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Grove Bay Hospitality Reviews

3.4

59% would recommend to a friend

(40 total reviews)
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Ignacio Garcia-Menocal

87% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Grove Bay Hospitality has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 40 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Grove Bay Hospitality employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Restaurants and food service industry (3.7 stars).

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40 reviews
1.0
13 Aug 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The only pro was the managers I worked alongside with were amazing men. A horse can execute the job. They dock your pay if you miss a day, then claim you took paid time off for it. Oh wait this belongs in cons.

Cons

This company consistently on a daily basis tries to be everything that they aren't but want to be; but they never take the steps to get better. Every shift was a misery with the most subpar staff and corporate office humanly imaginable. You know those shifts you have where everything goes wrong? Understaffed without product or support from corporate you're constantly getting pressure on from above and below you, imagine that shift but every day of your life. I came in applied as a server they gave me a management position that's my own fault for accepting it but I hadn't made that little money in my life since being a busboy at 17. It took me 3 days to realize what a joke of a company this is. Red flags should have raised when I realized that the restaurant group is primarily owned and managed by two accountants.

2.0
12 May 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The three executives who own the company are very smart. By the simple act of being present, you'll learn very advanced hospitality thought and philosophy.

Cons

* Grovebay overworks their managers (burns them out and runs them into the ground) and only their "preferidos" receive consistent and legitimate corporate support. * Grovebay's solution to everything is to create more spreadsheets and checklists. If it looks good on paper, the owners are hellbent in thinking that it must work in reality. When that's not the case, they just beat up their managers and rarely admit the flaws in their systems. * Their scheduling and payroll systems are super out-of-date and prone to human error. Whenever these systems reveal flaws and cracks, the stores (again) bear the brunt of the blame. * The management training and support is atrocious and mostly non-existent. Many managers receive attitude or a verbal berating when they ask for help. There are a couple of people in the corporate office who are approachable and helpful. Thank God. * Very low morale among the staff is probably the biggest challenge for this company. The owners are CPAs and a lot of the corporate office personnel is very robotic. So people dynamics is unfortunately not their forte (even though "people first" is a stated core value of theirs). * They pay managers lower than many of their competitors. *Work/life balance? Forget about that at this company!

4.0
9 Mar 2021

Great place to work

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The enviroment and knowledge you learn is great

Cons

Long Hours and not much work life balance

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