Golden Corral Employee Reviews about "upper management"

Pros

You'll learn to cook things, which is kind of rewarding. They'll work with you if you have school or other commitments. You can eat there cheaper than everyone else. Solid vacation policy. Pretty easy to get hired.

Cons

Oh boy: Hourly rate does not reflect the level of responsibility expected of you at ALL. Upper management has some unrealistic expectations from store management/hourly employees. They're constantly pushed to see who can do the exact same job for less money. This leads to people not taking pride in the intense level of work expected of them, which leads to bad customer service, which is why this company is falling apart The restaurants are often, if not always, unsanitary. You may have heard of GC's recent PR disaster in 2013. This is not an isolated incident. Nor are the viral pictures of the filthy dishroom. This was an every day thing for most of us. Changing expiration dates on old food was very common to avoid penalization on our quarterly inspections. And finally, the work load was unreal. We were expected to keep the bar area filled to the brim with new product, meet our daily prep and production needs, and assist customers as needed. That was hard enough on its own, but then they rolled out a single serve display which we would run back and forth trying to keep full, sometimes for hours on end. All for 7.50/hr. I would not recommend this job to my worst enemy. Don't consider working for them unless you do not have any other (legal) options. I myself would consider government assistance before I returned to golden corral

Pros

Great gm pay good but worked you to death Good benefits for education Adequate insurance for managers, lousy for coworkers Enjoyed working with the staff (non management)

Cons

District manager was a jerk always money hungry Company as a whole only saw everyone as an expense DM was a tightwad when it came to giving raises. Took as many as 3 months to get a 25 cent raise. The upper management tried to undermine you when you tried to do the right thing ethically when disciplining a coworker. Made you do all their work while they tried to get the credit when it was good and when it was bad they blamed you TOO MUCH DRAMA EVEN IN MANAGEMENT was worse than 5 year olds fighting in a sand box

Pros

Staff and Co workers were great.

Cons

Upper Management and owner doesn't care about anything but the bottom line. No concern for the people who make it happen.

Pros

Fast money Part time Set schedule

Cons

Upper management needs to do a better job at hiring middle management

Pros

Compensation. Pay is fairly competitive

Cons

Horrible upper management. No respect for the individual. Worse place I have ever worked.

Pros

Free food. Got to meet and work with great people.

Cons

No quality of life, 6 day work week. Upper management doesn't care much. Extremely high turnover in management. No training put in place for managers.

Pros

Discount is pretty decent. Managers are cool.

Cons

Upper management treats employees horribly. Found a baby cockroach while working one night. They'll fire you for breathing the wrong way. No breaks, incredibly long hours. Work like a slave for horrible pay.

Pros

Free food Benefits Upper management supportive

Cons

Customers Buffet All holidays are Mandatory work days.

Pros

Great pay and steady hours.

Cons

Employees always bashing and talking about others, if you stand up for yourself; it's considered having an attitude. Upper Management is unappreciative and unconnected with their employees.

Pros

my time off is different from the other managers because of what I do and my responsibility. I enjoy my time with the company.

Cons

the upper management love to give you a target to reach and then change the target when you achieve the goal. its never ending- then what happens is the new managers come in and they don't have the skills to achieve these results, so what happens, this whole game of charades is a way of not paying bonuses. then after 7 years you have managers that are Un qualified to run your 4-5 million dollar restaurants- then you see why you have all the customer complaints and ultimately you have negative sales growth---now you have 2-3 million dollar stores.....