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Earls Kitchen + Bar

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Earls Kitchen + Bar reviews

3.4

54% would recommend to a friend

(1,899 total reviews)

Mark Hladik

59% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Earls Kitchen + Bar has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 1,899 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Earls Kitchen + Bar 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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2K reviews
1.0
Dec 10, 2014

Terrible.

Recommend
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Pros

The food is good so we rarely got many food related complaints. As a server, the tips can be good.

Cons

Servers would treat all other servers, hosts, and bussers like they were lowly slaves. They were VERY stuck up and were taught to be that way by a company only concerned about a workers appearance not their integrity, honesty, or work ethic. Management bullied you at every opportunity for clocking in one minute late, not being 15 minutes early for a shift or on some days just looking " not done up enough" or "too fat" A very hostile environment overall. As a host i daily got scolded for trying to encourage teamwork and going above and beyond my job duties to help out servers. We didn't get ANY tips either which is odd for a company who prices so much for their food! Be careful women. They will make you wear tight clothes just to sell food. They are extremely sexist and will not allow you to even wear pants. They didn't mind making me wear 4 inch heels to work even when my feel were bloody and raw after the end of a shift.Lots of double standards.. management can text and look at cat videos and sleep with all sorts of servers and hostesses ( even the underage ones) I actually got fired because I complained the other hostesses would text all shift while I got all the work. I would reccomend you work in this industry just not at earls or moxies or any other related restaurant if you want to be treated with respect :) Avoid the wem location and save yourself the dissapointment, if you must apply anywhere else.

1.0
Dec 10, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

No skill needed! Pre-screened resumes are disregarded by management for questions of "What do they look like?"

Cons

2yrs watching rampant sexual harassment, drug use, and internal theft of product and money. Absolutely a poisonous place to work.

2.0
Aug 11, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Easy to build strong relationships with coworkers, many locations, wide variety of techniques used to put out a menu with lots of diversity.

Cons

Improper training, hours are all over the place, you either get short shifts or split shifts that are never actually split or closing shifts. Management has favorites and makes it painfully obvious, you can work 4 times harder than their favorites and nothing gets noticed unless you stop with the extra work you chose to do to improve the quality of what you put out or to improve the conditions of the kitchen. You can ask for information regarding training and won't even get an answer. Training only happens if you're a closer or a favorite.

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