assistant general manager

co-manager

kitchen manager

assistant restaurant general manager

restaurant team leader

iQ Food Co.

Pros
-Depends on specific manager and location.
-Glad my former managers I had before are gone now
-Fun yet welcoming team members

Cons
-low pay and can be stressful if you do not take care of yourself. make sure you maintain a good physical and mental health working here
-Leadership work culture is messed up. Some GMs would even bribe you for false promotions and don't even deserve to be in a hospitality team leadership roles at all. They need to be seriously checked and re-evaluated for leadership performances highly by their own employee team's feedback. 
-Only cares about you as labour percentage and numbers, and not unique and valuable individuals that is apart of a team
-Low pay; hospitality management degree and years of hospitality and business experience does not help with promotion and career growth opportunities for this company.
-Poor general team management decisions. Condescending.
-Favouritism is real. Their leadership culture especially from certain managers need to seriously change or they will not survive in the industry for long.
-Benefits and wages do not meet Toronto's cost of living

Advice to Management
-Leadership communication
-Improve the leadership selections, management training and who deserves a promotion to a leadership position for this company.
-Team Member Feedback for General Manager and Leadership. Screening.
-For some reason, they stopped having team members providing constructive feedback surveys to leadership and company every month. Very concerning. No wonder this company is going downhill. Company does not listen to their team. 
-I hope it has gotten better since.

This job is okay, most of the coworkers I worked with were very fun and hardworking. I liked it at first but that changed. Would be a decent job if management  was different. The Manager doesn't treat all her coworkers equally or with respect. This location has lost a lot of people and continues to. Manager is disrespectful which caused a lot of mental stress and anxiety among team members every time they had a shift. Management  mostly nice to their favourite people. Employees sometimes  are forced to skip breaks. There’s not enough breaks given for people who work more than 9 hour shifts. They could learn to improve their ability to retain good talent. Shortens hours, always understaffed making it harder for those to work because not enough help. Glad I left. They dont appreciate their hardworking employees and accuse them of things that are not true. I couldn’t take the disrespect from my manager anymore. They need to learn to treat their employees better.

iQ will always be a home to me. They taught me so many things within the short period of time I was there.
The work/social culture is instantaneously immersive and will allow you to easily delve into the nooks and crannies of any restaurant - allowing anyone with pebbles worth of initiative to completely understand the in and outs of the well oiled, well-cogged machine that is iQ.
Between any of the locations you go to, the feeling is the same - bewilderment. Seriously, so much thought is put into the architectural foundations of these restaurants it's actually enough to go to the stores alone for the sheer appreciation of the physicality of iQ.

If you're looking for an entry-level job with the equally appropriate amount of pay then iQ is probably for you.

Overall I experienced a full career working for iQ. The guests, the staff, the corporate team, all allowed me to experience a lot, especially for someone with only a high school career. From working as a bus boy to managing a million dollar restaurant (within two years), I experienced what most don't get to experience in over a decade. There is absolutely opportunity for growth.

My advice to anyone who is considering employment @ iQ FOOD CO., is to ask yourself if you're willing to work for a company that is still developing. Continue to ask the important questions and do not cut yourself short on any opportunities, in and outside of the company.

I worked for this company for some time. At first I loved the it. The staff, the food etc. But now they have a hard time keeping staff. Every location is understaffed. Management is a joke and they even have hard time keeping GMs. Manage doesn't care about it's workers. They make you pay for food, don't get paid breaks, will accuse you of stealing food with no proof, will over or under schedule you without warning, expect you to work in multiple areas for little pay and little training, and if you're good at the job they will keep giving you more work but never a promotion or raise. The food quality has been going down whole prices go up. I suggest you stay away.

I’ve worked in the service industry for MANY years in different restaurants. From high end to sports bars. I can honestly say IQ is the best company I’ve worked for. Here you’re not a number, here people care. Obviously nothing is perfect, but if you’ve worked in other places you’ll appreciate working in a place where the values are real. 
Besides that, there’s a lot of growth opportunities within the company. 

I’ve heard the other locations operate and function normally so maybe it’s just the bay location but it was very stressful. We had employees come and go all the time so that should say enough

Everyone is very friendly, you gain interesting knowledge on Canadian food supply chain as well as about health and wellness. Great staff parties. Very good discount on food. I got my lunch there every day, amazing staff pricing, high quality and healthy, great taste.

Work is okay but severely understaffed because the management refuses to hire more people. Few hours given per shift. Management is not professional when dealing with internal problems.

At iQ you really meet your family! Everyone was extremely nice (co-workers, management, head office) You are also really just put out into the workplace independently which I loved about the place.

Top Job Titles	Average salary
Assistant general manager 3 salaries reported	$20.00 per hour
Co-manager 9 salaries reported	$18.00 per hour
Kitchen manager 3 salaries reported	$19.33 per hour
Assistant restaurant general manager 1 salary reported	$20.00 per hour
Restaurant team leader 6 salaries reported	$18.75 per hour

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