Pros
No serving of alcohol which means dealing with fewer drunks. The health benefits are adequate considering the health care system got butchered by the last administration.
Cons
The hours are LONG. I worked 60+ hour weeks regularly. MANY weeks of 6-7 days in a row before having a day off to rest and then if you have a family and a home there is no rest. Several times I was scheduled to close (getting done at 2 am), then had to drive nearly two hours to meetings only a few hours later, then after a 4-6 hour meeting I was required to go back to the store to work a closing shift after the meeting. Do the math: begin work at 2 pm, work till 2 am, get home, wired from working twelve hours, in the bed by 4:30-5:00 am; up again to go to another meeting two+ hours away; in a six hour meeting; driving two hours to get to the store after the meeting; then closing the store (again working until usually 2 am; then driving home. That's 36 hours in 1.5 days with maybe 3 hours of rest. This was a frequent occurrence and this is not what I was told at the interview for this company. I was lied to by the regional who said 60 hour work weeks would be rare and only at the holidays like Thanksgiving/Christmas. Multiple times I was the only acting manager on duty working without a shift leader. Multiple times I had back of the house people walk out mid-shift due to the astronomical workload and the crummy pay. Cracker Barrel pays much less than similar concepts. So guess who gets stuck washing dishes until 2 am after doing the mountain of closing duties already assigned to managers? Time after time I was left alone to manage busy night shifts with no help--often down to 2-3 servers on busy Friday and Saturday nights. This job buries you in major stress and upper management is dishonest. Like I said, no quality of life. My family saw me no more than 12-13 hours per week for long stretches at a time. This isn't a career, it's a slave trade.