US Foods Reviews

I have been working at US Foods full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great benefits, great people, with opportunities to make a good living. Up to date technology, visible and active on social media. Leader in the foodservice industry

Cons – Be prepared to work long hours and possibly on the weekend. Events and rollouts are announced with short notice. Bottom line focus at any cost.

Advice to Senior Management – Take the pressure off inside equities and empower the sales team to be more competitive. Relieve the burden on the sales staff so that they can have more fun on and off the job.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at US Foods full-time for more than a year

Pros – Maybe the salary and benefits

Cons – Kept you on as a casual employee way to long.

Advice to Senior Management – Focus on the good employees

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at US Foods full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great pay and benefits, lots autonomy

Cons – Top leadership is filled with arrogance.

Advice to Senior Management – Better communication

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at US Foods as an intern

Pros – Good pay and free coffee and juice for employees. Sometime they would offer ice cream and other food for workers.

Cons – The company make so much money, and it couldn't afford a chair. Had to sit in regular chair to do office work. My back started hurting siting on that chair. Luckily I was there only for three months. The management and supervisors would chew tobacco at work. Its looks so unprofessional when you sitting in there office and they spitting in a cup front of you. They would hire another person and get them trained with you. And then fire you, that was I heard from the people over there. So be carefull when you training someone over there, they might be your replacement.

Advice to Senior Management – Buy some good chair for your employees. Also unload the trucks more faster. Just read some complaints this company online, takes up 5 hrs to unload 5 pallets.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at US Foods full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good Products, poor service and reputations

Cons – Poor Management, in competent, who you know, not what you know

Advice to Senior Management – Get out to branches and see what your people are doing.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at US Foods as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – Great people and work environment.

Cons – Require better employee benefits and more direction.

Advice to Senior Management – N/A

I have been working at US Foods full-time for less than a year

Pros – A lot of growth, care about employees

Cons – Headaches from attempts to centralize

I worked at US Foods full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Forward moving organization
Competitive
Sales driven-a lot of activity around this area. Numerous incentives and training offered
Generous salary

Cons – Organization is moving slightly too fast
No support for upper management from upper management, support given to lower end associates
Overworked, on call 24/7-numerous weekends/holidays devoted to working.
Metrics/Goals unrealistic
Benefits very expensive
Lack of training for managers (excluding sales) & lower end associates
Fuctional alignment not working well

Advice to Senior Management – Don't allow yourself to get burnt out. Leave the company before this happens. Make sure you keep your family first. Do not neglect your family for this company because in the end the loyalty that you show will not be reciprocated.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at US Foods part-time for less than a year

Pros – Weekly Pay, hourly rate ( starting pay ), union. If you lucky enough to get fulltime I heard the benefits are good.

Cons – Physical work, long hours and mandatory overtime. A partimer is typically scheduled a ten and a half hour shift but expect to work past that or you will get fired if you don't stay. After ten hours it is time and a half. After twelve hours it is double time. In my opinion money isn't everything. Why kill yourselve? Burn yourselve out? This company has a very high turn over rate. When you first walk in the door nothing but negative energy. Even the trainer drills in your head that people don't come back after two days, a week, two weeks e.t.c. Only a few people are friendly to new hires. I guess they figure why get to know you if you might not last long. This should be your red flag here. Why work for a company that sets you up for failure, and expects you to fail? You can't sign up for direct deposit until after probation which is ninety days. Never heard something this ridicules in my life, another red flag. If you like physical work, this job might work for you. If you know how to drive a triple forklift, build pallets, this job might be for you. If you know how to use voxware this job might be for you. Starting pay 18.50 hr. Top out pay 25.00 hr. HR is useless. Management is useless. You get a break four hours after you start which is thirty minutes. You get another break four hours later which is also thirty minutes. Company is biased towards minorities, and women. They recruit a lot of Supervalue ex employees. No set schedule you can't leave till all work is done. Stay away from this place look for something better unless you prefer money over health, and family. Also a partimer is required to work four days ten hours plus a day. Don't ask for less or tell them you have another job. They will fire you. They need people, but don't want to work with you.

Advice to Senior Management – Care!!!! If you did you wouldn't have such a high turn over rate. Train better...

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at US Foods full-time for less than a year

Pros – excellent tools like "Business Analytics" that uses all the statistical data collected from sales for each customer over the previous 3 years. This tool allows you to drill down or categorize what ever sales data you are looking for to track your sales and provide statistical data to customers. Room for growth if you are willing to relocate. Excelent effort by corporate to make US Foods the stand outchoice in the industry.

Cons – District Sales managers.... Some are fit for the job but others have their own interest in mind. Modern managers should operate in a leadership role. They should never shoot down an employees sales or other professional goals. This pretty much prohibits career development in a small market like Tucson. District managers dont have the proper management training and operate on an old fashioned management theory. Different people have different sales approaches and dont always align with middle managements ideal approach,however, it doesnt mean either approach is wrong... just different. Management was friendly however, the leadership qualities that would benefit the company tremendously, were insufficient at best. A change of direction has been initiated by coorporate and is very strong however the lack of true focus is the downfall of the strategy in play.

At a General Sales Meetings there were 30 objectives of daily focus for the TMs to follow. A focus can be directed to maybe 4-5 objectives to show a real improvement.

Leadership is lacking from upper management down through the sales force. Guilt trips and bad mouthing are common practice.

a $45,000-55,000 salary are quickly diminished with the burden of fuel and other vehicle maintenance as well as cell phone and insurance cost being placed on the shoulders of the territory manager. expect to pay around $10k-15k out of pocket per year to perform at an acceptable standard in this company. There is absolutely no room for growth in the Tucson area.

Advice to Senior Management – Believe it or not, happy employees are a companies best asset. When you promise a cutting edge, industry leading, 13 week training program that will set your sales force apart from any other company you should probably follow through. Lack of formal training is the same as planning to fail. Yes, a $250,000 cryovac machine is a cool tool and makes the product nicer and stock yards employees easier, but if you break it down an employee with boost your production and make you more money than any machine you have... Without the employees you buy nothing, stock nothing, sell nothing, load no trucks, and MAKE NO MONEY.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company