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The Salad Project Reviews

2.9

57% would recommend to a friend

(21 total reviews)

73% positive business outlook

The Salad Project has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 21 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there.

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21 reviews
1.0
6 Dec 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Free food to a certain extent, but that liberty was taken away when they started micromanaging our own food. Decent location, terrible pay.

Cons

Everything. The reviews you see are from MANAGEMENT, so don’t believe it please and take my advice instead as a FoH member. They’re covering it up, no one is surprised. The pay is £11.55 at central London locations, which is extremely poor considering all surrounding businesses provide better - this is how they are able to exploit their workers who are desperate for jobs. Also, 0 hour contracts… good luck. I witnessed multiple walkouts from unsatisfied workers who found out what their pay was. Disproportionate to the work we do for the area as well. The management at the Oxford Circus branch was unprofessional, certain authorities were extremely unprofessional and unpalatable due to their rude and brash attitude towards employees, and an unprecedented amount of flirting - get a room. Certain male workers were misogynistic towards me, calling me incompetent because I was a female, and set the atmosphere of the job to be completely offputting. It wasn’t even funny, it made me respect management less. Management became intrusive, implementing new incentives to increase profit margins by not allowing workers to have a certain amount of food. They installed CCTV near products to ensure we would not steal, and introduced bag checks. The abuse you receive from snobby middle class office workers WILL get to you, they treat you like below worthy citizens and will disrespect you and make you cry. You WILL be verbally abused by snobs. HR will patronize you and assume that you don’t know what a 0 hour contact is. Also, will “accidentally” assume that you resign and send you a resignation email, when you never resigned - this particular HR rep never apologised to me for this because she knew she made a mistake and instead a different HR rep apologised on her behalf, pathetic.

1.0
2 Aug 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

some nice staff, hours aren't too bad for full timers

Cons

Worst work experience of my life. And I've worked at spoons. No matter whether you're a small or large company, you should know how to speak to people, how to care for your staff. People have opinions, people have mental health issues, people have the right to speak up about issues. It's how you deal with all the things that get thrown at you that shows who you are as managers and the owners of a company. When your staff turnover is as high as it is, surely that's when you know there is a problem. The two reasons people leave jobs.....the management and a better salary. I moved to a lower paid, lower management job, because of this company. 90% of the team I had have all now been fired or quit. It says it all. Plus putting my job out before I had even left or known I was leaving. That's how these people treat their staff.

1.0
7 Dec 2025

Frustrating

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Taste salads, easy and convenient access in general

Cons

No time for improvement or even having a proper break, lunch, , the aim of the company is only to raise money for the next new place, focusing in cutting staff hours, overloading staff with work

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