YO! Sushi Reviews

Pros

- Inevitable bond with the people you work alongside. - The food. The sushi, sashimi, karaage, katsu, squid. Huge variety, and it tastes amazing when done right. - Up to 5 plates during your paid 30min break if working at least a 6h30min shift. That's policy. - If your manager is understanding, they will work with you and your availability to squeeze in enough hours so you don't get a payslip that only has £50 in it. - Speaking of payslips, the pay is weekly. With a week in arrears, but nevertheless. - Quite extensive training when you start, that you do in fact get paid for. From what I remember you can complete the online part of the training within 2-4 hours and get paid for 6 hours as standard. - Hygiene and food quality/control levels were very high at the branch I worked. We used to commonly have a 15-min timer ring all day to remind us to wash our hands. Utensils, pans, knives, equipment were thoroughly washed multiple times a day.

Cons

- Management issues. disagreements, needless micro-managing of well-performing staff. Whether or not the manager was wrong, it was often a childish argument like the one you surely had with your parent when you were young where they were incapable of losing an argument and inevitably replied with "because I said so" to make themselves feel better. - Pretty disgusting case of not paying staff all the hours they have worked. There is a company-wide culture among managers to cut costs to maximise overall profits for the company, so often staff who are working until say 10:30pm will be clocked out at 10:00pm (without them knowing!) thus effectively cutting their day's wage by just over £4 (minimum wage considering.) This may seem insignificant, however sum this up alongside 5 more shifts that week/20 more that month and that 30min = £4 quickly becomes £80 at the end of the month, £960 after a year of this. Better believe Tesco when they say "every little helps." - On a similar note, the rota is changed almost daily to suit managers' own availabiity more than that of their workers who formally submit their availability often weeks in advance. You would see you are off on Friday evening and have work in the afternoon on Saturday, so you would make plans only for them to be foiled as you suddenly have a 10-hour shift scheduled that Friday without any prior warning. - You are required to work a 6h30min shift to receive a 30-min paid break with free food. Sneakily, some shifts are precisely 6h. Therefore, you do not qualify. This can happen multiple times a week and is quite disheartening, but subject to manager discretion. - With regard to career opportunities: without moving to another city or to another branch, promotion is very limited and only occurs when a new position opens up as somebody steps up, down or is fired. In essence, if each of the management positions are filled, you could remain a team member for many long years. - I could think of more, but I don't need to drag the company name through the dirt to get my point across.

Pros

- Learnt new skills within the workplace

Cons

- Discount never worked in restaurant - Awful politics in the brand - Constant shifting of managers - Far too much expected from staff, 9 hours without breaks. - Excessive pressure for minimum wage