Cheddar's Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Working as a busser at Cheddar's is a great way to learn about the restaurant industry and develop teamwork and communication skills. The salary is not high, but there are opportunities for tips and growth within the company."

"During my workday as a busser I found most of my fellow employees to be very lazy and exceptionally rude, especially the management, tables were rarely cleaned properly, and most people treated every member of the cleaning like a lesser person. I had several workers talking about me behind my back while I was the only one properly cleaning the tables and seats (which is disgusting that nobody would clean the tables in their entirety, would leave the seats wet and covered in crumbs, and would leave food and other trash on the floor), most of the time because I didn't have every table clean immediately after guests stood up. Back in the kitchen I never once saw the floors or the grill cleaned, and it seemed as though they cooked every item on the grill in a small puddle of grease. Countless times I saw dirty silverware be used to serve guests, which is absolutely disgusting and completely unprofessional, and a few of those times a manager actually took dirty silverware out to serve a guest. At times when taking trash out to the dumpster (which is inside a locked area in the back of the building, with no ac) I would be left back there unable to get back inside for about a half hour to an hour at a time, and any attempt for me to contact management over the communicator (to be let back in) was directly ignored, except by other responsible workers of course (not any member of management). My step mother worked with me here as a host and ended up walking out mid-shift after a manager directly insulted her on her "life choices" and another host was trying to purposefully get her in trouble with management. I ended up getting fired for picking up a $5 tip (that was completely separate from the check) off a table while cleaning it, that I planned to add into the tip share at the end of the day when I clocked off (if any of you know how the tips work in a restaurant, which I didn't because this was my first actual restaurant job, you're not suppose to do that)."

What do you like about working at Cheddar's?

"It's kind of laid-back and it's a pretty easy job to be a host. The only thing is it can be very boring on slow shifts or very stressful if there are issues with servers or managers or something goes wrong."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"I've never gotten a raise and I don't think I can even get one. The only way to make more money is to become a server or a bartender, but when you're underage that's kind of out of the question"

What don't you like about working at Cheddar's?

"The nights that are either too slow and boring or the days when something goes wrong and we're understaffed or something doesn't work."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be more cautious of where I place servers. Try to cut people strategically. Hire more people that we need."

"A great place to work"

What do you like about working at Cheddar's?

"The flexibility of schedules."

What don't you like about working at Cheddar's?

"Have been promised the opportunity to move up in the company for the past three months and nothing has happened."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To learn to communicate with one another."

What do you like about working at Cheddar's?

"Cheddars has the right concept to the new philosophy in the cookie cutter restaurant world. Casual dinning however is the death of restaurants as we had at one time. Corporate restaurants have killed the originality of food as we knew it....."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Just say no thanks and stay where you can make food the old fashion way, we cook it."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Stay in hotels or work for non corporate restaurants."