Job equivalent of purgatory - Sushi Chef Genji Employee Review

3.0
2 Jan 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Health insurance is rarely offered in the food & bev industry Decent wage Steady, reliable, and mostly routine work

Cons

Soft cap on earnings, unless you are willing to travel or go into mid-level management Not much job performance feedback Very difficult to build a reliable and skilled team, usually working alone Very simple cuisine, very low level of skill required, yet somehow your teammates will still manage to disappoint. No sense of building personal skills, there is nothing really to learn for someone with some culinary experience. Dealing with Whole Foods employees and structures can get confusing.

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5.0
30 Jan 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Lots if opportunities to advance.

Cons

Days can be long sometimes but it balances out.

3.0
6 Dec 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Pay was pretty good, free lunch is nice, the whole foods staff were always friendly. Life and accident insurance were a nice bonus. Really easy if you've got a decent team. No late nights, great if you're a morning person. If you're willing to drive a lot, dedicate a lot of time, and manage there's probably some career opportunities. I have 0 desire to manage so I didn't do any of that.

Cons

Was overworked and micromanaged. Had days where I was scheduled to work alone with high production goals and unreasonable expectations. On days I wasn't alone, I was constantly badgered to be producing at all hours, even if we were done early, but also not to produce too much? Strange to have a job that doesn't want me to be efficient, but then demands it other times. Management kept bugging us to increase sales but there is literally nothing we can do about that, since we're just a kiosk in a whole foods and have 0 control over if people actually want to shop at whole foods that day. Also the health insurance is hilariously bad. A checkup and vaccines, and absolutely nothing else is covered.

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