ARAMARK Employee Reviews

1.0

Food service

9.4.2024, Job Location: Conway sc

I worked for this company and the management at hicks dining hall is so bad. Managers do not communicate with employees and sit in office with blinds and doors closed.

Employees there are very bad. There is constant fights, and bullying going on. No one gets along there ! People walk out and quit and get rehired the following week like nothing happened. A lot of theft going on there.

Supervisors there are bad too. They walk around eating all day and don’t help employees when needed. This is the worst company I have ever worked for in my 50 years of employment! Too much drama and favoritism there. They promise you overtime to work when they need you. Then send you home the next day so you don’t get the overtime. They lie to your face and do not appreciate good employees.

The students there are not happy with the food there either. Someone better get control over that place or they will lose their contract.

1.0

Supervisor (Former Employee)

18.11.2023, Job Location: Greenville, SC

What is the best part of working at the company?
Friends I made while working there

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
General manager and chef manager
They are very condensending and all right emotionally abusive

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The upper management and the overall work ethic of the status at Bob Jones absolutely needs to be looked into. I had gone over 2 years without an evaluation. Asked and asked and never got an evaluation. Moral is very very low.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Normally coming in and management telling me what I could have done better even though I was going above and beyond for Aramark.

4.0

Route Sales Support (Current Employee)

17.11.2023, Job Location: Louisville, KY

I worked, briefly for Aramark. In my time I learned about their company philosophies and culture. Aramark management watches the needs of their employees.

They accommodate those needs as much as possible. In my experience both my immediate manager and her manager knew my limitations because they watched me. In the end we parted ways because we all knew my physical limitations were impacting my ability to do the job.

It was an amicable separation that resulted in mutual respect. I have never encountered this type of job culture before. It is clear that Aramark hires for and instills a culture of care and compassion.

3.0

FSS (Current Employee)

11.11.2023, Job Location: Seattle, WA

Company seems to be geared toward high energy, high drive individuals, which isn't a bad thing.

So far, they've been right when they say you get out what you put into it. That being said, it can be difficult to stay motivated when your numbers aren't where they want them to be. It's very much a quantity over quality atmosphere and even if you're the best, it's tough to hit those numbers when you first start.

It gets easier as you go on, but the start can be rough.

4.0

Cashier (Former Employee)

8.11.2023, Job Location: Conway, AR

The employees are to perform the services need to make sure the business meets the criteria and remain friendly. We achieved recording the number of people who attend the cafeteria daily and special events.

I have gained a lot of experience in accounting, finance and management while working for the company. The bar is very high to work for Aramark. However, once you get in you see how much involvement and interaction it is.

3.0

Food Service Director (Current Employee)

8.11.2023, Job Location: Dallas Area

I have worked for Aramark for several years and generally it is a good environment. Their proprietary food management software is robust and relatively easy to use, but could use some improvements the company doesn't seem to understand it needs.

Their benefits have always been solid, but we're excited this year for a new insurance plan option that sounds like it will be both amazing and low cost. The corporate culture used to be a joke, with many people obviously clueless at the top level, but that issue has gotten a LOT better over the past couple years.

They still have some work to do, but they are doing well at seeing where a few key things need to change. Overall, as far as big companies go, Aramark has a lot of pros and few cons (again, depending on account/location/line of business).

3.0

Customer Service Representative (CSR) (Current Employee)

5.11.2023, Job Location: Merced, CA

What is the best part of working at the company?
Commission routes, you go home when you finish. Teamsters backed Union. Competitive pay!

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Publicly trading company! They always want more to keep shareholders happy. You could be driver of the month then be written up another.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
You’re pretty much left alone! Run your route, come back unload your truck, leave paperwork on managers desk, if he’s there, address any issues or leave notes for him.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Clock in, load my truck, run my route, come back, unload my truck, park my truck, Go inside to do paperwork and address any issues accrued or encountered. Clock out!

1.0

Kitchen Helper (Former Employee)

3.11.2023, Job Location: Loyola Campus

The place is a toxic place and unorganized. The managers are nit professional, they can scream and yell at you and expect you do all the job done without a proper training.

People come and go and sometime they are not bother to come to work. Go somewhere else before you waste your time. The older employees are yawning, complaining and rude.

2.0

Facilities Worker (Former Employee)

3.11.2023, Job Location: Minute Maid Park, TX

People are nice here but work is very slow. Even the Temps as well as the workers have to wait about half an hour (after arriving) for the managers to actually give them work to do.

Not only that, finishing your work early could earn some distrust between you and your manager for some odd reason. Taking a seat for a minute could also get you called out. You have to wait for your break.

Not a very ideal place to work but the people there are nice.

3.0

HR Manager (Current Employee)

2.11.2023, Job Location: Nashville, TN

Every day is a new adventure and the work is engaging enough to keep you motivated.

Management is touch and go depending on who you work for but there is definitely an atmosphere of popularity contest and many higher managers make you feel like you have to do what they want when they want like a glorified assistant if you want to be in their favor and have any chance of growing.

Their needs are always the most important compared to what anyone else needs and it has to be done right now.

1.0

Tour and Charter Boat Captain (Former Employee)

30.10.2023, Job Location: Wahweap marina

What is the best part of working at the company?
Pay is low, concern for employees is terrible. They take advantage of employees, making them do a lot that is not in job description. Then get annoyed or shame you if you refuse. There is no upkeep and maintenance on equipment. So there’s usually no equipment, if there is, it does not work. Boats don’t run they don’t get fixed. I wish Disney would come in and take over the concession that Aramark has inside the park.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Pretty much everything, the company sucks, you never know when your time is up, it doesn’t matter how dedicated you try to be.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Work environment is gossiping, hungover, peers/managers, sucks
Culture is mostly Mormon

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
As a captain you never know what to expect, a typical day involves doing many things that are not on your job description

1.0

Custodial/Maintenance Services (Former Employee)

30.10.2023, Job Location: Alton, IL

* Try to clean my area in spite of a lack of equipment and other distractions: Teacher complaints and special projects mostly.
* I learned nothing
* Management was biased and demanding assigning work loads based on personal preference.
* Culture was negative and combative
* Hardest part of the job was keeping my thoughts to myself and trying my best to manage my workload based on what was going on that day.

2.0

Supervisor (Current Employee)

26.10.2023, Job Location: Kdoc

It's very hard and basically scary to try and call in sick. Even though we work with inmates and food they'd rather us come to work sick. My hours were reduced because I was sick and even had a drs note. You can tell them about things happening and they say they'll look into it but nothing ever happen.

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Barista (Former Employee)

24.10.2023, Job Location: High Point, NC

Serving up garbage gmo food to university students paying over 100 a year at HPU and calling it gold .. asking me to bend over backwards for little to no pay and working four hour shifts.

Having me do things out of my job description that are the managers job very hazardous unloading boxes and running through the hot kitchen while the manager vapes in the stock room and plays around complaining to us about how she can’t get a day off to get her teeth pulled but makes so much more than us since she is the breadwinner in her family after all.

I did not stay more than two days after getting micromanaged and talked down to like a dog by a training manager who obviously is neuro divergent or autistic.

2.0

Cool (Former Employee)

24.10.2023, Job Location: Greenville, SC

I’m gonna keep it REAL & RAW .. this is one of the worse kitchen jobs i have ever worked. for starters, you’re the only one in the kitchen working and they refused to hire help.

You’re catering for 300 people a day & it is nearly impossible to get the food out when you hardly have the stock you need. secondly, they play by seniority rules to the T! one employee was on some sort of leave and i got all the hours. but the moment they came back my hours were cut and this was never explained to me in my intial interview.

I feel as if they were only hiring me to fill a temporary spot. what am i supposed to do with 2 days a week???!!! the pay is pure s.h.i.t. and the wannabe head “chef” doesn’t know a thing about running a kitchen. if you can, stay away from this place if you’re looking for a kitchen job. i’d give it 0.5 stars out of 5 if i was able.

1.0

Catering Captain (Former Employee)

24.10.2023, Job Location: Harrisonburg, VA

Culture and its leadership are terrible. They ask far too much of their employees whilst demanding said employees give up their lives in order to serve the company. They boast of being a company that cares about work-life balance, yet their practices say the opposite, especially if you are salaried.

If you are salaried, they don't want you to have a life outside of Aramark. Aramark must become your life. Stay away. Stay very far away.