratic hiring/firing procedure), great benefits and chance to advance with the company.

Cons

Management. The kitchen managers were not very good at what they did (forgot to list items in the stock order such as utensils and napkins), a lot of hard work that is mostly busy work, working off the clock (unbelievable right?! we would get clocked out at 12:30 am and still would not be finished closing the store because of tedious tasks, very inflexible schedule), not having a service manager or GM. Our apprentice always told us that all crew members would be spoken to before a team member was fired so we could share our views on their work ethic to minimize individual revenge to get someone fired and so everyone could make a unanimous decision. Our apprentice would fire people and lie to the entire crew about having imaginary conversations with us about said person who was fired. Basically, he was firing people with invalid reasons and not asking the crew's opinion.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Learning and growing to cultivate your own career path into a competent General Manager. The hours are longer than regular but the position is labeled as salary hourly with a minimum of 50 hours per week which guarantees 10 hours if overtime per week.

Cons

The long hours can be tiring and the expectations are less than or equivalent to that of a General Manager and depending who your boss is dependent on what you learn and how you can grow.

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