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Hey, Sunshine Kitchen

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Great food and flexibility, but hours are inconsistent - Cashier/Line Cook/Kitchen Prep Hey, Sunshine Kitchen Employee Review

2.0
1 Jul 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great Food Flexible Scheduling Clean Place

Cons

High Turnover. Once hired it seems they give you full time 4-6 shifts that are 5-6 Hours which is good despite lower pay than similar employers. People were constantly leaving, I was hoping to get more hours/shifts, instead they hire more people, give them more hours/shifts and cut the people who've been there. What was very frustrating is that the same people who they hired to take your hours/shifts you were expected to help train without additional pay/benefit while they acted like it was great I was meeting someone new. Schedules fluctuated a lot since I was there. You were often called in last minute, or cut once business got slow. It got to the point where I was being cut all the time, and being scheduled much shorter hours than new hires compared to what they promised me when I was hired. It seems that it changed from them giving me a 'job' to 'help out only when it's busy and leave when it's not thanks for helping!' which wasn't worth my time/effort to go there anymore I was promised a job with consistent hours. They have you do cashier work/kitchen prep/and line cook duties which together we all juggled around doing these duties which made it confusing which roles we played at what times given we'd even swap during the shifts. It actually ended up being more difficult than most full service restaurant jobs due to the task juggling and indirection of each employee's duties /multi role's whereas normal restaurants you more straightforward tasks with better pay. We have tips but they barely affect hourly rate due to sharing the entire house, typically back of house has longer hours/slightly higher rate while front gets tips but I knew this when I signed up. Management seems to not trust workers as they do watch what you're doing constantly even for senior workers which made shifts feel watched/uneasy in my opinion. Sure I forgot some minor tasks every now and then but when management caught it they acted like you didn't know the duties at all and talked to you like a 5 year old, the same small things employee's forgot, I've seen management forget many times. Overall I felt baited into learning a rigid job with many tasks but sooner than later got cut out of my time/money drastically from start to finish and should have gone elsewhere.

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2.0
24 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The food is good and I met a few cool people. Accommodating scheduling.

Cons

Turn over is terrible for a number of reasons. They ask for a lot of work compared to other employers offering similar pay. One of the owners/sisters is passive aggressive and completely in the dark about the day-to-day management and tasks yet hovers to the point of harassment. The manager is pretty old school in that he looks at the workforce as an authoritarian space. He’s paranoid that people gossip about him. Very weird place. Turns into a high school like environment as a result. Despite it being a vegan restaurant, the treatment of people is borderline unethical.

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