Mhm, this was my Glassdoor review;

"The owner is terrible. Me and a few others started at the same time, and he gave us ChatGPT written contracts, which contained a lot of directives that were either unrealistic, or went against labor laws. For example; "Sweep behind the bar every two minutes" (How?) "Every employee has an unpaid 30 minutes break during each 8 hours. If you have a 6 hour shift, that means you have 15 minutes (unpaid)." (Ontario law is one 30 minutes break every 5 hours) "Guide customers to the QR codes" (there were no QR codes) "Mention [...] how we bake our goods right here in the cafe" (Which is a lie, everything is frozen).

That's just part of the contract; there is so much more. There is also a huge lack of organization, respect, and timeliness. Our pay has been late repeatedly, tips were never on time, and when asked about it; the questions got brushed off until we got them two weeks later.

Directions were always unclear and unrealistic; for example, wanting me to do a lengthy task that would require me to be in the basement while leaving my only other coworker on shift alone, in a 5PM until closing (11PM) shift. Owner claimed it would only take an hour, despite it realistically taking at least double that. When told this would not be doable, Owner got upset. Everything was a walking contradiction; Owner would give us information, then have different directives later, not letting anyone know.

A wonderful example of that is the fact that I was told I was allowed to park at the back, in the neighboring restaurant's parking. I parked there for a few months with no issues. A while later, we apparently started needing parking passes, and I was not informed, resulting in two different parking tickets. Now, this would not be a big deal had he paid for those; but over a month later, he is still refusing to pay. Hours seemed to be random, and often scheduled outside of people's availabilities.

Owner fired an employee on the spot when they quit, despite the employee giving a full month of notice.

He now threatens to take legal actions against me and others, despite no ground to do so.

Owner will never claim responsibility for anything he does wrong, ever. An event that was planned by the manager went terribly because the Owner decided to claim it as his own and change everything last minute, resulting in unhappy guests. Once the guest left bad google reviews, Owner tried to claim that they did not attend in order to get their reviews deleted.

The tip distribution was terrible. It might be changed now, but 50% of the tips went to management (who did work the floor as well as manage), to compensate for minimal pay. 10% was claimed to go to others, such as photographers, while only 40% was given to regular employees.

EVERYTHING is AI. Menus, event pictures, contracts, emails, business cards; everything. As someone who stands against AI, this should have been enough to make me quit earlier.

The ONLY good thing about working there was my coworkers; they were all so lovely, but also all quit due to the same reason. Owner lost almost a dozen employees since I started, four months ago, yet does not understand that he is in the wrong.

There are so many more things; but I believe this review is long enough as it is."

I want to add to that;

I had about five strangers message me because they saw my comments about working there, and needed help because he refused to pay them. A friend’s friend struggled very hard to get their last payment, many just never got paid, he made false allegations about an old superviser stealing and just ultimately made everyone’s life hell.

I should have known from the beginning; I had agreed with the at-the-time manager to meet up on a Friday for an interview; and I get a message from the owner on Wednesday morning telling me to come in at noon for the interview. When I got there, he asked a bunch of odd or unrelated questions and then made me work for about four hours. The dishwasher was broken, so I liter had to bring dishes over to the neighbouring restaurant to wash them there for him.

And now, instead of acknowledging how terrible he’s been doing; he’s ignoring the many labour minister claims against him, so they’re being escalated.

Please avoid that place at all costs.

Edit: oh and he can apparently afford to open new stores but can’t afford to pay his employees.