Good Food Store Reviews

Management is deaf to employee concerns. There is no recognition when you do an excellent job or any sort ofperformance review. Management only speaks to most employees when they make a large mistake, never to offer encouragement or guidance. Since most managers work upstairs in offices away from the kitchen, they are very ignorant of the morale of the kitchen, which is always very low. When someone inevitably quits, they drag their feet on hiring anyone else, often deciding not to hire anyone and making the rest of the staff pick up the slack. Management will often make sweeping changes to how things are done in the kitchen without informing or asking the staff who actually does the work for advice, first, which leads to confusion, inefficiency and a lack of product on the sales floor. Management consistently ignores feedback from staff and downplays their mistakes when they are extremely obvious. The deli kitchen, cafe, deli service and meat and seafood are incredibly badly managed and are always hiring because of their very high attrition—just check the website and see for yourself. If literally all you care about is having a job that pays okay and had decent benefits then it’s fine. If you care at all about being seen as a person, working under competent leadership, having the chance to advance in the company, have any input in what you are doing or have any sort of satisfaction in your job, look elsewhere.

In the words of a friend of mine who served in the military “ I quit the good food store because it was too much like the military”. The store is unnecessarily regimented. They have a very high turnover rate because they aren’t willing to work with employees needs or changes that can occur. You are made to sign a contract at the beginning of employment that states you agree specifically to the schedule. If any changes occur in your life they will more likely rehire than work with you. Management doesn’t take into account your needs only what you can do for them. There is little interaction with fellow co workers and can feel extremely isolating at times. Overall a pretentious air surrounds the place. Jobs are menial and easy to burn out on, incremental wage increase over very long periods of time make it hard to move up and make ends meet. Management is not trained to work with employees, they do things more like scheduling and ordering. HR is literally two people and not enough for the 300 people who work there. Unnecessarily corporate for a one off store.