3.0
16 July 2015
Current employee, more than 5 years
Naples, FL
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Health Benefits are pretty good along with stock purchase plans and 401k.
Cons
Too much change over the years. Darden is constantly playing catch up with competitors in technology, talent and menu innovation. Our technology is archaic for such a large company who prides itself on innovation. At Longhorn managers are more of an hourly employee than a manager. Work life balance is terrible although you get 2-3 weeks of vacation being short staffed on managers has made it impossible to use them. Expectations of productively and labor matrix are so unrealistic. They are losing talented staff because of this and the lack of growth that was hyped for years has come to a crashing halt.