Planta Reviews

Stressful, demanding 50+ hour work weeks. Not including May sort of commute, you could easily call it. 70. Don’t forget the working from home you’ll be strong armed into doing. The slack, emails, and text threads you’ll need to catch up on are so ridiculous it’s almost comical. Assignments that are not in your training or discussed at all are suddenly your urgent problem. (Example: calling a repair company on a Sunday night at 9pm to come fix a leaking wall in fridge). As bar leader, you can expect to never be in the bar. In fact you’ll be lambasted for spending any extra energy on the bar or inventory. Upper management wants the hourly employees to do the inventory for you. So good luck getting any orders correct. Oh but don’t over spend and out up bad numbers, because even though you didn’t take the inventory, you’ll be responsible if it’s wrong and too much money was spent. This company does not care about the environment, the staff, or the food quality. Sushi Mondays? Those rolls were make 10 hours prior to the actual service. Wine Wednesdays? The cheapest wine they can find that passes as “good”. The cocktails? All batched even down to the citrus. The staff is just pumping out bland boring products. They get their teeth kicked in every service, and if they leave a crumb of water on the bar at closing they “need a discussion on improving”. They are worked liked dogs. The type of people that join planta, are not of the best quality hospitality wise. A woman once screamed at another guest for having a fur coat. Another guest berated a host at the stand for not seating them on time, because Planta forces you to over book, then “buy the table drinks” to off set their mistakes. To summarize because I could go on but feel this is sufficient, if you’re a restaurant professional and have the options to work for a real restaurant, I suggest you do that.

Leadership is toxic and exploitative. There's no respect for boundaries and work-life balance. People are forced to work overtime weekly, with no ability to leave early in the event of extenuating circumstances. You are told to use your PTO even if you've worked 40+ hours in the week- which is a labor and wage violation. Leadership has no formal training in leadership and people have been put in roles they are unqualified for simply, because of favoritism and nepotism. The company claims to be focused on DEIB, but are extremely ableist in the systems they create. The HR department does nothing to facilitate accommodations for employees with disabilities. They refuse to hire anyone who speaks English as a second language and has a "strong accent." The leadership in this company is toxic and creates an unhealthy work environment that is abusive and detrimental to employee's health.