Clover Food Lab Reviews

2.9

24% would recommend to a friend

(124 total reviews)

Ayr Muir

13% approve of CEO

17% positive business outlook

Clover Food Lab has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 124 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Clover Food Lab employee rating is 21% below average for employers within the Restaurants and food service industry (3.7 stars).

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124 reviews
1.0
25 Sept 2015

Great mission, not so great company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The mission of Clover is awesome- something I was really attracted to and believed in. Most of the people I worked with were great- had good hearts and worked hard.

Cons

Compensation is incredibly low. Management is a mess. HR is so incredibly unorganized I would find fellow employees crying over not having received a paycheck in a number of weeks. I heard management making fun of employees or laughing about firing certain people. These employees are people who really cared about the company and are extremely loyal. It's really too bad because this company could be really great, but with a shaky foundation I do not expect much for its future.

1.0
21 Jun 2020

Clover does not care about you.

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Pros

- Tons of available hours, mostly because of the high turnover rate and consistent pattern of understaffed restaurants. - Due to the restaurants being perpetually short-staffed, you'll get a promotion within two months of working there. - The food is pretty tasty.

Cons

- Ayr: The owner is the most arrogant, egotistical human I've ever met. I worked there for over a year, and after multiple encounters (almost on a daily basis) he never bothered to catch any of his employees names. You wouldn't have a restaurant without us, and we see your pompous attitude. - Ayr: Once yelled at an SCL to discipline a black staff member for eating a sample of soup, even thought its something we're supposed to do often. The coworker was not violating any food codes, she was doing her job like its explicitly stated in the hundred training videos you have to watch. - Ayr: picks fights with other restaurants over petty things even though every single one of his kitchens are struggling. - Clover hirers many black folks but will not promote them to anything higher than maybe TL- looking at you, Stacia. -The values that the company started with have been abandoned years ago. They started as a food truck, and they wanted to make healthy, vegetarian food accessible to everyone. A $9.49 chickpea sandwich is not cheap, your prices no longer reflect your mission statement. Stop being performative. -Don't expect a raise, any extra benefits, or any security against workplace racism/sexism. - If you decide to take a job here, don't expect anything more than a standard fast food job. Save yourself the burden of being overworked/disrespected and get a job at Starbucks or Sweetgreen. They might be chain places, but they offer benefits and offer financial assistance for school. -Ayr: Clover serves food at the counter, they do not have servers. However, if he orders food, he expects you to serve it to him. -Clover's upper management lacks diversity and consists mainly of white men. They might be kind, and more respectful than Ayr, but they need to learn how to have a backbone and push back. -Clover also failed to raise support for any BLM/pride movements. Clover is not an ally, they have remained silent and you do not represent the folks working for you. You should be ashamed of yourself. - It's highly unlikely that you sold 100,000,000 chickpea fritters, please show us the data to support that statement. If you did sell that many, your employees wages definitely do not reflect the amount of revenue you bring in.

1.0
20 Mar 2019
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Pros

the concept/mission of the company is good, but the execution is bad in-store coworkers were mostly good to work with

Cons

-senior management and administrative staff are rude and condescending to hourly employees, they do not listen to comments on daily store operations -poor communication from store management and senior company management -Clover's mission to make fresh food accessible to everyone is executed in a way which really only makes Clover's food accessible to people with money and mobility -many inconsistencies in training, food quality, and general procedures -complaints about workplace safety are not prioritized -employees don't get free food -seems like a primary goal of higher management's actions is to avoid damaging the CEO's ego

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