Gate Gourmet Reviews

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Slow moving industry. Not enough technical innovation

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Due to lack of management and low pay, worker has low morale.

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The demanding environment of airline catering is taxing.

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Need to improve employee retention

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Management lack training to deal with people. Not all, but many supervisors only after payslip. work is reactive, not proactive. Language barriers. Manpower work assignments not well distributed. Loyalty to company is not that strong.

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Hours are based on when planes come in

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They are going through a transitioning period.

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*Gate No-Life - This is a 24 hrs a day/7 days a week/365 days a year and you are expected to work 10-14 hrs per day often 6 days per week (forget getting weekends and holidays off). Very high turnover of personnel.
*Manual systems and processes - Tribal knowledge rules.
*The system to control the customers and their requirements weakly managed creating havoc. Incorrect or missing items are the norm (not the exception).
*Weak/nonexistent internal systems and controls cause stockouts and line stoppages creating chaos for all levels.
*Personnel are expected to use their own credit cards (repaid after the fact by petty cash) to go to local stores to buy what they need to keep the line going.

For hourly/labor - be prepared to work in a refrigerator (or freezer) environment. This is airline food preparation/catering and it is the nature of the beast.

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No one will sign your timecard when your trying to leave your TEN HOUR SHIFT. The other employees will trick the new hires into thinking they have to stay overtime. Overtime is not required for part-time workers.

There is never food during my lunch period. All the food is taken by the earlier shift.

There is no training period. You show up, someone assigns you a station and they leave you there. They do come and check on you from time to time only to tell you are too slow and need to pick up the pace (even though your new and have only been with the company for a total of 3 hours).

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Lied to about 90 day probation period for new hires.
One manager cares about the employees versus the other 10+.
Play the favoritism towards alot of employees they like.
If you work hard they dont like you(me)
WAY TOO MANY characters who i work with.
People will still you personal belongings.
Alot of the managers and supervisors are very unperfessional.
Managers allow there favorite employees to dress any kind of way.
Pay is fn ridiculous at 9.36 and hr. They will work you to the point where they will break you.
The food they serve is crap and only have to microwaves that have lines for over 15 to 20 mins.
Alot of people who work there do not speak english and are super rude.
Manners are unheard of at this place.
Perfect job for a high school kid.
So horrible as far as retaining employees and turnover rate is beyond ridiculous.