boulanger-pâtissier

gérant

crew member

café manager

baker

La Prep

Great place to work, staff is amazing and friendly, everyone gets a long both outside the kitchen and inside. Definitely the most enjoyable part of the job, staff were all like family. Small hospital so you know most of the customers  
(staff in the hospital) coming in and out. Only upsetting thing is the fact that it is in a hospital, which results in some odd or sad customers. A couple of extremely rude customers who you will always see since they too work there, like doctors or nurses. Customers flow in nicely, after a rush it’ll get pretty quiet for a while. Boss was extremely kind and friendly, treated us more like friends rather than employees! Easy going most days. Overall, loved working here, just needed a change in atmosphere.

La Prep is an upscale bistro-style quick-service restaurant specializing in freshly prepared innovative sandwiches, salads, baked goods and specialty coffees. We pride ourselves on the quality and freshness of our ingredients with a dazzling array of delicious menu items created in our kitchens daily. Our modern and sophisticated bistro environment provides the perfect atmosphere to relax and re-energize with friends, colleagues and business affiliates. 
	
Food selections extend from healthy low-calorie salads to the tastiest and delightfully sinful desserts on your cheat-days! Whatever your nutrition goals may be, you can be assured that La Prep has fresh and tasty breakfast and/or lunch selections for every appetite!

Worked as a barista part-time for around a year. My first day of training was during lunch rush hour and I was thrown on cash because they didn't have enough people - thought it was a one-time thing. The whole time I worked there it seemed to be understaffed for rush hour. I really liked the free lunch but would've preferred shifts to be better equipped staff-wise. I once got second-degree burns on the job and the owner made me work my entire shift and just told me to go run it under hot water. The management never made anyone feel appreciated and barely helped when needed. 

The boss of the franchise was very picky. He often wanted all the people in store to change. However, it was not for customer, but for saving money. If he felt there was not that much people coming, he would layoff some of the employers. He even asked the staff to weigh the meat before putting in the sandwiches. Actually, not all the sandwiches could be sold, so we tried to make the amount that wouldn't be wasted too much. But the boss wanted to have plenty display all-day, that caused more left-over next day. So, not every sandwich you buy in-store is daily fresh.

I worked at La Prep for 1.5 years both part time and full time. The team is great, as well as the management. The manager always treated me well and was very helpful at work. But remember, responsible and professional behavior will always be expected in return.
The position of Barista is not the easiest one, as you need to be able to react quickly and be ready for stressful situations.

I worked here part-time for 6 months before I quit. Should be paying at least $15-$16/H. They trained me at first but then held me back and stopped training me further, eventually prevented me from doing any kind of food handling/service at all. Very small kitchen space and questionable food handling and health/sanitation practices. Their online pay system is also terrible, they mainly only hire woman.

I worked at Women's college hospital location and it was the worst experience. DON'T WORK HERE. Manager has favourites and if those favoured don't like you then they can pretty much get you fired. The customers are nice, lots of doctors, and elderly people,but what happens behind the scenes is not. If you don't know everything in a week of working you will get fired.

A classical coffee restaurant focus on healthy and fresh theme
Pleased working environment and very nice customers
Staffs work in high efficiency with great customer services
Hardest part would be not enough staffs to provide the best services for customer, too narrow working hour for employee 
High quality customers

It gets busy during breakfast and lunch so everything should be ready before rush hour. It's exhausting because you have to do a lot of task but I enjoyed my stay since I worked with nice people. Plus I like meeting different kinds of customers so that what really what I love about this.

Was very slow paced and got bad hours (8 hours per week)
Only one employee booked in at a time and had a max of 5 hours
Was not trained properly to serve hot drinks 
Was left out of the loop and changes made to the company

Top Job Titles	Average salary
Boulanger-pâtissier 2 salaries reported	$18.50 per hour
Gérant 1 salary reported	$20.00 per hour
Crew member 1 salary reported	$18.25 per hour
Café manager 1 salary reported	$20.00 per hour
Baker 1 salary reported	$18.50 per hour

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