sushi chef

chef manager

production manager

partner

night supervisor

Sushi-Gourmet

I started in a store with 3 other people. It was fine, easy, and fun. Then they offered me a opportunity to become a manager in another store and work alone. I thought to myself: "why not?". Biggest mistake. I was then reallocated to an awful kiosk, dirty from head to toe and expected to clean and turn it into a great store. 
They expect SO MUCH of just on person on a 8,90 per hour salary. Let give you an example: I was expected to prepare all the vegetables for making sushi (washing, peeling, cutting), making £300 - 400 of sushi everyday (sometimes the target was higher)in the order THEY want you to do, make order for food on excel, cleaning literally every corner in the store. AND they want you take responsibility for everything, even for people that cover you on your days off and dont clean properly. They will say its your duty to make sure its clean. 
Remember, the kiosk i went to was completely dirty and messy. Despite that i was doing my best, being a part time sushi chef and part time cleaner. The management is completely random, some of them actually care about work and about their people, some just want to make your life as bad as they can.
Terrible work/life balance as you are expected to reply to texts on your days off and after you finish your shifts.
When you're hired they talk about how much opportunity the company can give you, and how you can be creative. Terrible opportunity as you're required to be a super human and do a thousand things at the same time and they always say you are not quick enough. Why dont they just hire robots? would be easier and cheaper. 
About being creative, forget about it. If you do something such as display the item in a slightly different way or put the sauce on the bottom of the box instead of on top they will cut your wings right away.
If you want to work 2-3 days its probably an ideal job, but if they tell you to work by yourself RUN AWAY!

Area manager is very bad in london area, they will say anything thats good in the interview just to get you interested, without telling the bad things, 
- No overtime pay if they demand you to work overtime. 
- If the sale is not meet, they will reduce your hour, sometimes even take you off the schedule
- Rota change easily, you can be call to come to work when you off, if someone doesn't showed for their rota.
- Area manager never listen to complains, specially london area, he always said its not my job, so what is your job? 
- if your colleague do not show, his/her work will be added to your work load also without overtime pay.
Its going to be long if I put here all....


What is the best part of working at the company?
Being able to work alone, The hours are suitable.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Having to stop and keep taking pictures of everything you do.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It is fairly quiet within store, however it is a supermarket so be prepared for screaming children and know where everything is with in the supermarket, you get asked numerous times a day

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Busy, but managable. You start early and finish early, so long as the daily criteria is met, then there should be no problems. Also make sure your deliveries are reported to you by supermarket staff. Especially frozen items

A real lack of honesty and transparency from management. I was hired part time in Ashford but when I got the job I found out there weren’t enough hours at that branch and I had to travel to the other branches to make up the hours, the closed one is 30 minutes away and I have to take the train. When I asked what would happen if I was no longer needed in those other branches I was basically told if they can’t give me the hours where I lived I would have to settle for less hours than I’m contracted. Colleagues were lovely but so clearly overworked (almost all branches are severely understaffed) and taken advantage of, it’s so sad to see. So many more red flags but anyways, wouldn’t recommend.

I worked here for 2 years, its worth trying it and so far i enjoy it. Its can be hard at some times but every job can be difficult to handle so you need to be ready, with time it get's easy. Good hours, (wish it could be longer shifts), but i can leave early and if im running out of time my managers will always give extra time which leaves me stress free. You get free lunch here, work to your speed, and just make people happy with sushi. Simple as that, iam not lazy person so for me this job is easy. I think everyone who is motivated enough can do it because you get free training at this job and if you have problems you will always have managers who helps more than you could expect them to. 


Unfortunately they don't promise you exact hours (this should have been a red flag) work is put on rota in an App which changes comstantly.. sometimes leaving weeks without working and ending up on rota for only two or three days in a month. The colleagues, although lovely, barely speak English despite being told at interview that there is a strict English only in the workplace rule, they only speak English when speaking directly to an english speaker. You do get to learn new skills and it's a wonderful job for someone who doesn't need much extra income but I couldn't support myself whilst working here.

You’re thrown into the deep end very quickly, after only a short amount of training. Given large responsibilities which can be very daunting and when you ask for help no proper explanations are given. There’s no support from area managers & the chef/s training you don’t explain or train you enough. You end up working hours over what you should just to finish the cooking/cleaning up - which you won’t get paid for! Overall, the lack of support/training/communication and time given to complete tasks (which are 2 person jobs not 1 like I was left to do!) are not worth the stress or hassle this job is worth! There’s MUCH better jobs out there! 

I was working only on weekends for 8 hours with meals during the day.
After month, manager without any notifications changed the all trainee chef's hours to 5 a day, and said "My budget was cut so everyone need to work less. Sorry."
Sometimes they can leave you with a lot of mess and tasks which you need to do (as clean, mop, take all the rubbish away, wash the dishes and etc.) and cut cucumbers or carrot for another day, but you have only an hour for all that tasks, so you stay for an extra time for free. 
Now I need to find another work who will not change your hours when on induction was said that "minimum shift is 8 hours"

Fantastic place to work. Shifts start and finish early, which enable you to continue studying, work and have a social life! 

The training is delivered very well by experienced chefs, and you continue learning while working to do most difficult tasks all in reasonable time and without stress.

The management team is very understanding for flexibility and the rota can be managed and moved around.

Amazing place to get skills in communication, teamwork and many more!

I do recommend for anyone looking for a different style of job in hospitality, I do recommend!

What on earth somebody running a company like this ! It’s an absolute modern slavery in Sushi Gourmet UK, they just take the advantage of the people’s personal life situations, take the most out of the employee’s situations and play around with them, they really don’t care about employee’es basic rights, the only thing they are focus on is make money for the up line top people in the company  and don’t care about the minimum

Top Job Titles	Average salary
Sushi chef 10 salaries reported	£13.62 per hour
Chef manager 2 salaries reported	£22,490 per year
Production manager 4 salaries reported	£34,250 per year
Partner 1 salary reported	£45,000 per year
Night supervisor 1 salary reported	£13.00 per hour

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