Shake Shack Reviews

3.4

56% would recommend to a friend

(2,120 total reviews)

Rob Lynch

60% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Shake Shack has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 2,120 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Shake Shack employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Restaurants and food service industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
1.0
Apr 20, 2026

A Toxic Corporation

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Paid on time. - Lots of engagement with nice customers. - A couple of nice, down-to-earth managers

Cons

- Extremely cliquey, favouritism-based work environment. - Managers are either too inexperienced and hopped up on a tiny bit of power, or too settled and heavily disconnected from half of their responsibilities. - The staff room for "lower" members is terribly small with zero seating. The cliquey managers let their "lower-level" friends sit alone and hang out in the manager's office when the big bosses aren't around. - The cliquey managers let people of their groups chat and do less work, while making others do a significant amount of extra work, enacting every single worker policy onto us, and not unto themselves and their friends. - You will be bullied by managers and trainers. I was bullied by 3 managers. After I attempted to raise internal complaints, managers spread false accusations about me. All bad behaviour towards team members by Managers and Trainers is "dealt with" by being swept under the rug. - Internal communication between managers is extremely poor. No one knows what's going on a lot of the time. Even those at the highest level are clueless about important things, and then they all try to bite our heads off for "mistakes". - Suggestions from "lower" employees to run operations more smoothly are completely dismissed by all levels of management. - We were given a list of commandments called The Shack Pact. It exists solely for them to keep YOU in line. The managers never adhered to it.

3.0
Jan 25, 2026

fine

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

good people, good enviroment good music

Cons

low salary, as it is fast food and get so busy

1.0
Dec 29, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Half off food that’s good

Cons

No hours to be given to staff

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