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Harvester is a family-friendly restaurant chain. They serve British food.

harvester.co.uk

Harvester job reviews

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  • Best thing

    you keep your own tips

    Worst thing

    pretty much everything - little respect from management and coworkers, overworked and underpaid

    1.3

    Harvester Employee, March 2024

  • Best thing

    Interactions with customers

    Worst thing

    On feet all day

    1.6

    Harvester Employee, December 2023

  • Best thing

    Fun working with people and interacting with the customers

    Worst thing

    Customers can be so rude and mean

    3.5

    Harvester Waitress, November 2023

  • Best thing

    The discount and the hours

    Worst thing

    The stress ,the untrained team , the toxic work place

    3.4

    Harvester Supervisor, November 2023

  • Best thing

    Interactions with others
    The people I work with

    Worst thing

    Complexity of some jobs
    Cleaning

    8.5

    Harvester Waiter, August 2023

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  • Best thing

    tips
    most of the people i work with

    Worst thing

    pay
    drastic changes in hours each week
    no sick pay

    6.0

    Harvester Front of house, July 2023

  • Best thing

    The people I work with

    Worst thing

    The long hours

    8.6

    Harvester Chef, July 2023

  • Best thing

    Getting close with the team

    Worst thing

    The long hours for little pay, and pay doesn't increase representive to promotions and extra jobs included, head office slashes hours to lower cost at all times so you are constantly understaffed

    2.3

    Harvester Sous chef, July 2023

  • Best thing

    Being settled within my co workers

    Worst thing

    Being set up to fail with understaffing

    3.0

    Harvester Kitchen assistant, July 2023

  • Best thing

    Tips

    Worst thing

    The team always arguing

    3.6

    Harvester Waiter, May 2023

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  • Best thing

    Working with my team and guest satisfaction.

    Worst thing

    Understaffed and too busy sometimes

    6.4

    Harvester Shift supervisor, May 2023

  • Best thing

    Getting to know local people

    Worst thing

    Rude and annoying customers

    7.1

    Harvester Bar staff, May 2023

  • Best thing

    There are a few people who are nice and can work well with.

    Worst thing

    Management don’t know how to run things properly, one of the managers do the bare minimum to help and only think about himself.
    Customers can be really rude.
    On a busy night food always takes long so customers are impatient and takes away your chance of tip.
    One manager in particular can’t do their job properly, makes the shift feel like hell and drag on for ever and then moment a breather from all the stress, he will be on top of you asking you why, yet he sits most of the day.

    1.2

    Harvester Waiter, April 2023

  • Worst thing

    Some managers are not very nice

    1.6

    Harvester Waitress, April 2023

  • Best thing

    Working around great staff

    Worst thing

    Long hours which may exceed my shift times

    2.1

    Harvester Front of house staff, January 2023

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  • Best thing

    Tips are sometimes worth it, 50% off the food is helpful. Building connection with guests can be really nice. The discounts and benefits are decent too.

    Worst thing

    Management, hard to run on busy days with barely any staff, unfair days off and a lot of favouritism between certain staff and management.

    1.5

    Harvester Waitress, January 2023

  • Best thing

    - cash tips
    - you keep your own tips for your section
    - the staff

    Worst thing

    - no breaks
    - have to pay for your mistakes
    - unreliable hours
    - management don’t help

    4.6

    Harvester Waitress, December 2022

  • Best thing

    Easy menu
    Great team

    Worst thing

    Difficult when it becomes busy
    Closure of restaurant
    Tiredness
    Paid once a month

    6.2

    Harvester Chef, November 2022

  • Best thing

    A couple of the people

    Worst thing

    The hours, the pay, the treatment of staff is disgusting. Nobody works as a team

    1.5

    Harvester Line chef, October 2022

  • Best thing

    Staff team, customers, Job as a whole.

    9.2

    Harvester Front of house, September 2022

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  • Best thing

    Tips and the people

    Worst thing

    Stress, the people

    8.4

    Harvester Waiter, September 2022

  • Best thing

    Discount

    Worst thing

    Changing schedules at the last minute

    1.9

    Harvester Front of house, September 2022

  • Best thing

    Made some great friends

    Worst thing

    Get paid low hourly rate
    Really hard to take time off

    3.9

    Harvester Server, September 2022

  • Best thing

    The team, free/cheap food and the tips

    Worst thing

    Having to work longer hours, understaffed a lot, dealing with rude customers

    7.5

    Harvester Waitress, August 2022

  • Best thing

    tips

    Worst thing

    horrible management, no real breaks, do not get paid if your shift is cancelled, not paid for training, Cleaning out of hours unpaid, requesting holiday is a huge issue and is often denied, disrespectful general manager, terrible pay rate lower than most businesses, often do not get breaks on busy shifts but they're taken out of ur wage anyway, rude customers always right, allowed to be bullied and assaulted by customers all the time.

    1.4

    Harvester Waitress, August 2022

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  • Best thing

    Sometimes fun

    Worst thing

    Long shifts, lots of hours a week. Sometimes getting no breaks on a shift

    5.5

    Harvester Waitress, August 2022

  • Best thing

    The customers, tips, and food

    Worst thing

    Full on, don’t get breaks

    8.2

    Harvester Waiter, August 2022

  • Best thing

    Colleagues
    Managers are sometimes fun

    Worst thing

    Managers are patronising
    Never listen to what we have to say
    Can be rude

    4.9

    Harvester Employee, August 2022

  • Best thing

    We get tips which makes us feel like we did a job well done

    Worst thing

    The stress

    2.8

    Harvester Waitress, August 2022

  • Best thing

    Some are the staff are really great

    Worst thing

    Hours are rubbish and management are disrespectful and unorganised

    1.0

    Harvester Chef, July 2022

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  • Best thing

    Free salad to take home as we try to keep away the foods going to waste & 50% discount on hot meals in work for a break.

    Worst thing

    Didn’t get enough training so found it vv hard (learn as you go) & get treated unfairly due to age & we dont get tips.

    1.8

    Harvester Front of house, July 2022

  • Best thing

    The Tips
    Other staff members

    Worst thing

    The wage
    The hours
    The management
    The customers
    The lack of respect

    1.4

    Harvester Waiter, July 2022

  • Best thing

    Working with public

    Worst thing

    Shifts longer than 6 hours with no breaks

    3.4

    Harvester Front of house staff, May 2022

  • Best thing

    good tips, making new friends, meeting cool people

    Worst thing

    very high stress, physically and mentally exhausting, can be long hours

    7.0

    Harvester Employee, April 2022

  • Worst thing

    under appreciated and the management doesn’t understand that we need help

    1.5

    Harvester Front of house staff, February 2022

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  • Best thing

    The customers and usually nice and tips can be okay

    Worst thing

    Not nearly enough money for the work we do and are expected to to work 8 1/2 hours without a break most of the time and get told off for standing still for 5 minutes you only really get a break if you do a double shift which can sometimes be 12-13 hours

    1.4

    Harvester Front of house, February 2022

  • Best thing

    The team is great… everyone is really close

    Worst thing

    The stress when it’s busy

    6.1

    Harvester Front of house, February 2022

  • Best thing

    Staff are friendly and caring
    Good tips

    Worst thing

    Management can be stressed at times and take it out on staff

    5.5

    Harvester Employee, December 2021

  • Best thing

    The staff

    Worst thing

    No contract, and poor pay

    2.0

    Harvester Waitress, August 2021

  • Best thing

    The team I work with if I get the right ones
    And the customer if I get the right ones

    Worst thing

    Every thing on a bad day

    2.1

    Harvester Employee, August 2021

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  • Best thing

    Meeting new people and tips

    Worst thing

    Rude people

    2.3

    Harvester Waitress, July 2021

  • Best thing

    New customer

    Worst thing

    Last minute changes

    1.5

    Harvester Waitress, April 2021

  • Best thing

    Great atmosphere, great staff and management

    Worst thing

    If there is no business coming in then no hours

    8.9

    Harvester Waitress, February 2021

  • Best thing

    The team I work with and the choices I get to make and am supported by my manager.

    Worst thing

    The guests can be very difficult and rude

    9.5

    Harvester Shift supervisor, January 2021

  • Best thing

    Tips

    Worst thing

    Not enough hours,get told not to come in half hour before your shift

    2.8

    Harvester Waitress, December 2020

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  • Best thing

    Meeting new people and it’s never same everyday.

    Worst thing

    Disrespectful guests and unhelpful staff.

    6.4

    Harvester Team member, November 2020

  • Best thing

    Meeting new people

    Worst thing

    How busy it is

    8.4

    Harvester Waitress, November 2020

  • Best thing

    My work colleagues and some of our guests

    Worst thing

    Some of our guests and management taking us for granted

    3.2

    Harvester Waitress, June 2020

  • Best thing

    Interaction with the guests

    Worst thing

    Arrogant team and being unable to trust anyone I work with

    3.0

    Harvester General manager, May 2020

  • Best thing

    The customers

    Worst thing

    The shift patterns

    7.6

    Harvester Team member, March 2020