A Toxic Corporation - FOH Team Member Shake Shack Employee Review

1.0
Apr 20, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Paid on time. - Lots of engagement with nice customers. - A couple of nice, down-to-earth managers

Cons

- Extremely cliquey, favouritism-based work environment. - Managers are either too inexperienced and hopped up on a tiny bit of power, or too settled and heavily disconnected from half of their responsibilities. - The staff room for "lower" members is terribly small with zero seating. The cliquey managers let their "lower-level" friends sit alone and hang out in the manager's office when the big bosses aren't around. - The cliquey managers let people of their groups chat and do less work, while making others do a significant amount of extra work, enacting every single worker policy onto us, and not unto themselves and their friends. - You will be bullied by managers and trainers. I was bullied by 3 managers. After I attempted to raise internal complaints, managers spread false accusations about me. All bad behaviour towards team members by Managers and Trainers is "dealt with" by being swept under the rug. - Internal communication between managers is extremely poor. No one knows what's going on a lot of the time. Even those at the highest level are clueless about important things, and then they all try to bite our heads off for "mistakes". - Suggestions from "lower" employees to run operations more smoothly are completely dismissed by all levels of management. - We were given a list of commandments called The Shack Pact. It exists solely for them to keep YOU in line. The managers never adhered to it.

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5.0
Jun 9, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The salary was pretty good, good benefits and everyone working there were really nice

Cons

A little dirty sometimes, and can be pretty stressful

3.0
Jun 27, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Competitive salary. Generous PTO and vacation accrual. Good benefits package. Opportunities for growth and development.

Cons

Ongoing management turnover and staffing shortages. Difficulty hiring enough managers to properly support the business. The culture the company promotes no longer feels as strong as it once did, resulting in a less positive work environment.

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