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Low wage, hard to get a promotion

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Now for the extreme negatives..

Honestly its lame being a hostess. You open doors for people, which I understand the importance of in customer hospitality. But I've had people regard me as a pretty door stop, and it gets old when both customer and employer objectify and consider you nothing more than fodder. At the location I worked, there's a hierarchy with the hostess team. Management doesn't care for you unless your loved by the Senior Hostess, which can suck when they only care about their own promotion and not the team. My experience with our "leaders" was some malicious mix of knocking new employees down and trying to make them quit so that they won't outperform.
The process of becoming a server from a host is a long one, and not many get the opportunity despite their potential.
Working at Cactus, you need thick skin. Not because of the customers, but because of the employees. There is a lot of passive aggression, and most the time the favourite subject is who the team hates the most. Its a lot of hostility and the vibe may not be right for you. Hopefully that's not the case.

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If you're not in the mood to be social on an off night, you have to put up a front and the music volume doesn't help.

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Middle management can sometimes hold you back from being promoted.

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Work environment was dirty
Did not uphold food quality

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Having changed their auto-gratuity rule to 12 or more and only for reservations has been a way to solve problems that really hangs servers out to dry. Now, if a large party walks in and chooses not to tip, the server still has to tip out on them and is not protected by the restaurant. Practices like this are why cactus no longer wins "best place to work". There's also quite a divide between FOH and BOH staff

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They promise a lot during the hiring process, and throughout any subsequent attempts to ask about moving up. Lots of persistence helps, but it tends to feel like a lot of empty promises.
Management tends to micromanage the staff, particularly the hostesses.
15 minute breaks when you work from 6pm - 1am really really suck.
The pay isn't worth the amount of work you do, not until you become a server. (Like cleaning up puke, the washrooms, outside the restaurant in the rain)

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Terrible terrible terrible hours. Offer you full time and then only get 1-3 shifts a week. On top of that hostess plus other jobs don't get a cut of the tips which are bragged about how much servers make frequently.

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- Management does not care about certain departments
- They do not care about your well being
- Voicing your opinion is clearly a no go
- There is no moving up with the company. The company preaches
they are all about moving the right people up. They continue to make promises and do not keep their word. Unless you are willing to bend over backwards for this company, do not work here.
-Tip out a lot

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Can get crazy busy and management can be a little difficult at times.