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Cafe Rio Mexican Grill

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Negatives Outweigh Positives - General Manager Cafe Rio Mexican Grill Employee Review

2.0
Jun 27, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Opportunities for advancement. Trainings available, especially if higher performing. Opportunity to work with fresh, from scratch food. General Manager and higher in field management have the opportunity to attend a paid for vacation in Hawaii once a year. Benefit packages are robust

Cons

Ultimately, what lead me to leave this company was middle management, "restaurant coaches." The lack of professionalism I saw displayed at this level was egregious, and it carried down to restaurant levels because of example. Lack of transparency and directness, gossiping, favoritism. Every solution felt like just another bandaid. Promises were consistently broken. Since leaving the company, I feel like a whole new person. My attitude towards work is completely different now that I'm with a company that's positive and professional, and allows me to balance work goals with personal goals.

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5.0
Apr 4, 2026
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Pros

good management flexible work scheduale

Cons

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3.0
Mar 23, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- free, quality meal with each shift - 5-6 hr shifts, home by 11 pm (night shift) - overall not too hard - fun, mostly college-aged coworkers

Cons

- intentionally understaffed - no automated employee system to view schedule or pick up/drop shifts, not even a collective employee group-chat - poor management communication - management constantly silently firing employees, even employees they could easily fire through official process (have been forced to rehire fired coworkers because they didn't follow official firing process)

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