Okay job for new bartenders who need experience - Bartender Red Robin Employee Review

3.0
21 May 2024
Recommend
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Pros

You can move up from server to bartender fairly easily. If you are well-liked by the customers you serve, tips can be pretty good. Base pay for bartenders is $4.50/hour, unfortunately, but tips can increase wage to around $15-$23/hour. You can work the days and shifts you prefer if you can convince managers to agree. You may be able to form some friendships.

Cons

There is a lot of drama in the restaurant industry, in general, and there is no effort to combat that here. Some workers may be very immature, lazy, or hard to work with. Tips are not guaranteed. Tips vary depending on how well you are liked by the customers you serve, which customers you get (luck), how busy the restaurant is (which varies daily and monthly), and how many customers you personally get (your individual sales). Must share tips with hosts and bussers, which totals 3% of your total sales, no matter their performance. Sundays are the lowest tipping days. Jan-Feb are the slowest months. High stress environment. Consistently understaffed. No guarantee of time off for vacations. No paid time off. No benefits. Highly political environment with favoritism. You could make more per hour by working at other restaurants or bars in higher-income areas, such as West Plano or North Dallas.

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5.0
2 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Met the best people, life long friends!

Cons

The company growth health is not the best, seem to be closing a lot of locations.

2.0
4 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

fun interactions with people and coworkers sometimes, serving is a job that has helped maintain bills

Cons

managers who rely on shift leads instead of themselves being treated poorly by customers and not getting any support constantly out of something our sams barely work overload us with tables then expect perfect surveys from customers

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