Long hours with no breaks, rules change on a daily basis, doesn’t pay well, management picks favorites. - Server Alamo Drafthouse Employee Review

1.0
Jun 24, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Free movies. Some people are cool to work with.

Cons

- literally impossible to move up unless you work there for 5 years or are friends with the existing management. -They will make any excuse to give you the worst theaters and have you make the least money. - you’re not allowed to complain. If you complain you’re a bad “team player” even if your complaint is something as minor as being in pain from the long hours and running up and down stairs all day with no breaks. - staff steals from each other, snitches on each other to get ahead, and will knock somebody else down whenever they get the chance. Butt kissing is the only way to get through your day without any problems. - you’re not allowed to eat in your server station while working your butt off, but you’re also not able to get a break. They don’t outright say you can’t have a break, but the management will imply it when they all start calling you on your cell phone when you’re in the restroom or eating quickly in the break room. - management and other servers are extremely rude about ridiculous things. Nobody knows how to control their temper and nobody has any sympathy or empathy.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Apr 20, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

• Pay w/ tip share is crazy considering what the actual tasks of your are • Some really awesome people work there • Easy to learn and pick-up • Food (I definitely spend less on groceries, thank goodness for the shift meal)

Cons

• The pay is good, but at what cost? It'll come at the expense of your body and mental well-being. This is a job that'll wear you down, make it difficult to plan, and leave you so socially and physically exhausted that you get home only to collapse for 14 hours, unable to move from your couch. • This company cares so little about you and its customers that sometimes I wonder if they intentionally want it to go under. • Hours are inconsistent which is the nature of the industry. I do think the company can do a better job at managing consistency. It'll oscillate between entitlement to your entire life, any hour and every hour of every day, to like 3 hours a week. It's a great temp gig, but it's a shame they seem to want a lot of availability from you when you can't count on them to even schedule you.

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