Zizzi for me has been the worst work experience so far. Absolutely no help/support from head office when you have a trouble in the branch. My last two months in the company I was working literally every day, 70-95 hours per week because my GM and AM got fired, in same time head chef got fired - ( which I understand but first you need to have a replacements, especially in the busy branch like Brighton was ) . They pay really low, chefs starting on 7,20 max 7,50 £ per hour when all chain restaurants around us paid 2 £ more per hour as a standard. I didn't get paid any extras for that 2 months as well ( 23K salary ) even when they knew I was working for 3 managers. Running 25-28K restaurant ( 8-9K Saturday shift ) literally by myself with no even supervisors ( rotas, orders, stock counts + dealing with many problems what this branch at that time had ) don't even mention I didn't get any training ( I came from Jamie's/ Pizza Express and they said it's "same" when I started - no it's not ) My ex GM just gave me a "supervisor" book with nice pictures. I know Zizzi is nice place to eat, however the work conditions are unbelievable and I still can't believe company of this size can allow these things to happen. Btw: as a GM/AGM you need to pay for your staff food and drinks same as other team members, they will force you to work 55-60 hours as a standard, many GMs what I know work even more and everything what they care about are budgets and labour and customer's feedbacks. My last day I was threatened that I will not get paid if I will not come next day to open the restaurant because there was literally no one else to do it ( after one month without day off and 3 weeks in the row over 90 hours per week )... yep, I left with risk I'm not gonna get paid as I was so stressed and exhausted I couldn't even stand anymore. That's a Brighton "Zizziness" in real life!
