Pros
Free employee meals for every shift that you work, lots of internal growth opportunities if you can stay with the company for long enough. Their ethical approach to food and ingredients is also very commendable.
Cons
Disrespect among coworkers - they basically tell you to put on a happy face for the customer but everyone actually treats each other terribly when the customers aren't looking, especially when the restaurant gets busy during peak hours and everything descends into absolute chaos. Ignorant management doesn't help either!! I didn't receive ANY training program when I was hired. On my first day, I watched a video about how to report sexual harassment and call a national hotline if you have any other legally-influenced problems in the work place, and after that I was literally put on the food line and told to just make menu items without any other explanation for ANYTHING. If I wasn't already a huge Chipotle consumer before this job, I would have probably died from the stress overload. Despite my lack of training for weeks, I was frequently chastised by the management for not knowing various procedures of operating the restaurant that my coworkers refused to teach me when I asked them for help. Mentioning this lack of training to my boss in a polite way only seemed to merit her commenting on my "poor attitude," and this was ultimately why I left the job. While the pay is slightly higher than most per-hour rates for a fast-food restaurant, the enormous expectations they place upon employees hardly makes up for this slightly above-average pay per hour. If you enjoy being disrespected, constantly stressed out, treated badly by many customers and the majority of your coworkers - then this is the perfect job for you! Otherwise, go elsewhere and fast.
