team member

serveur au comptoir

surveillant du service alimentaire

sales associate

food service manager

Kernels Popcorn

Kernels Popcorn is a laid-back job, ideal for people looking to gain some experience for their resumes without needing a prior work history. The pace is slow, which makes it a good fit for those who aren't looking for a high-stress environment. I’ve been here long enough to see a management change, and while both bosses have their strengths and weaknesses, your experience really depends on who you’re working under. The new management runs the store more smoothly compared to my old boss, but consistency has been an issue.

You usually work alone unless it's a busier time, like the holiday season when lines can start to form. The downside is that, depending on how many employees work for that specific location, the hours aren't that great.

As for the customers, they’re generally pleasant, though you occasionally get a few asking odd questions like, “What’s the cheese flavour?” Overall, not much to complain about in terms of the people.

Kernels Popcorn is a good entry-level option for students or anyone looking for a part-time job. It provides you with a lot of responsibility (working alone on weekdays) and a variety of different tasks within the position. It was a fun job, especially when you're working with your favourite coworker. You get to try all of the flavours, and the discount (50% off) is a plus. I enjoyed chatting with regular customers and learning the ins and outs of a food service environment. It was definitely a unique position, as most student jobs are in fast food or clothing retail, and it was cool to learn how to pop and glaze popcorn. It is a relatively small group of employees working at Kernels so if there was a coworker you didn't particularly get along with, it was hard to avoid working with them once in a while. Overall, the workplace culture was good and I made a couple work friends. The management was good, and I thought our manager was considerate of the employee's needs and recognized our hard work. the hardest part of the job was working alone on a busy day, as you have to manage to operate the popcorn machines continuously throughout the shift while attending to a long line of customers.

The person working in the morning shift needs to open the store and put the scoops in place, start to pop popcorns that are not enough and cooking caramel popcorns if needed. And the person who does the closing needs to wash almost all of the scoops and pop the popcorns that were almost out of stock and calculate for the earnings of the day and deposit the money into the bank. 
At kernels I learned how to cook popcorn and customer service skills such as how to draw attention from customers, offering samples and taking orders correctly. I also learned how to do closing of a store. 
The management was okay, the machines sometimes has problems and special popcorn out of stock also happened. 
My co-workers were nice. But some of them did work hard as they should have. 
The hardest part of the job was cooking the caramel popcorn, because it requires a lot of time and you have to keep an eye on the cooker all the time, so if the store is really busy, it can be over cooked. 
The most enjoyable part of the job is to meet new customers and co-workers and, to see familiar faces that come all the time.

they seem to go through a lot of new staff, considering they barely even conducted an interview it seems anyone can get hired, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. management is poor to be nice about it, they gave staff 3 hrs for a 2 week period instead of firing them (like they wanted to) or letting them know things aren't working out, to show improvement, etc. and yet the rest of the staff were let known about this awful way of going about it, quite sad. sanitization was practically non existent at this location, no dates on popcorn and no chart showing when things were made etc, so there was no guarantee of freshness, which is ridiculous for having to pay so much as well. all in all, I feel like a lot of the issues have trickled down from higher management, and unfortuntely this store lacked exactly that, management. I'd stay away from this place considering the bins and old popcorn aren't cleaned/disposed of properly, so again, 0 guarantee of freshness. 

Kernels Popcorn is poorly managed and cuts corners any chance they get. You will be under trained and overworked for little pay and appreciation. There is no sense of teamwork and pride in your work. You will work mostly by yourself having to cook, clean, take orders, make orders, cash out, and much more during very busy times of the day. You do the work of 3 people and get paid minimum wage with no tips, no bonuses, and not even a thank you for working hard. They no longer accept cash and have a horrible refund policy leaving store employees as prime targets for angry and frustrated customers. Not to mention health code violations that are completely disregarded by management and corporate. Overall stay away and save yourself the pain and agony unless you have no other options.

Working in the Mayfair location, you can never predict when you will be packed with customers, so if you have free time you must use it wisely. The biggest issue I have working here is the pay, we are not paid 30 minutes after closing. (Ex. Mall closes at 9 but you’re still cleaning at 10, you won’t be paid from 9:30 and on) that has been extremely frustrating because whoever is working morning shift will always leave me with the cleaning. and the cleaning isn’t just going around sweeping the floors, you are scrubbing heavy machines until they are squeaky clean and helping customers and you are typically the only one there. There is way too much to do for closing and we are expected to have it done in 30 minutes by ourselves, which is not realistic.

Working at kernels is difficult, you're expected to do the same work as a manager is capable of doing. Kernels are understaffed, they will have one person open on most days, and one person close on weekdays. As an employee, you are expected to serve customers while also trying to open up shop, or close. Due to the understaffed of kernels, you will have to be able to juggle most of your required duties. This causes most of the staff to stay after their scheduled hours, which aren't compensated with overtime pay. You are only allowed to have one 30 minute break in a shift that is more than 5 hours. The amount of work that is expected from an employee is not worth minimum pay.

Kernels was a job that you just had to do and get it over with. a normal day at Kernels was making popcorn and keeping the place as clean as you can. I honestly don't think I really learned anything from working in Kernels, Managers were never there so I would say I was my own manager the co-works were great though nice females that working in there and I got along with everyone cool conversation. The hardest part of working at Kernels was maintaining costumers and popping fresh popcorn but once you get a hand of it it's a easy. seeing the little girls and boy get the bags of popcorn that they wanted so bad and just eating it with a smile knowing that I made it.

I enjoyed working at Kernels. I met new people who I liked working with. My boss was an amazing person who was helpful and coordinated shifts very well. She helped me learn new time management skills and showed me how to be a hard worker. The people I worked with taught me many different people skills and this helps me strive today. The hardest part about this job would be working on weekdays. The reasoning for this is that I worked alone on weekdays which was tough for me because once is got busy it was hard to maintain. I enjoyed the people I worked with and my boss was a huge impact.

A typical day at work included serving customers, handling the money flow, and making popcorn, Through this job I learned how to handle money (i.e. give change back etc), how to handle difficult customers, and how to work alongside other people. My co-workers were all very friendly and even though I no longer work there, we have sustained long lasting friendships. The hardest part of this job was being on top of everything because it was so fast paced. The most enjoyable part of this job was being able to work alongside the nicest people.

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