Groot Hospitality Reviews

Owner Dave Grutman is verbally abusive to staff. Him and his friends and crew are vile creatures and will get their whole bill comped and not leave a tip. Upper management sleeps with the bottle girls and hosts. They don’t give credit where it’s due, there is one amazing manager that cares about their employees health and well being and will stick up for staff. Other than that, everyone in that company is on a power trip. Everyone is afraid of Dave Grutman. No one knows when he’s in a good or bad mood. If someone drops a fork across the room he will cause a scene. A manager was forced to resign after having multiple affairs with a multitude of women in the company and causing distress in the workplace and then was asked to come back because they don’t care about women or their employees. Toxic masculinity at its finest. Please steer clear of this company they do not care about you no matter how many times they say you are family. They won’t even take the time to rmemeber your name.

Extremely long hours, compensation is not even close to being up to par with the amount of responsibilities they expect you to fulfill. Toxic culture of yelling at people when mistakes are made instead of coaching them to improve as a company. Corporate trainer Ciara is absolutely incompetent and extremely HOSTILE, doesn’t know how to talk to people, and demonstrates favoritism toward certain employees DO NOT WORK WITH HER. All their restaurants are failing because unless you’re a VIP Celebrity or have money, the service they provide is just OK, and they even make you wait 2+ sometimes for a table despite if you have a reservation. Do not work at this company unless it is your last choice, or unless you wanna work SIX DAYS A WEEK. There are thousands of better companies that will actually value you as a person first and then as an employee, and that actually care about the quality of the food they’re serving. Groot is extremely overrated and doomed.