Ritz-Carlton Server Reviews

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Super horrible back office, Poor training, mean colleagues, no mealtime,

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Whatever you do, do not take the server position in the Barrell Room. Extremely long hours, with a measly 30 minute break. You do the same work and split tips with the rest of your team but you're expected to do much more work and get paid less hourly. They don't value hard work, and that's mainly because they are never up there to see it. MIA management. There's a running joke that management is a team of master manipulators. absolutely no work-life balance. If they want/need for you to stay in your position, you will. If they need to move you to suit their needs in another outlet, they will. Leadership has been proven to be liars and unfair across the board. Ironically, my leader stole tip money, which was unaddressed for the rest of my employment with Ritz. I was told to take my issue to my leader, by the HR director because she "was about to get on a call". (I had been warned that HR does nothing to help employees). The whole company is a mess, they can't keep anyone because the culture and values they try to portray are a facade. You actually aren't "empowered." Get everything involving management in writing.

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Tuition reimbursement is a joke and so are the MMP and MMF discounts. Compensation is also not competitive. There is hardly any work life balance.

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Late night shifts and busy film festival scheduling

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This particular location is just one of the worst. The restaurant used to be operated by a 3rd Party and when the pandemic happened , the hotel closed and after they were able to reopen they decided to make the restaurant and bar part of the hotel. The problem is that the management seemed to have never run any of these establishments before. As a woman who had plenty of experience in restaurant work, I was shocked at the lack of training and knowledge of how certain services should be given. I was also expected to tell my team what to do and I was never given a title change, no announcement was made nor was there a pay raise to my base hourly to indicate this. I was often run ragged trying to take care of my multiple tables and at the end of the day no one really tries to help. Also dealt with people stealing money out of the pooled tips, won’t do that ever again.

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Corrupt management, poor communication, disgruntled employees, lack of anything involving good management, backwards thinking, ideas executed without thinking of the repercussions, employees don’t matter to them, management will harass employees and HR backs managers up, employees have issues with each other because they are all just unhappy, new wmployees are like blood drops in shark tanks, the chef from Australia is beyond rude me and condescending to employees, nobody is safe. Only way to be able to stick around is by being buddy buddy with management and throw others under the bus. I’ve seen it happen to other employees, and I experienced all of that myself. They change menus one day to the next, the system hasn’t even been updated, everything has to be input as open food. Soda machine hasn’t been fixed in over a year. The outside bar has mold in the ice bins, and the fridges behind the bars. Old expired juices being served and management does nothing about it. I regret ever having set foot in such an establishment. HR is ok with management harassing, retaliating, and discriminating against employees.

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Strict Management and long hours

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You can have problems that neither manager or hr cannot solve

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-Strict and high-paying clients -

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Other than long hours, none.