Pros
- Good experience working a job that won't care about you as an employee - Earn great experience dealing with horrible customers - Half off food, with a limit of 1 purchase per day no more than $4-5 worth. (Not great but eh) - Screw Discounts. You work here. Steal food if it's going to be thrown away. Who cares if you take ice cream, a cookie, or a shake if it gets dumped later? Your manager will. - Work as a crew member and work cleaning tasks. You'll get built over a summer if you work 60+ hours weekly. no gym membership - Teriyaki chicken in the bathroom. If I had a photo I'd show you. Best moment of my life was finding a tray of Teriyaki chicken on a baby changing table. - There are moments that make it all worth it. Certain Co-Workers, Certain customers, Little kids begging for ice-cream... Just be an ice-cream man. That's the best part.
Kontras
- No Breaks (Seriously. you don't believe me? try the job) - Customers Always Upset - Never seen a co-worker earn more than $12 an hour (some I knew worked for 4 years) - Company fails to tell most employees whether they are part time, or full time, just to fill out hours needed and minimize overtime - Most stores earn roughly $4,000 in a night but only "Budget" $60 worth of pay to close the stores which usually means it falls on 2 unlucky people to stay 3 hours later and take orders/cook as they clean. - When the store is closed and 2 people cook/clean at the same time, drive thru orders can have a super long wait time and customers get very understandably angry (I've seen people wait for 20+ minutes on food just because chicken takes so long to start) - You are always on call. ALWAYS. It could be 7:00 on a Friday and someone says "You need to be here" And they expect you to be there. - Store has cameras which most managers tell employees "Corporate can watch you as you work" But I'm not sure I believe that.