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The kitchen only wants to hire people with experience or graduates of culinary or related programs. Those without kitchen experience will have a very difficult time. Applicants are advised to think carefully; they do not want to spend too much time training newcomers.
The workplace is a sheet-metal building located by a hillside and a lake, making it cold in winter and hot in summer. The shoe cabinets and lockers are all rusty, and the wooden table used for placing meal containers has long since rotted and fallen apart. These areas are separated from the restaurant by only a cloth curtain, so anyone with bad intentions could enter at any time and take things.
When submitting documents upon reporting for work, the HR staff simply left them lying around carelessly, showing little regard for employees’ personal information. It is also unknown whether labor and health insurance are provided.
There are many types of dishes, and the amount of preparation required is large. Weekdays are spent preparing ingredients, but despite preparing such large quantities, they do not accurately assess dish sales volumes, so some ingredients are left for a long time.
Meals are provided, but usually you can only eat after working continuously for more than five hours. In winter, the wind blows directly in from outside the cloth curtain, making the cold piercing.
In addition, the kitchen does not welcome people who are simply looking for a job to make a living. If you do not tell them what skills you want to learn, they may ask you to leave because of it.
The colleagues are quite nice.
There is no overtime pay. The insured salary bracket for labor insurance is set at the minimum wage, and the employee-paid portion is not deducted accurately.
Although the Labor Standards Act states that there is no probationary period, this company has one with no fixed duration. (They only convert you to a full-time employee when they feel you are okay; if they are short-staffed, it may be less than a month, but when they are not short-staffed, it may also last two months.) During the probationary period, employees are paid hourly and only receive the statutory minimum hourly wage. When things are not busy, they will ask you to go home early rather than let you work the full eight hours, so your probationary-period pay may be very low (if you start work at 11 a.m., you may be sent home as early as 3 p.m.).
The entire company prohibits taking leave on holidays (even part-time workers are not allowed to), but they may not necessarily tell you this during the interview, because they first want to trick you into coming to work and explain it later. Eventually, if they see that you keep requesting holidays off, they will tell you not to come in the next day.
The company does not provide labor and health insurance for employees during the probationary period, and even after you become a full-time employee, the company may still forget to enroll you in labor and health insurance.