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Palm Restaurants Reviews

3.6

61% would recommend to a friend

(88 total reviews)

Jens Baake

50% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

Palm Restaurants has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 88 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Palm Restaurants 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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88 reviews
2.0
15 Feb 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You get to meet some pretty cool people - actors, athletes, politicians, etc. Considering the history of the company, you have some pretty top notch veterans on your staff. However, when the restaurants are desperate to staff up, they will take the bottom of the barrel.

Cons

Where do I start? You have no work-life balance whatsoever - as a manager, expect to work 70+ hour weeks. You work every single holiday and are lucky if you get one off to spend with family. 10-12 hour shifts are the norm. You are expected to do the work of multiple people with little recognition of a good job, if any at all. Expectations and goals are not set out for you, so you work blind hoping you accomplish what the company wants. No internal reviews, so again, not even sure if you are meeting or exceeding expectations. Upper company executives turn a blind eye to a lot of corruption within each store - if the store makes money, they ignore staff and any real issues going on there. Bottom line is all that matters.

3.0
9 July 2015

Should be 5 Stars

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great product and great staff at store levels.

Cons

You work at the whim of a mad-man. Being a privately held group, the owner can do what he wants. He still believes this is the 50s and he makes personnel decisions that align with that theory. Hires strictly based on appearance and terminates on appearance, not performance as well. Hence, zero job security. His executive team is powerless if they want to keep their jobs and make promises they are not able to keep.

1.0
7 July 2015

Manager

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Amazing guests. Top notch, professional staff.

Cons

Some of the worst oversight by a company I've ever seen. Saw upper management 2 times in a year. No idea what actually happens in their restaurants. Horrible judge of talent.

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