This is America - Executive Chef Sodexo Live Employee Review

3.0
25 Jan 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Well-established company with 24 billion dollars in revenue in 2023. Reasonable hours required of salaried employees compared to the industry average. Good benefits and international business practice standards followed in spite of the business-favored laws followed in Colorado.

Cons

MICRO MANAGEMENT and minimal training. The tedium of corporate redundancy especially about communication, inventory, and any request for authorizations. Salaries tend to fall below regional averages but must adjust for the reasonable amount of 'overtime' hours demanded of salaried employees. The same salary for an Executive Chef from Fox Restaurant Group (Cheesecake Factory, Blanco, Culinary Dropout) demands 60-70 hours a week while Sodexo usually requires less than 50 hours.

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5.0
5 Dec 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Lots of room for growth within the company.

Cons

Union contracts can be time consuming

3.0
25 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I was so excited and proud to work here for the first few years…the values are strong and there are hundreds if not thousands of impressive people here.

Cons

and then there was a CEO transition that drove a cultural change that ruined that. It took a year or so plus bad financial outcomes for her weaknesses to make it down the ladder but they did. First of all she just started hiring her old friends from past roles. The club in Denver couldn’t be more obvious. Then she started chanting mottos and motivational quotes and trying to build strategy around them that no one understood (transform and perform!). Clearly the leadership team has worked their way up for the ego and not to be inspirational leaders. We have to literally watch them perform on stage, dancing, singing, and it’s all main character syndrome. Meanwhile the rest of the employees don’t see what value they bring to the table other than maybe the ability to speak publicly. It’s become toxic, no one knows what they’re meant to do and corporate leadership is about the worst I’ve ever seen at mentoring and actually leading. It was great for so long but genuinely dove off a cliff with the current ceo.

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