EAT Employee Reviews about "long hours"

Pros

encourage family assist fertility treatment great maternity benefits

Cons

Long working hours Weekend working

Pros

work with great people instore. free lunch

Cons

not good pay. long hours no gratitude from senior management head office. always complaining. have to work a lot for poor pay.

Pros

Teamwork, friendship, free coffee, staff meal

Cons

Pay, long working hours, double shifts

Pros

Great team work , company provides lots of training courses

Cons

Low pay long hours impossible targets higher management rude and think bullying is good way to manage people

Pros

Lovely food Energetic Free food - if you're doing the closing shift you can take anything that won't last til next trading day home Vast majority in central London locations

Cons

Long hours Heavy lifting Wages low Ridiculously implemented mystery diner bonus scheme High staff turnover Understaffed

Pros

Good team, very sociable Nice food Somewhat flexible 50% discount when not working

Cons

Low wage in comparison to amount of work Long hours and psychically demanding work Endless rules and unrealistic standards

Pros

£6 worth of quality food for lunch, £2 breakfast if you start before 6.30, benefit website allowing you to get discounts ( to be launched mid November)

Cons

I have started working for EAT about 10 months ago as GM, and I was really excited. My 4 weeks training was not great, I had loads of gaps they showed up once I started to run my own shop. I have learned everything pretty much as soon as I went to my own branch. Now I have decided to leave company, for numerous reasons. Communication between head office and management is really poor. Head office only care about making profits, they don't care about employees. Every day job gets harder, as expectations raise. Once you have a leaver, you need to prepare yourself for 2- 3 weeks of being understaffed as nobody in company has CH to help you, and recruitment team takes long time to fill vacancies and if they finally manage, there always will be a problem so either they will tell to new starter wrong time for 1st shift or new starter does not have bank details, and they will blame you as someone who did wrong, because they expect you to check. But reasonably, people arriving in London from foreign countries will tell you everything you'd like to hear because they need a job, they need money... They have not increased managers pay this year and they were the only one company to do so, and as a reason as mentioned above - to secure profits. Loads of pressure on SSRs. They want to open new shops and expand but they don't look after shops they already have. Long hours, loads of tasks to complete, hard to keep new starters as nobody wants to work soooo hard for 6.90 while they can go to Costa, Morrisons or Starbucks who already raise pay to £8 ph in London and job is much easier and not so demanding.