Pros
The hourly "wages" are good people, doing all the work without seeing any of the benefits.
Cons
Where to start... First, ever single new hire is required to sign an employee handbook that was last revised in 2018. On the surface the benefits outlined sound amazing! PTO, holiday pay, sick pay, health/dental/vision insurance. The company says they offer this to all full time employees, both salary and hourly. The problem is the company doesn't actually give these benefits to their hourly employees. You have to jump through hoops and pull teeth just to get a straightforward answer. Long story short: Hourly employees hired on as full time don't get PTO or holiday pay (company stopped offering that in the beginning of 2021), and hourly employees won't be eligible to enroll for Insurance benefits until after a full years employment, where the company takes a review of your average hours worked per week from the previous year to ensure you worked atleast +30hrs/wk for entire first year. Good luck getting anyone from HR/upper management to explain that to you in a simple and timely manner though. Second, the GM of the Charleston location is a literal man-child. Constantly needs their ego stroked, and is very skilled at "delegating tasks" in such a way where they can get by doing as little actual work done as possible. To their credit, they are in the building a lot more than others, but what they are actually accomplishing while they're there is beyond me, I 5hink its just a facade. Be careful, they are gas-lighting pathological liar, and will lie to your face. I will give them credit, they are good at what they do, no doubt they have had plenty of years of experience honing their "skills". The company has a core value of "Best idea wins" but sadly that is not the case. The reality is "it's our way or the highway, but we're not going to outright say that." The "Executive Chef of Chefs" lives in Las Vegas, rarely visits the actual restaurant, and is a pseudo-celebrity chef without any of the actual skill or knowledge. The menu could be copy and pasted from any intermediate corporate chain, but somehow lacks the ability to cross-utilize ingredients and recipes, and is egregiously inefficient. The biggest slap in the face to eveyr single employee is how upper management will brag about breaking single day record sales numbers (+$30,000 sales in one day) and how the company is turning a profit for the year of 2023, but then gives excuses on why it's so difficult to pay their hourlies a decent, competitive wage. Lastly, the company just rolled out a 401(k) package within the last year. There is NO company matching, not even a penny. What's the point?...