Taster reviews

3.5

40% would recommend to a friend

(15 total reviews)

Anton Soulier

47% approve of CEO

39% positive business outlook

Taster has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 15 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Taster 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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15 reviews
1.0
Dec 21, 2021

Wouldn’t recommend

Recommend
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Pros

At first will seem like the dream workplace and the colleagues are friendly.

Cons

It’s the classic start-up job where you are overwhelmed and overworked with chances to get the 2% pay increase at the end of the year that’s not even covering the inflation. The support will be minimal as your managers will be as exhausted as you are. I would not recommend this experience to anyone mainly for mental health reasons, unless you want to make any job after this seem like the easiest on the planet. Expect to be expected to work overtime and have slack on your phone and answer questions and emails in the evening and weekends. Your manager will promise things will get better, which might make you stay for a while longer but the longer your stay in such a toxic place the longer will take you to recover. The unrealistic expectations, long hours, unachievable KPIs, lack of support, toxic culture, gaslighting and non-existing empathy. Everyone that worked at Taster for more than a year will tell you the same.

4.0
Apr 16, 2022

A Good Place To Learn

Recommend
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Pros

- Good environment to learn, challenging. Fast paced hard work expected from all levels - Huge learning and knowledge about the delivery sector to be had at Taster - A large number of areas challenging the business, opportunity to move around and deal with different areas - Team culture taken seriously

Cons

- Kitchen staff salaries too low to attract good staff, therefore relying on operations to an absurd degree - Kitchen managers unable to do simple, normal hospitality tasks without hand holding - Pervasive culture of 'do the minimum' in kitchens with Ops left to clean up the mess - Rigid company policies that make it impossible to effect meaningful change - Upper management have limited knowledge of food and operations, which makes it very tough to work here, unless you want to forget what you know and just do things the 'Taster way', which does not work - You may be held accountable, and even blamed for results that are the consequence of other people's decisions, that you are simply carrying out, after your own advice and opinions have not been headed

3.0
Feb 1, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

The company is pretty flexible in terms of fitting their working schedule around your availability, but if your on a full time contract expect no room for change

Cons

you only work during rush hour periods with no breaks in between. 3-4 hours straight through rush hour, with most kitchens being under staffed and managed. Management hardly helps especially when they know the kitchen is under staffed

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