Pros
Are you looking to work someplace different, as a crew member or shift manager, where your contagious, upbeat attitude can make a difference? Are you self-motivated and take pride in a job well done? Are you a people person who gets along well with coworkers and customers from all walks of life? Are you a natural salesperson who can really get behind a superior, albeit relatively unknown and misunderstood product? Are you not afraid to engage a challenging, potential new customer and enthusiastically explain the difference between a fatburger and a fast food burger. Do you enjoy multi-tasking and working in a fast-paced environment? If you answered yes to these questions, then Fatburger needs you and anyone you know just like you.
Cons
Fatburger has been around since 1952 and will likely always be with us in one form or another, however it is slowly but surely becoming unrecognizable to all the die hard Fatburger fanatics that have come to know and love the brand (and help keep it alive to now). The company has been managed with little integrity and professionalism from the highest ranks for some time now. To say the least, the best interests of the business were not at the core of so many important decisions. Instead, an atmosphere of greed, manipulation and back-stabbing reigns where upper-level, corporate folk are plainly seen from below serving themselves. This has negatively affected employee morale and, on the business side, the company's expansion efforts. Taking a brand into new markets can always come with challenges. Fatburger though, has somehow managed to execute one disaster after another. Opening a Fatburger restaurant can be fun and rewarding hard work or a cookie-cutter nightmare, all depending on who is "leading" the opening. The pattern is plain to see. Now, the present state of the economy has certainly affected Fatburger just as it has others, however this has been used as a cover-up for unexcusable blunders which have really put the company on shaky ground at home and abroad. Aside from the wrong, unqualified people in the wrong positions, the company does have many true and talented individuals. Unfortunately, they were never introduced to the brand properly. So many people in upper management have come and gone to a point where we saw trainees being taught by trainees. And when the new trainee is the next Director of Operations or Director of Training and Product Development, it would help if he or she knew how you're really supposed to cook a fatburger. Listen, some people could be happy working at Fatburger. The food is still good (depending on which store you visit and who is cooking). A good unit manager will try to filter much of the B.S. from getting to his/her team and customers and strive to provide the tools and training needed to get the job done. If you have ambitions of growing with a company and being developed professionally, Fatburger is not the right choice at this time.