do not recommend. run for the hills. - Marketing Graphic Designer Fonte Coffee Employee Review

1.0
13 Feb 2019
Recommend
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Pros

the only pro is that it's a job if you're extremely desperate and want to learn how to do everything under horrible conditions

Cons

Messy, unorganized business model, and a CEO who treats everyone like they are wasting his money and he can do their job better than them all put together (actually heard him say those words). No real structure to this place, the whole company is at the whim of a rich boy-man who's dream was to own a coffee company and do with it what he wills, with no regard to hard working employees who actually know how to do their jobs and have good ideas about what works well in a cafe environment. The pay was way below what is deserved, probably for everyone. The projects were a complete mess, no real communication or collaboration between teams. Things just thrown at you when its already too late to do them properly, then you are pressured and berated for it and left to clean up the mess somehow. There is nowhere to even get a drink of water except from an old sink in the back storage room/garage. Everyone there was stressed and complaining, though they were all pretty nice people. The CEO was biggest reason this place is horrible he is definitely a narcissist who cares more about money than people. Was also told by an employee that he doesn't pay their vendors, and they have lots of angry letters from them. That's just so shady, and wrong.

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5.0
14 Dec 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Amazing coffee and espresso! The bakery makes everything for the bars, this is unusual as most coffee bars bring in food and baked goods from third party commissary kitchens delivering junk filled with additives. The Fonté kitchen makes everything from scratch using local ingredients (best egg scramble ever)

Cons

There is no real reason to pan or bring up cons, I think you make the environment as much as the environment makes you. Management has been through just about everything you can toss at a company and has been expanding though COVID! LOVE THIS PLACE

2.0
7 Oct 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

zero pros this is the same barista job as every where else

Cons

the owner is diluted and has obviously no experience running any sort of business

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