"Upper management relies on a concept involving dogs to entice young workers into accepting low wages and chairs being thrown at them by one of the owners true story (Former KC Employee Review)" WARNING: I will DEFINITELY be petty. A great place to work if you love dogs but hate being treated like an actual person. I started working at Bar K because I for starters love dogs but also because visited the location in KC frequently when I lived there. Little did I know this would be one of the worst job experiences I'd ever had. Owners that don't know how restaurants are run who get angry, yell, micromanage and one time even threw a chair at an employee. Dave and Leib are both constantly present for no reason other than to be annoying while asking everyone unnecessary questions about who knows what and give us unreasonable tasks, when everything started to go downhill they blamed everything on our poor sweet GM at the time, who was one of the only managers that seemed to genuinely care about everyone, and fired her. 2 of the other good ones quit when that happened, and they just lost their remaining 2 original managers. Most of the other managers all play favorites, talk to you rudely, give absolutely NO compassion for any issues anyone may be having outside of work, are usually just sitting around, breaking their own rules, and expect the absolute most when showing 0 appreciation for anything, not to even mention scaring everyone with that racoon makeup. And outside of that stuff they're kind of just poor managers in general. They let people leave without doing their side work, they never schedule properly, wether it's that we're understaffed, overstaffed, etc,. they're literally just unfindable when we need them, and they refuse to take any criticism because they're obviously always right. You could be literally homeless and it could be slow and raining and they'll still threaten you with a writeup if you aren't there and then you show up and you get cut within 20 minutes because it's so slow, not a hypothetical btw, that actually happened. Nothing ever gets communicated, the entire floor could call off and they won't tell you so you don't know until it's time for them to come in and they don't and you're just asking what?? lol they literally wanted me to clean up some dog vomit and then serve food to people. The people that stand up to them for treating everyone poorly are just punished for having a bad attitude while there's people in the back literally cussing you out and about to get into literal fights, and its just like huh? but okay. They try to talk to us like we're so damn easily replaced when the turnover rate is so bad most new people don't make it past 2 weeks and the others are just there for their other coworker friends. They'll tell you that you're the problem because of xyz when nothing is ever done right lol like everyone hates it here and you think we're all the problem???? I'm so sorry that some people don't stand up for themselves but after being treated like that for months on months on end it gets the the point of where enough is enough. I genuinely think my dog could run this restaurant just as well if not better because at least my dog is nice to people.
There was a dishwasher who got caught smoking literal weed in the bathroom but he didn't get fired until he like threatened to shoot someone up or something, I don't remember, the BOH stuff is CRAZY, but I got fired because I pulled out my dead weed vape that I hadn't used all day as we are closing out and an about to leave to talk about how I hated it with my friends and the supposed new "cool manager" Ryan lol like I literally said I hated it because I couldn't use it bc it was dead and didn't work anymore, and not naming any names bc I love everyone else that works there for the most part, pretty much everyone will buy their stuff from work during work but go off I guess, fire the whole restaurant lmfao we'll see how that turns out for ya. Oh and then Ryan went on to say how he also smokes but its unacceptable at work bc it's in the handbook like sis I used that handbook to scrape the ice off my car last winter, and you've been here like 2 weeks, not to mention you had no reason to believe that that dead vape was used at all. like I pulled it out of my pocket, didn't use it, at the end of my shift as I was leaving, had no reason to assume that I had had it the whole day or used it or anything. I don't know, I probably should have quit months ago, I honestly think it's kinda funny just how hypocritical they all are all the time and how little they value their employees. Overall I do think the concept is cool but the execution is very poor it's no wonder it's been slower lately. I am grateful for the experience cause I'll honestly probably be able to handle working at any other restaurant now and for meeting some of the best people I know, it's just too bad it also came with meeting some of the worst read more