Interesting place to work - Anonymous employee Chipotle Employee Review

3.0
Feb 3, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Chipotle is a good place to work if you want to gain restaurant experience and if you want to go into restaurant management, Chipotle has a "hire from within policy". Also, You'll never go hungry working at Chipotle. Your meals after you work a shift are free and your meals any other time are 50 percent off. They're also pretty flexible with the scheduling.

Cons

Some of the Managers are really awful people to work with. And sometimes they have too many managers on duty at the same time which makes things very confusing because each manager has "their way" of doing things and you end up having 3 different managers giving 3 different sets of instructions for the same thing. The training needs major help. Chipotle's idea of training is making you watch a 5 minuted video of a "re-enactment of how service is suppose to run. However, their re-enactment does not include anything that really happens during the course of the day, so it's very unrealistic. Then they put you in a real situation and expect you to handle it. Also, if a Manager has a disagreement with you, they will cut your hours.

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Pros

Learning and growing to cultivate your own career path into a competent General Manager. The hours are longer than regular but the position is labeled as salary hourly with a minimum of 50 hours per week which guarantees 10 hours if overtime per week.

Cons

The long hours can be tiring and the expectations are less than or equivalent to that of a General Manager and depending who your boss is dependent on what you learn and how you can grow.

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