Messy from the top down - Cafe Manager La Colombe Coffee Roasters Employee Review

nice people and good communication

small teams and rigid guidelines

The work load is light most days, maintenance management and supervision are some the best people you can ask for in our field. A real perfect balance between hard work on the floor and the moments in the shop wrenching on projects with the team. The production employees are the most diverse and wonderful people from all walks of life and it is really easy to build meaningful relationships with the people you see everyday.

Way to many positions of authority in ranks of the chobani transition. Every where you look there is a new President of of continuous improvement or a manager some other chain on the sprocket. Chobani brought living wages and awesome reimbursement benefits programs for just about anything you can squeeze under a health and fitness umbrella. With that came corporate nonsense. Chobani eliminated just about every original LaColombe position of leadership and replced them with their people from places like New York, and Idaho, ect.. we have a full scale R&D building full of the brightest minds they could snipe i'm told, just having brunch everyday (Research). Meanwhile they rush "trainings" for production employees in a power point meeting (5 minutes tops) over machinery preshift and boom now you're an expert on whatever it was you didn't hear me talk about, sign the paper and get to your station. Also really toxic upper management. At just about every level to be honest but a VP of operations that you only see walk the floor days before the ceo shows up. Beat on his chest rattle all the cages below and make work real tense for a reason that didn't need to exist. Production employees either do not know how safely lockout equipment by the book or they are just not doing it, and it doesn't get enforced instead it is overlooked overlooked by ignorant percentage chasing leadership that probably couldn't do it any better. Anyway keep your head on a swivel and you'll be fine.