restaurant manager

directeur de restaurant

chef de service

second chef d'exploitation

host/hostess

Lavelle

You start around 4-5, usually doesn’t pick up until 7-8  then pretty much turns into a club, which means you typically work until 3-5am. The staff felt like family which was great but management was terrible. They prioritized money over absolutely everything, by which I mean they turn a blind eye to anything if there’s money coming in. They lack leadership skills and are quick to throw you under the bus if it means saving their own ***. If you expect to enjoy any time to yourself, don’t. They expect you to work 5x/week,10-14hours/day and will schedule last minute meetings with couple day notice and expect you to cancel any and all plans to attend these meetings. If you want to make a lots of money but don’t care about having much of a life during the summer, this place is good for that. They’re also very protective of their reputation, there was a incident which led to a staff member getting severely injured and the director was adamant on not calling the ambulance because she didn’t want to cause a scene. Be careful working there, keep to yourself and make some good friends with those around you but know that they want you to fall in line or will throw you out quicker than you can blink.

Pros:
Decent money during the summer
Good vibes during the summer
Good view

CONS:
Horrible Management
-Management does not know what they’re doing. They over schedule servers, get no tables for three hours then decide to let you go home as not busy. 
-One manager comes rushing to you while you are talking to guests telling you to go take care of other table - very unprofessional. 
-they DO NOT give you time off between May until September so don’t even bother asking. 

Payment machines are garbage. Get no reception which then adds time to your flow of things,, example payment can take five-ten mins to process all the while your guests can be needing something, then they complain and it’s a domino effect. 

Kitchen is very slow and very unprofessional. They do not know how to send appetizers together, they also like to send entrees and appetizers all at once so guests have no room on their table... will mix up tables so guests will have wrong items. 

Long hours- once worked a double 10am-430am with no break,, lost 8 pounds that weekend. 
Average shift is 4/5pm until 3/4am

Management takes over two months to pay your tips due from machine payments. However, they still have time to go on vacations…

Traumatic, literally will drive you insane. Long hours, never pay on time. Extremely rude and toxic, catty management and coworkers. Under qualified staff, terminal payment machines never work, ugly uniform, awful clientele. Will work you to the bone and have no respect for you. If you value any sort of morale you will not work here. Your job is never secure, management and staff have been fired and rehired a million times. Just not worth it for the same money you can find elsewhere.

With understanding the venue is new, management very much lacked communication and a good relationship with staff. Employees were expected to know everything, without proper training or direction. Treated everyone like they are replaceable , which ruined the overall culture. Poor human resource.

I never worked on a roof top patio it was great fun. Guests were fun and entertaining especially on busy weekends.
The serving team was great and made so many friends this summer. Management was helpful and respectful throughout the summer chaos.
I'm looking forward to returning next summer for a double dip of fun......

No one knows what they're doing, drinks and food take a while to come out, not because it takes long to make, but because no one is running them. You'll be busy not because you're swamped with tables, but because none of your tables have plates, glasses, cutlery etc.

Money is great, but totally not worth working in a toxic environment. Management changes every year. Lots of entitlement involved. Lack of consideration for employees

Lavelle is an incredibly toxic environment where nobody is trained to do their job correctly. The only thing keeping this place open is the gorgeous location.

Very fun place to work and you could make great money even as a barback. Some of the managers and supervisors are very nice and supportive. However, the restaurant is extremely fast paced and sometimes stressful 

This place gets very busy. So it needs people who are willing to work hard and if you are one of those, this is a great place to work at. Lovely staff (except a few). Can be exhausting but super fun to work

Top Job Titles	Average salary
Restaurant manager 6 salaries reported	$22.17 per hour
Directeur de restaurant 3 salaries reported	$24.00 per hour
Chef de service 4 salaries reported	$54,184 per year
Second chef d'exploitation 3 salaries reported	$47,500 per year
Host/hostess 1 salary reported	$20.00 per hour

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