Caffe Demetre reviews

3.4

65% would recommend to a friend

(85 total reviews)

Kayvan Mahbod

50% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Caffe Demetre has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 85 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Caffe Demetre employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Restaurants & Food Service industry (3.7 stars).

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85 reviews
5.0
Jul 17, 2016

server

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It was a comfortable enjoyable eating and working experience with skilled qualified staff and delicious food at reasonable prices

Cons

On occasion the Banquet rehearsel dinners wedding parties and other large events that can cause over crowding loudness to other guest and a wait

4.0
Jan 7, 2022

Horrible boss

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great coworkers when I worked there, fun when boss wasn't around.

Cons

Boss was verbally abusive. She favoured some coworkers over others.

1.0
Feb 19, 2019

Poor Management and Terrible Work Environment

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Coworkers were nice people. - Hours were reasonably flexible. - Paid actual minimum wage instead of 'liquor' server minimum. - Exposure to hospitality industry. - Shifts go by fast because of how busy you are.

Cons

- You smell like waffles and crepes at the end of your shift. - 6% +++ tip-out, maybe even more. There is no transparency on where the tips are going and how they are computed. You don't even get to see your sales. If a customer chooses to not tip, you are responsible for the tip-out regardless. As the "manager" will say, it is your fault as a server for not getting a tip. - Terrible management / owner. - Owner can be very condescending and disrespectful to the employees. - Not clean environment to work in. - Even if the restaurant is quiet, you are expected to walk around and look busy - or the manager will yell at you. - The manager will go out of his way to save every penny he can. - You will get yelled at for being even a minute late, and if you're too early and just playing with your phone in the back you can be accused of slacking when you haven't even clocked in yet. I worked here for 1.5 years back in 2013/14. I saw two incidents that made me want to vomit. 1 - A counter boy dropped a crepe on the ground, and was about to throw it out. The manager micro-managed and yelled at him to 'salvage' the crepe. It was subsequently served to a customer. 2 - The dishwasher did not show-up to work, and servers were under pressure and forced to wash dishes/cutlery individually as quickly as they can. Depending on how overworked the server was, some customers were served with some disgusting cutlery.

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