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The Raymond Restaurant

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Great employees/ Awful owner - Anonymous employee The Raymond Restaurant Employee Review

3.0
13 Jun 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The people that work there are the best and actually care about making customers happy. They actually still have hearts after beingg treated like crap from the owner and rude customers. Even when customers excell at being THE ABSOLUTE WORST, they smile and walk away. When there are sweet regulars who come in, they really make them feel at home. Its amazing to see how people still care like that. They commit and they should expect the company they work for to take care of them and be sympathetic and understanding but they dont because "its the raymond" and it doesnt work the way a normal restaurant should. Its a shame. The bar and food is great. The way its operated and owned is the worst. This place is beyond understaffed and god forbid you actually have a grandparent that is dying or have an injury and cant make it to work, they are less than understanding.

Cons

Unfortunately, there are so many....The owner spies on employees daily, through a security system that should be used for documenting something that requires security footage. She also has no service background and understanding of how rude customers can be to employees and constantly comps anything to please them since she is beyond obsessed about their rating on Yelp which is bs since everyone who uses Yelp to complain only does it because they had one bad experience. She frequently shows up unannounced, and tells all the customers who are just trying to enjoying their lunch break or business meeting that she owns the place. I've seen her sadly accuse even the most veteran employees, of stealing from her as well. Also there is a creepy waiter that gets handsy (he'll say he was being friendly) and if he touches you, dont say anything about it because you'll be fired as a lawsuit liability :)

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5.0
24 Dec 2021
Recommend
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Pros

When I worked there we had a solid team of lifelong servers and generally solid FOH staffthat didn’t slack and had each others backs and management let us do our thing. Management always had our backs when it was us vs customers which was awesome

Cons

Management had a high turnover which led to a lack of rapport building with management and sometimes clueless or just alcoholic management lol

4.0
28 Aug 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Ownership will spend money to improve everything....but always to the cheapest contractor. Valued member of the community, over 30 years of service. Kitchen staff is phenomenal. Bar program is best in the country.

Cons

Bartenders are whiny brats who feel that they are artists and have difficult time dealing with rest of staff. Ownership has unrealistic expectations often (have no service industry background.)

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