The Cheesecake Factory Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

Fast pace hectic work environment

Cons

Very hecticr and no work life balance

Pros

High paced, different, great culture

Cons

The work life balance could be better and restaurant hours are rough

Pros

Great Culture, people, and energy

Cons

hours and work life balance can be a challenge

Pros

Money, benefits, food, staff, and great guests

Cons

No the best work and life balance

Pros

The people you work with can be really great and fun, or everyone will get snappy and mean to each other. Good food, pretty decent discount for food. Some of my managers I preferred over others. Bakery wasn't too great, but if you make your way to cashier, you will leave on time more often or not as late. Plus bakery doesn't get tips, but cashiers do and you make similar base pay, so if you can bear the burden of bakery for a while, run with cashier as fast as you can so you aren't stuck in one of the worst positions in the store.

Cons

First off I wish I could rate work life balance as less than a one star. This job is WAY more stressful then it needs to be. There are consistently long hours. You could be scheduled until 11 or 12 and stay until 4 in the morning cleaning up after a long and messy shift. You will not be paid overtime unless you hit over 40 hours a week or 12 hours in one shift. No holiday pay except 2 days a year (thanskgiving, Christmas Eve). Servers will constantly pester you (since guests unfairly pester them. Respect-i love some of you servers, you deserve better) to have their orders done sooner, in the middle of a three to five hour long ticket rush. Three to five hours in which you will not leave the bakery. I seriosusly hear the ticket machine in my nightmares. You will never have breaks (they say you can do a fifteen minute paid break, but the amount of work disuades it, and managers will push you to get back to work). You can work 12 hour shifts with no break. And people consistently try to drop their shifts in the bakery or call out, forcing you to always cover for them because everyone hates the stress and amount of work for such terribly low pay. They will train you for a new position only for the papers to magically dissapears and you won't get a raise (happened to 6 of my former coworkers, a couple which quit immediately after). You are always expected to do twice the amount of work expected, just because they don't want to pay another person to be there, or they can't find someone willing to be there. We started off in training with 4 to 6 people on a night, after 5 months of working there, it was down to 2 or occasionally 1. Management constantly telling you a different way to do things, no cohesive managing. Also the food promotions with door dash or 1$ cakes are sometimes awful as extra stress on the team, since you only get more tickets and nothing positive in return.

Pros

Work and Life Balance; Positive Environment

Cons

Fast-paced environment that is not for everybody

Pros

Good for balance between life and work

Cons

Poor pay is one of the downsides

Pros

Great place to work and balance of work life is wonderful

Cons

More scheduled hours would be appreciated