Overworked - Waitress Cafe Rouge Employee Review

3.0
Aug 18, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good tips, and young staff

Cons

boss was difficult to work with, long hours

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Cafe Rouge Response
3mo
Thank you for sharing your feedback and for being part of Café Rouge. We’re pleased to hear you’ve enjoyed aspects of the role such as the team environment and tips, as creating a positive and rewarding place to work is important to us. At the same time, we’re sorry to read that your experience with management support and working hours has been challenging. We recognise how important effective leadership and a healthy work–life balance are, and we continue to focus on supporting our managers and reviewing rotas to ensure our teams feel valued and supported. Your feedback is appreciated and will be shared with the relevant teams as part of our ongoing efforts to improve the colleague experience. Thank you again for taking the time to share your thoughts, and we hope your time with us continues to develop positively. Kind regards, The People Team

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5.0
Jul 5, 2023
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Pros

Professional , friendly, teamwork I feel that I have the skills which allows me to do this job

Cons

I feel that I don’t have any cons in this job

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Cafe Rouge Response
2y
Hi Jo, Thankyou for the lovely feedback you have provided about working in Cafe Rouge. We are really pleased you enjoyed working as a line chef. We are grateful for your contributions.
2.0
Sep 7, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great customers who rewarded comedic and thoughtful moments. Knowing you're expendable and low status is all part of the fun; A worthwhile insight into human psychology, working under the social pressure of threat of embarrassment communicating with hangry guests and fed up cynical managers, sticking up for more socially vulnerable team members against bullying customers and managers. If you can maintain good mental health in a job like this you can do it anywhere. Transferable skills that helped me finally defeat depression.

Cons

Underfunded sites under weak management in key areas sent to the underworld. No redundancy or holiday pay after pandemic forced termination. Inability to spot and cherish talented team members. Greedy economy starved key sites of staff or care resulting in a bad reputation and miserable staff weekend after weekend.

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Cafe Rouge Response
5y
Hello, thank you for taking the time to leave us a Glassdoor review. We are sorry to hear your experience with the brand has been a negative one and this is certainly not how we would like our former employees to feel about their time working for us. If you would like the opportunity to discuss your points further and speak to someone in relation to the issues you have raised please contact 07464673324.
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