Darden Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Darden part-time for less than a year

Pros – Management is easy going. Learn mostly by trial and error. Relatively easy work as long as you keep track of everything, and pay can me good on most days.

Cons – Communication can be disorganized at times. Employees that bring personal problems to work. Having to find management for all approvals.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep it up

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Darden full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Great values and opportunity for advancement

Cons – Very large corporation focused on extreme growth

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Darden full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Great company. Compensation & Benefits are really good. upper management is really good.

Cons – 60 + hour a week. Work/ life is horrible. the restaurant industry is still in the stone age. When it comes to this. It is getting harder and harder to get and keep qualified managers at 60 + hours a week.

Advice to Senior Management – Mandatory no more than 50 hours a week. you will keep your manager a lot longer.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Darden full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – The company is stable and divers. The company has a lot of growth.

Cons – It is very hard to advance in you career. You have to know some one to advance.

Advice to Senior Management – Let people apply for job promotions that want to continue their career advancement. This will help the people in smaller remote cities and they will not get over looked. After all we moved the "little City" to help the company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Darden full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Can start as an hourly employee and move up... Great career growth/training

Cons – None that i can think of

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Darden

Pros – A supportive management team and company design that really focuses on its employees stability and happiness on and off the job. You can tell a real care goes into making the work place like a second home.

Cons – In house management can seem a bit overwhelmed at times when on track to meet company quotas which trickles down to the waitstaff causing for a more stressful work environment. I think better care needs to go into choosing team leader who understand thoroughly the art of stress management.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Darden full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – You can make make about the same money anywhere you work.

Cons – Very Poor managment. Not enouth time to do everthing your ask.Never enouth staff.

Advice to Senior Management – Get

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Darden part-time for more than a year

Pros – You dont have to fight for hours, good for career advancement if the restaurant industry is your thing.

Cons – Pay is not great, management plays favoritism and mind games, corporate rules are unrealistic.

Advice to Senior Management – Be nicer to your staff and you might not have such high turnover.

Former Employee – worked at Darden

Pros – -You can make a lot of money if you put in a lot of time.
-Good discounts on good food.

Cons – -None that aren't apparent in all server jobs.

Advice to Senior Management – Good job

Current Employee – been working at Darden full-time for more than a year

Pros – Long hours...like any other kitchen.

Cons – Very corporate, no wiggle room with recipes and such

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company