Frozen Food and Bad Management - FOH Team Member Tresco Island Employee Review

Moved to IOS, Tresco earlier in the year. It has all of the makings of a great life. Good work/life balance and a beautiful island. Unfortunately, it is just a really horrible place to work and be. Firstly, the the restaurant is a lie. All the food is frozen and imported (not even from Cornwall) and the customers have no idea they’re paying £28 for Knorr pasta and frozen crab. It felt disingenuous to talk to the customers about food. The seasonal staff are patronised and talked down to. The “permanent staff” have worked on the island for 1 to 5 years and are threatened by any new potential permanent staff. The island itself promotes and favours candidates for job roles based on time spent living on the island. Meaning a lot of the staff are promoted into roles without relevant experience, making the work atmosphere frosty, rude, unprofessional and badly managed. We would work “busy” lunch services which were massively and embarrassingly over staffed. 100 covers would require 10 FOH and at least 7 chefs minimum. I couldn’t believe that all of the produce from the island itself was viewed in a way that it was almost dirty. Luckily all the food fresh from the freezer was clean and plate ready. If you have worked in any good restaurants, you won’t be happy here.