Regal Entertainment Reviews

Pros

Okay pay for repetitive work

Cons

Hours, working holidays, work with customer

Advice to Senior Management

More training & development of employees

Pros

Seeing Movies for free, free popcorn, free drinks

Cons

Long Late hours on weekends are where you will get your hours, tedious boring work, if not busy will be sent home within 15 minutes of arrival. but mostly just a boring job.

Advice to Senior Management

Encourage your employees more, let them know they are doing something worth while, also, also try to interact with the employees and try not to go hiding when its busy.

Pros

Movies Movies Movies!
and the coworkers around you

Cons

Often Understaffed
poor pay
not much room for raises
not much chance to move up unless your upper management
favoritism

Advice to Senior Management

Stop texting all day

Pros

its a nice environment in which your co-workers quickly become your friends. The managers are great and understanding. The atmosphere is easy going.

Cons

Your constantly standing and the prices are always rising. This increasing prices cause customers to get tense and frustrated. Sometimes its hard to keep your composure.

Advice to Senior Management

Make the prices more suitable.

Pros

The staff are great to work with.
You meet a lot of new people.
Many opportunities to advance in management.
Fun bonuses.

Cons

Low hours due to many employees.
Very busy work.
Minimum wage.
If you are easily stressed this isn't the job for you.

Advice to Senior Management

You're doing great. Just try better scheduling and pay. I enjoyed working for this company and would suggest it for anyone who loves to be social.

Pros

Regal is very flexible when you need time off if you give them a very open availability. It is a fun atmosphere to work in. You are surrounded by people of all age groups and levels of professionalism. There is something for everyone there, as long as pay doesn't matter. You can easily work at any location, so if you are not getting hours at your usual location, you can normally call another theater to see if they need help. It is a decent college job because the shifts can work around your schedule, and they prefer weekend availability.

Cons

Favoritism runs rampant, but it's not hard to become a favorite. It is easy to get fired, because they view everyone as replaceable. The hours are bad, and they require you to work most weekends, so it is hard to have a lively social life with professionals who work M-F 8-5. You will never get paid well until you are far up the ladder. You have to work at bigger theaters under the right management to advance quickly.

Advice to Senior Management

Even though it is an every changing environment, when something works, keep it. Stand up a little bit to absurd requests of payroll cuts from corporate. It hurts the quality of business that use to hold Regal above the others. Minimum staffing at the smaller locations on their busiest days makes the morale in the place horrible, which trickles down to the happiness of the customers.

Pros

Regal is a fun and exciting place to work. It is a fast paced job (most of the time). You get free movies!

Cons

In my experience, some of the higher up managers don't have any concern for the floor staff. I never spoke a single word to my district manager, though he visited almost weekly. Even the general manager stayed in his office most of the time, except on weekends or to come down to get himself a drink. Also, doesn't pay above minimum wage mostly, and even though I was there more than a year, I never had an evaluation or raise even though I was one of the top performing employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Upper management should get to know the employees as well as the assistants do. The assistants are so down to earth, and there is this gap in attitude between them and the upper management.

Pros

-Very flexible hours
-Job is not very difficult or physically demanding
-Get free movies, popcorn, and drinks for yourself and some others

Cons

-High turnover rate breeds pessimism among workers
-Open 365 days a year, so you end up working most holidays
-Minimum wage, not much change in pay, even when promoted

Advice to Senior Management

The worst thing about working at an REG theater is that there is constant fear of making a single mistake and getting fired. This breeds pessimism and gallows humor. I'd advise that management take steps to reduce this kind of atmosphere.

Pros

The staff and management, well at my location they are great people. They do a fantastic job untill you go above GM where the fat corrupt people sit with all the power.

Cons

No hope for advancement. Dont even bother.
Cheap company, too payroll focused.
"Cast member" is another word for tool.
Theatre never closes. We were open during a hurricane once and state of emergency.
Regal is doing alot of demotions to managers who have worked with them for years. Greedy much?

Advice to Senior Management

Management, be more empathetic with your staff. Reward the few quality castmembers you have left. Morale is in the crappy for everyone. The people bellow you probably feel worse.

Pros

There are some great people who work at the theaters. They all usually have some sort of passion for film so it is a nice place if only for that reason. The Cast Members are very supportive of one another and a bond really does develop.

Cons

They frequently cut people early due to corporate demanding that management cuts hours. Management is mostly incompetent and plays games with the employees. General Managers sometimes lie right to Cast Members. Work isn't the greatest, but isn't that bad. The Corporate level management has no idea what they are doing and it shows in every theater.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire managers who actually want to work instead of just sit around and get prissy with Cast Members. Also, you need to try to offer more incentives for Cast Members to be knowledgeable about films that are out in theaters.