Does Native Foods pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Native Foods employees rate their compensation and benefits as 2.5 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Native Foods. This rating has improved by 3% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Native Foods?

51% of Native Foods employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Native Foods 3.0 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.2 for culture and values and 2.6 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Native Foods?

Front of House (8) , Shift Lead (6) , Cashier (3) , Cook (2) , General Manager (2) , Line Cook (2) , Manager (2) , Runner (2)

What are the pros of working at Native Foods according to real employee reviews?

"Great people and music" ((in 5 reviews)); "Cheap Vegan food, SUPER awesome coworkers, fun work environment, friendly customers" ((in 3 reviews)); "Free food provided for every employee as long as you work a shift same day." ((in 3 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Native Foods according to real employee reviews?

"Managers and AGMs are constantly harassed by upper management about rewards card sales and cutting employee hours." ((in 7 reviews)); "Management is extremely un professional." ((in 5 reviews)); "No positions available for managers at other locations." ((in 4 reviews)); "Low pay for market areas, coupled with a shortage of managers causes for a rough work week." ((in 3 reviews))

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Native Foods Reviews

3.3

51% would recommend to a friend

(57 total reviews)

Michael Mack

49% approve of CEO

29% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.5

Diversity and inclusion

3.2

Culture and values

3.0

Work/Life balance

2.6

Career opportunities

2.5

Senior management

2.5

Compensation and benefits

Native Foods has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 57 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Native Foods employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Restaurants and food service industry (3.7 stars).

Reviews by job title

57 reviews

1.0

22 Oct 2014

Native Foods CEO and his wife are going to exploit the restaurant concept at expense of others

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Only good if you want to be lured away from your current job only to be let go after they data mine you and replaced by someone else they can do it to. Example, revolving door of 5 executive chefs, 3 CFO's and several other key corporate operations personnel the past 2 years.

Cons

Culture is a mess. It is not an open and honest culture. Extremely high turnover at corporate office and field operations. If you like getting worked to the bone, constantly working on "deadline" and working 20 days straight then it may be for you. When hired, promised a review in 6 months with promise of a pay increase if performance was successfully achieved but never happened. Even when it was brought up it was brushed aside. Cannot trust CEO and current CFO. Toxic environment.

2.0

3 Nov 2015

Kitchen Manager

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Good concept, finally have some people in charge that seem to know what they're doing. Customers and employee's are for the most part passionate about the product.

Cons

Complete lack of management training. Not enough corporate support, no clear direction. Lack of involvement from upper management, unreal expectations. Horrible hourly wages, huge turn over even for food industry.

2.0

23 Jul 2015

Disappointed in my experience with Native Foods. I was a GM for a little over 18 months and recently left.

General manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Vegan, delicious (mostly), good hourly staff. Management is also generally good. The bulk of the menu is scratch made. Typically the guests are super excited to eat there, so service can be friendly and fun. Cult like following.

Cons

Taken over by the board (venture capitalists) 12/2014. Since has become a clean up for future sale. Operations level managers are forced to drive labor down, production up and basically it is destroying what was once a great thing. The morale in every store is so low...turnover is crazy now. In the words of the new CEO, Craig Grimes, what needs to happen is for all of the "old managers to be replaced by new ones. We need people that don't know how it used to be and are instead focused on what it will become". Well, what it is becoming is fast food. With fast food comes higher turnover, a lesser experience for the guest and the diminishing of the product. We once had a shining star with a future. What we now have is a pit of negativity, mistrust and disappointed guests.

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