Restaurant Depot Reviews

Pros

If you are current assistant manager at another company and are looking to make the step to store manager this is a good place to do so.

Cons

The work load and expectations are a little unreasonable. Quality of department management type people is poor compared to retail supermarkets.

Advice to Senior Management

Upper management should try and lay off of the email for a bit and actually go work in the stores for a period of time long enough to see what actually happens.

Pros

Company has some stability and it is growing

Cons

turn over
pay
micromanaging
not answers from Western and Main Office

Pros

they offer bonuses for certain duties, it's very easy to get over time, and you get paid holidays

Cons

management suck, they expect to much and pay you way less , turn over rate is horrible , and if you don't have seniority or kiss a lil butt you are basically out the door.

Advice to Senior Management

it's cheaper to keep your good people instead of firing them and paying to train new ones every other day

Pros

The pay is the only good reason to work at restaurant depot

Cons

bad management, favoritism, very nasty attitudes etc...

Advice to Senior Management

My advice to management is to take your experience and skills elsewhere to a company that truely appreciate your loyalty and commitment !!!!

Pros

Overtime, if you like the extra money. You get an half hour for lunch, and a paid fifteen minute break.

Cons

No Set Schedule it changes weekly. May have to work overtime often. Management is not every organized. Need updated equipment.

Advice to Senior Management

The store, nor management is very organized. There is a lot of favoritism, which does not allow hard workers to be promoted.

Pros

Offices and stores are mostly clean

Cons

If you have a family be sure to say goodbye because once you're on salary here they work you to death. It's pretty much 12 hour plus days and weekends. If you're desperate enough to take a job with these guys make sure you get a nice base salary and don't let them temp you with the bonus trick. It looks like a good deal but when it comes to bonus time they pull the old dooms day routine and you'd be lucky to get 25% of what they promised you. This organization is one of the creepiest places I've ever worked. If you're not part of the inner circle you're treated like you're less than human or something. Senior management is unprofessional and and outright disrespectful to their subordinates. They've got an attitude like you're lucky you even have a job. By the way, the "inner circle" is somewhat ethnocentric . Every department is suspicious of each other and constantly looks for reasons to dump on each other.

Advice to Senior Management

Even though the union is pathetic they need to start treating their employees like it isn't. Give them a more structured pay scale and show their appreciation. They shouldn't be making money solely on the backs of the workers. Senior management (including Stanley Fleishman) need to start treating employees like they're part of a family instead of inferior beings. Like the old song says, "straighten up and fly right" (as in change the culture of the company). Research contemporary human resources practices and invest a little money into personnel.

Pros

You can Advance fast
Hours are good

Cons

They will fire you for any reason and are not fair when it comes to bonuses. They tell you one thing when your hired but all bonuses are subjective to the ceo. Hourly pay is bad. They have a union for hourly employees, but it is just a front for someone.

Advice to Senior Management

you only have about 15 employees who have worked for your organization for more than 20 years. This should tell you something about how employees are treated. I worked for a major company for 20 years and there list for employees who worked over 20 years is in the tens of thousands. You will not suceed until you take care of your employees period.