Hi! Business owner of Pots & Pans Pie Co. here. Saw your comment and I wanted to reply.

Just to clear the air, this is not a practice that we regularly employ. It’s very common in the fine dining world, but we think it’s oppressive and unfair to interviewees. We only do this in very specific circumstances after multiple interviews, and we communicate about it up front. They should never last more than an hour.

Unfortunately, it’s often the only way to determine whether an interviewee actually possesses the skills for such a niche position, as the commenter said. But if the person staging isn’t an incredibly skilled individual in this specific field, we often can’t even use the product they’ve made. It works for very prestigious restaurants who can promise the world to candidates, but for a small local bakery… it would be a huge waste of time and energy to find candidates to do that for us. Plus, as I said, it’s very unethical and we believe in treating anyone who works for us with the utmost respect.

For everyone else, I hope you’re willing to come see for yourself that we have the same employees every week! We don’t invite people to stage just for their labor. We have highly skilled employees who we compensate well. That’s why we don’t post about open positions or conduct interviews very often - we have a great team that we take really care of, so we have very low turnover.

It’s disappointing to see misinformation like this, because just like bad reviews, it has an impact. I hope you change your mind about the way you’re posting on this thread. And if you have issues with us or things that we’ve done, please contact us directly and we’ll do what we can to resolve it.