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I'm a General Manager for Pizza Hut. Help Me?
I have been in restaurant management since I was 16, I'm 22 now. I most recently was an Assistant Manager for Wendy's making about 35,000 a year, for my age thats not bad. Well I took an offer from Pizza Hut, as a General Manager, because I thought it would be a better opportunity. Well I only make $5,000 more a year, I've been in training for 2 weeks now and they have me scheduled 70+ hours a week and I have a commute. They have me working doubles (8am-1am the next morning) then coming back again at 8am. And I'm salary so I get paid nothing extra. I also have an hour commute each way. I feel burnt out after 2 weeks and I feel like my health is getting bad already. I want this position but they are working me to death and I'm not even in my store yet, and after gas and tolls I don't think I'm making much extra. I don't want to live at work. I'm young, I have a newlywed wife and a personal life, and I need a balance. I want the position but at what cost. My old job is willing to take me back any day. I would make a little less but I would work a 50 hour work week and still have time for my life. It would also give me time to return to college for a business degree in management which I want to do badly, but would never be able to with hours like that. So what should I do????
14 Answers
- Go with the flowLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
I would go back to your old job in a heart beat.
Call your old boss right now.
Tell him you are sorry - mean it.
Tell him you did not realize how good you had it as his company.
And tell him you will now work harder than you ever had before.
Nothing is more important that a family and a good quality of life.
That Pizza hut is using you - pure usage.
At pizza hut 70 hours a week = 10.98$ hour
At wendy's $13.46 / hour for 50 hours a week.
- .Lv 61 decade ago
I completely understand where you are coming from. My husband was a GM for Burger King and they worked him to death. closing one night, having off the next day, then having to go in early the following day...so your day off really isn't a day off, it's just enough time to rest until you have to go back to work. And you don't get two days off in a row. He was making 40,000 a year and quit because he too was working 60+ hours a week...i hardley got to see him at all. He had enough with BK so he quit and took another position as a GM with another fast food company....it isn't any better than BK was LOL...
The restaurant business is a tough business to be in. The hours stink!
If i were you, I would say bye to pizza hut and go back to Wendy's. Get that degree you want and spend more time with the family.
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- SteveLv 61 decade ago
At 70 hours a week you're likely paying your lowest level employees more than you're making. $40,000 by 70 hours a week (assuming two weeks vacation) = $11.43 an hour. That would break down awfully close to $7.50 an hour plus overtime.
If you don't mind 70 hour weeks for minimum wage then stay the course. Otherwise, try to make the switch to retail - there's no such thing as an 8am to 1am shift in retail.
- 1 decade ago
Joe, the easy answer would be to go back, but here's the problem: Your old job is going to look at you as not entirely reliable if you go back now (you left once and you seem to want to go to school, and not be entirely serious about working at Wendy's). My advise is to stick it out until you get your store (you might have more say in what your hours are, then) and work through your situation, THEN call your friends at Wendy's and tell them you would like to be a GM for them - that looks like a promotion on your resume, not a retreat.
Source(s): 11 years in restaurants. MBA - 6 years ago
Well at least when you at your own store, you can set your own schedule. It would also be easy if you're at a store that's only delivery and carryout. But if you're making 35000 at wendy as a Assistant manager, I would go back. Because it's only a 5000 difference! But good luck tho!
- 1 decade ago
I would talk to your manager at pizza hut and ask him/her if the job is always going to be this demanding. If so, I would go back to your old job. $5,000 is not that big of a pay increase for the amount of work you are doing and it is preventing you from going to school which is your way to a bigger better salary later.
