The Price to Pay for a Good Dessert
Establishment: Papa Haydn
Location: SE Portland
Please do not work here and get your friends to stop supporting this place. It is owned by rich fuckers who make all their money taking advantage of their very talented BOH staff. Let’s name a couple reasons: they pay their trained and experienced bakers and chefs barely more than minimim wage offering no other incentives to work there. No discounts, no paid time off, no benefit option, nothing. They (probably) illegally have found ways to not pay people for their overtime. They remove certain shifts from the time sheet so if one is not paying close attention to his or her hours, will not get paid for these shifts. Once you start making too much money (and i’m talking still not much more than minimum) they "let you go". So rather than asking for a raise, you just hold your breath until you’re fired, knowing that every damn 50 cent raise is getting you that much closer. and they turn people against each other as they fight to keep a job that will any day be taken from them.
this place makes so much money. i’ve seen the sales. and they have no respect or gratefulness for those who make it possible for them. they have a reputation and i hope they’re awful treatment of people eventually will ruin it. I hope this place, after 30 years goes out of business and the owners are forced to find their own minimum wage jobs.
These folks have long enjoyed {at our expense} not such a rosy reputation. As long as industry folk continue to {need to} be employed by such scallywags….they’ll always get away with this crap. Papa Haydn, and their affiliates have a nasty history - to be sure. Seems to be much too common here in PDX.