Pros

It's a fun environment and you meet a lot of cool young people when you work at Jamba Juice. Depending on who the supervisor is, you also get to have fun fridays, where you wear fun hats while working.

Cons

It can be very tiring, especially if you work in a hot place. I worked in Los Angeles and San Diego, where the weather can be very hot. When it gets hot, more customers come in and making smoothies and carrying the heavy sorbet and ice cream can be heavy.

Advice to Senior Management

There is usually a general manager of the specific franchise of Jamba Juice. You start as a team member and can get promoted to Shift Manager. Every hour, there is at least one shift manager and only shift mangers can close and open. It's a great leadership opportunity.

Pros

Fun atmosphere and awesome people. Great place to work depending on your manager. I loved the drinks but they can be unhealthy!

Cons

Typical slave job. Minimum wage pay, could not transfer the same pay to different locations. Just a job for me. not a career.

Advice to Senior Management

MAKE each location fun and enjoyable to have consistent employees. Avoid high turnover by not being flexible and understanding.

Pros

reviews every six months with .10-.40 raise. great opportunities for advancement. great team to work with. and great environment still love this place

Cons

to me there is no downside to working at Jamna Juice, they are very flexible and listen to your needs.

Advice to Senior Management

you are doing a great job, best job ive ever had, and hopefully going back soon. keep it up people

Pros

The other team members are extremely nice, it's a relaxed place to work at.

Cons

there were basically not a lot of bad things about working at Jamba Juice, but sometimes the pay was a bit low, or there wasnt any tips

Advice to Senior Management

Good job with interacting with the customers ... i thought that the management at jamba juice were actually pretty nice

Pros

free product, for sure. friendly atmosphere... customers are usually in and out so little interaction and little problems. reasonable hours.

Cons

it sucks when some stupid kid tells you the smoothie is made wrong when it clearly wasn't... constant dishes... constant cleanup and restocking... hard floors and on your feet all day

Advice to Senior Management

take care of your employees more with positive feedback and more frequent raises... provide oppertunities for growth... and stop hiring 16 year olds who only want summer jobs!

Pros

very few pros, one free smoothie a day, if you can call that a pro, somewhat cheery co-workers sometimes depending on the day.

Cons

terrible management, no chance of moving, terrible benefits and just a bad overall experience, this coming from a very optimistic person

Advice to Senior Management

move up fairly, dont ignore your employees needs, and pick much better management, have better communication with everyone on staff

Pros

it is a good first job and you will learn alot if you put in your hard work at jamba juice

Cons

the raise system and how hard it is to be a shift lead at jamba juice it gets so stressing

Advice to Senior Management

i would suggest to treat others better and have to 3 closers at all times regardless of payroll it helps alot

Pros

Usually easy to get time off
Fun people - customers are nice when they expect that you are nice
Flexibility with shifts

Cons

Hard to communicate with management
Ideas hardly listened too
Little room for advancement with franchise
No benefits with franchise

We were a corporate store, turned franchise, and everything went downhill from there...

Advice to Senior Management

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Pros

Environment is always upbeat, coworkers/management are all friendly for the most part. Good place to work if your a college student looking to earn some side money.

Cons

Pay is unsatisfactory. During the spring/summer, what they pay you is definitely not worth the amount of work you'll have to do. They don't really reward you for working hard and being loyal (i.e. don't expect a nice raise), and there were some new employees given a higher starting salary than some of us who have been working there for more than a year, which was kind of ridiculous.

Advice to Senior Management

Offer raises to loyal employees, and maybe pay more for team members during the warm seasons (spring/summer).

Pros

good for a first job to gain experience

Cons

company is doing really bad right now so they dont give many hours
they would call me in for a 4 hour shift, but then send me home after 1 hour because they didnt have enough hours to go around.
they dont care about your flexibility. they just give u whatever and if u cant make it then thats your problem.

Advice to Senior Management

stop hiring so many people when you dont have enough hours to give