Skip working at the Grove location! - Guest Relations Expert/ Server Ritz-Carlton Employee Review

2.0
18 Sept 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You get the “Ritz-Carlton training”, whatever that is supposed to be. You are able to please the guest anyway possible, so as a server you don’t need managerial approval to fix anything that might go wrong. As long as you can explain the issue to them and it makes sense, they don’t question you. I can work a 15 table bar by myself, it was good experience and really took my multitasking to a new level. You do make good money on every transaction as there is 18% gratuity included on all checks, so any extra tip is a plus. The tips are taxed automatically for you, not all establishments do that for servers.

Cons

This particular location is just one of the worst. The restaurant used to be operated by a 3rd Party and when the pandemic happened , the hotel closed and after they were able to reopen they decided to make the restaurant and bar part of the hotel. The problem is that the management seemed to have never run any of these establishments before. As a woman who had plenty of experience in restaurant work, I was shocked at the lack of training and knowledge of how certain services should be given. I was also expected to tell my team what to do and I was never given a title change, no announcement was made nor was there a pay raise to my base hourly to indicate this. I was often run ragged trying to take care of my multiple tables and at the end of the day no one really tries to help. Also dealt with people stealing money out of the pooled tips, won’t do that ever again.

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5.0
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Pros

- Great pay - Fun environment - Free meals

Cons

- Lots of walking - Can get hot

1.0
15 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Hotel Benefits would convenient at times

Cons

Horrible to work at the Ritz Carlton Boston. I was terminated because someone decided to report me they I was nodding off briefly in the office. They first suspended me with a notice explaining my suspension and then they terminated me with a different notice with the summary of that notice not matching up with the suspension notice. Human Resources lied to me and told me that the reason they found out I nodded off was because they were reviewing footage for something and just happened to come across me on camera which does not add up to the two statements I received. Cafeteria food was terrible. You would think a five star hotel would cook better food. Sometimes the food was burnt and did not taste good at all!!!

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