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Good team work
Home services driver (Current Employee), Colchester – May 27, 2013
Pros: great team spirit
Cons: the routes get cut when there is staff shortages
In my current role, I travel around the local community delivering vital, hot meals to elderly and vulnerable clients. I also conduct Safe and Well Checks to make sure clients are safe. As a second responsibility, I work in the office performing various admin duties.
Daily vehicle maintenance to ensure roadworthiness - oven maintenance – food safety, – more... making sure food reaches clients at minimum core temperature - responsible for client’s payment and making sure receipts and money balance.
My co-worker and the clients are what makes the job enjoyable and you know after each day you have done something that will of helped someone else. The hardest and annoying thing about this job is that when there isn't enough staff the routes and clients are divided between other rounds that go in similar areas. This is a hard for all concerned including the clients that get their dinner late because of this. – less
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Great company to work for willing to promote within company.
Food Preparation / Server (Former Employee), Saint Charles, IL – May 25, 2013
Pros: free lunch and drink.
Setting up and prep work for hot lunch. I learned that hard work pays off. Management very friendly. Co-workers work just as hard as you do. The hardest part is Friday closing involves emptying food steamers and cleaning with lime away.
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productivity
Cook (Current Employee), Chelmsford, MA – May 24, 2013
Pros: enjoyed working with customers in my building, safety of the storage of food.
Cons: pay, can be stressful sometimes
prepping, cooking and making sure all food is kept at right degree of temperature. preparing food in a timely manner for lunch and breakfast, ensuring we have healthy choices on our menu. health and guidelines are to be followed through to guarantee customer and employee welfare.
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fun but professional work place
floater (Former Employee), manchester – May 23, 2013
i really enjoyed the job, great people, typical day consited of starting in kitchen, then serving to walking round the hospital filling and stock checking vending.
the hardest part of the job was being moved around so much but the best part was i got to meet so many people doing so.
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McDaniel College
Grill Cook (Former Employee), Westminster, MD – May 22, 2013
This company is a very well run company. But the problem is that they are not usually willing to promote from within. The management that I worked under for the first 2 years really taught me a lot and were very helpful in teaching everyone of us the perfect way to run an event. Overall I enjoyed working for the college, but in the end I chose to go – more... back to school and better my knowledge of the field I would like to have a career in. – less
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33 years at uvm foodservice name of company changed 3 from buy outs
general food producer (Current Employee), Burlington, VT – May 22, 2013
Pros: potancial on the job training, promotions and reaching new jobqualifations ang job levels up good benefits
Cons: managment can turn on someone like a heart beat, work 15 or more years can cause a move to the pasture, lot of lay off times during the year not good for the family man
they keep workers busy good job growth if your young but demanding on personal life but job performance is more popuality management can change positive or negative on new manager no protection with time of service.The longer you sty the higher hour rate goes up student breaks and summer employment disappears especialy with new managers that once you – more... reach a high hourly rate and reached bad health or age 50 plus.co workers pretty friendly but the come and go.hardest part pleasing management and most enjoyable part? lost the love with the company and food service – less
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productive work place
Food Service Manager (Former Employee), chicago – May 21, 2013
fast pace work place handled internal and external catering events.always listen the hardest part of my job was outside staff the most enjoyable part of my job was making sure that my clients needs were met
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Easiest place to work.
Cook (Former Employee), Beaufort, SC – May 21, 2013
Pros: eat all day.
Cons: not enough hours.
Prepare food for the day and prep for the next.I learned how to cook different foods.The managers were cool.Co-workers were laid back and fun to work around.Sampling the food while we were cooking.
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Quick paced, fun with manageable preasure points
Sr. Administrative Assistant (Current Employee), Detroit, MI – May 20, 2013
Pros: loads of potential for individual advancement
Cons: individual advancement may be tied to effectiveness of immediate manager.
Amazing multinational corporation. Great policies and loads of potential. Upward mobility may be "Thwarted" by Unit level incompatibilities. Extremely busy upper level leadership might present lag in communication effectiveness for some front line employees. Most enjoyable part of the job is having daily communication with the other team members and – more... client. The hardest part of the job is managing through the undocumented adjustments of immediate Management while maintaining a congenial disposition. – less
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Not a fun place to work
Cashier (Current Employee), Binghamton, NY – May 20, 2013
Pros: health benefits are not bad
Cons: no advancement, management is horrible, there is no balance with life and work, not everyone is treated equal here
You pretty much work and get treated like an animal, and not like a human being. If you have a life and family outside of work I recommend you to not work for Sodexo.
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fast paced up beat enviorment
Supervisor (Former Employee), denver colorado – May 19, 2013
i enojyed working at this job foe 12 years unforunatly the position was eliminated.
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It is a good company to gain experience
(Sous and Pastry Chef) (Current Employee), Greensboro, NC – May 18, 2013
Pros: benifits and experience
Cons: growth and support for all chefs
Over all review is pretty good. You are put in a sorts of conditions that you have to find soultions to the issues daily.
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very low pay
Huntington, WVA, Dishwasher (Former Employee), Huntington, WV – May 17, 2013
Cons: low pay
I will never work for this company again! Too low wages pay! I was not enjoying work with them, people doesn't care plus manager keep yell at us for no reason!
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Food Server (Former Employee), Miami, OK – May 17, 2013
Pros: n/a
Cons: n/a
Work started with cleaning of the area to be used and serving food as students entered college cafe. I learnt to take the different temps on food and how hot or cold food must be in order to server to students. Management and co-workers were always cooperative in getting the job done. although this was and easy job, I guess the hardest part of the job – more... to me was probably washing dishes and most enjoyable part would have to be cooking and preparing food. – less
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WORKPLACE
TICKET OFFICER (SECURITY OFFICER) (Former Employee), MANCHESTER(UNITED KINGDOM) – May 17, 2013
Pros: discounted food rates for staff
Cons: when required to stay back
L HAVE IN THE PAST YEAR WORK WITH SODEXO IN MANCHESTER,UK,BUT JUST RECENT MOVED BACK TO IRELAND,WHILE STILL WITH MY FORMER EMPLOYER,I HAVE ENJOYED WORKING & LOOKING FORWARD ON A DAILY BASIS GOING INTO WORK HAS MY WORK INVOVES CUSTOMER SERVICE,WHICH GAVE ME LOTS OF OPPURTUNITIES TO MEET PEOPLE OF INTEREST & VARIOUS WORKS OF LIFE,THIS MAKE MY WORK SO – more... EASY HAS ALOT MY PERSONALITY LOVE MEET PEOPLE,MY CO-WORKER ARE A TEAM PLAYERS AND HELPS IN DAY TO DAY ACTIVITIES WHEN NEED AT PEAK-TIMES,I DO LIAS WITH MY SITE MANAGER WHICH MADE ME LEARN MORE ON HOW TO ADHERE BY COMPANY POLICIES AT TIMES. – less
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Great teaching environment
Dietetic Intern (Former Employee), Philadelphia, PA – May 16, 2013
Great support and learning models. A lot of different exposure to a whole host of populations.
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Average Job
Customer Service (Former Employee), Tempe, AZ – May 16, 2013
Working as a server felt mostly like an average food service job. The plus side of working with them was that they were very very understanding about having to juggle school work with the job.
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Ehhhh
Waiter (Former Employee), Richland, Pa – May 15, 2013
Managers were all over the place and most people were bitter and angry to be working there.
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Gained a lot of experience
Food Service Manager (Current Employee), Allentown, PA – May 14, 2013
Traveled a ton and helped open many different units. Very outgoing staff and managers at every unit!
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flexible work space, able to work with a college students schedule
server (Former Employee), Mansfield, PA – May 14, 2013
Pros: free lunches, flexible work hours
Cons: extremely hot work environment due to multiple ovens
a typical day at work i would come in and stock the coolers with anything needed for that day, clean all counter surfaces as well as the ovens and be prepared for a rush of students between classes. The people i worked with were very friendly and easy to talk to, I get along with just about anyone. The best part about this job was the fact that they – more... would work with my class schedule. – less
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About Sodexo

You might say this company does the cooking and cleaning for its corporate clients. Sodexo, Inc., is a leading foodservice operator – Read more