challenging culture - Manager Famous Dave's Employee Review

3.0
Mar 12, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

quality food; scratch recipies; fast paced; middle income clients; clean environment; safe environment

Cons

hard cultere to change; training is more OJT and structured; expect you to pick up procedures fast without formale procedures in place to execute; high expectation for you to put job ahead of personal time; micro managed

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5.0
May 22, 2025
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Pros

Served great food. Fun place to work

Cons

Smell gets to be too much.

3.0
Jun 2, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible hours, evenings and weekends to work around f/t day job, variety, fairly easy. Earn tips. Not as much as a server, but helpful considering the wage.

Cons

One of the managers in particular has a fragile ego/insecurities and tends to go on power trips. He takes out his mood on employees. There are also favorites, and if you are not one of them he does not treat you well. Yelling, condescension, snide comments, etc. Some employees have worked there for MANY years and still make the same wage they did when they were hired. Experience, leadership & training needs to be recognized and rewarded.

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