EAT Employee Reviews about "long hours"
Updated May 30, 2020
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Pros
"free food, busy environment, Friendly employees" (in 23 reviews)
"Free lunch and coffee, possibility to be promoted" (in 9 reviews)
Cons
"They expect very high standards and work even on minimum wage" (in 16 reviews)
"Long hours but other than that it was alright" (in 11 reviews)
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Reviews about "long hours"
Return to all Reviews"Great environment"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsPositive OutlookI worked at EAT full-time for less than a year
Pros
good benefits, fun work, fast paced working environment
Cons
Long hours, cleaning, early starts
"Team Member"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
I worked at EAT part-time for less than a year
Pros
Friendly and helpful staff especially when your starting out new Workaround study life
Cons
Long hours but other than that it was alright
"Excellent maternity and family benefits"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsPositive OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI worked at EAT full-time
Pros
encourage family assist fertility treatment great maternity benefits
Cons
Long working hours Weekend working
Continue reading- Helpful (2)
"modern day slavery if you want to work at eat"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at EAT full-time
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.
Continue reading "Barista"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI worked at EAT full-time for less than a year
Pros
Teamwork, friendship, free coffee, staff meal
Cons
Pay, long working hours, double shifts
Continue reading"Great team awful company"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI worked at EAT full-time for more than 3 years
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
Continue reading"Can be exciting"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsPositive OutlookI have been working at EAT full-time for more than a year
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
Continue reading"It's ok ..."
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendI worked at EAT full-time
Pros
Free lunch, good people to work with , great and fun team
Cons
long working hours sometimes the budget can be unrealistic
- Helpful (1)
"Overall, not too great"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI have been working at EAT
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
Continue reading "Stay Away"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookI have been working at EAT full-time
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.
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