Sure but they’ll make you work 70 hours a week. And €770/week is loads to live on if you’re never really home.
Looking at indeed jobs would make you want emigrate. Maybe because I am in Waterford City, but the jobs on it are diabolical.
1. It’s Press Up, their cunts.
2. Ireland’s hospitality scene isn’t in a good state, particularly in comparison to the major hospitality cities like London, Paris, Barcelona, New York, etc. While everyone else has seen sharp increases in hourly pay, additions to service charge and company’s are implementing new benefits that helps attract more staff Ireland doesn’t seem to have understood that just yet. Ireland will always have the same issue though, independent owner-operators will produce much higher quality than shitebag groups like Press Up who don’t know what quality is to even try to attain it.
Which Press Up place is that in Ballsbridge? I suspect it’s not exactly cheap to eat at.
McDonalds pay better no cheffing qualifications required
One of the best tips I can give anyone in hospitality is to get out as fast as you can. It’s an exploitative and dead end industry.
“nOBodY wANts To WoRk…”
No wonder their food is shite (apart from the wings in Elephant & Castle).
The only Pressup venue around Ballsbridge is Angelinas and the Head Chef would be on around 55k.
Pressup don’t advertise on Indeed very often, certainly not for senior or management positions. This ad isn’t active or searchable, probably an error or some mischief, 11 per hour is what they pay Kitchen Porters.
It doesn’t look like that job is up anymore ( or it was never up). Anyway, Press Up are a shower of cunts.
I went for a job interview sailed through it and was offered €380 for 47hrs a week. The interviewer got irate when I told him I wouldn’t be leaving my €675 for 39hrs a week position to take the job then told me he will replace me with a polish chef. Two months later they went out of business
I don’t necessarily want to defend them but this has to be an error.
I was a Chef for 27 years before the pandemic, now you are expected to work with a smaller team if any for miserable wages, with zero social distancing in kitchens, not doing it anymore.
You know what’s weird about the “labor shortage” at the moment? About 3 months I went around applying for jobs. Must have applied for about 20 places, but I only heard back from like 5 of them. What’s crazy is most of the places I applied to still have help wanted signs up.
Like how can you say you can’t find workers when you aren’t even reaching out to the people applying to work for you?
I saw one job post the other day that had a Masters in Marketing as a requirement. Pay was €33k
Honestly I feel like we’re going to look back in a few decades and cringe at how we treated service workers. There’s going to be a phase out of this type of work eventually. How the horse was retired when the car took over.
Donegal had a job listing. Qualified solicitor needed with minimum 4 years experience.
27k
Press up are a massive organisation too with dozens of restaurants and bars including the likes of wow burger. But there must be a mistake or something as no chef commie included would work for that.
Press up own half of Dublin as well, bags of money!
Finding out press up owned Tower records was depressing. Thought I had been avoiding them for the past few years.
No you don’t understand the government has been “hammering” the hospitality industry, so they have to charge bare bones wages to survive. They can’t be held accountable for this/s.
if you can’t afford to pay your workers a living wage you shouldn’t be in business
Hoteliers need to cop the fuck on sooner or later and raise wages. Saw Nandos offering 13 EUR per hour for front-of-house staff in Dublin which is class. I know a lot of five-star hotels where you’d be earning less than that, putting up with more hassle, and having less craic.
It’s best to think is the press up as a property ownership group not a chain of restaurants
And in Ballsbridge ? One of the most expensive areas in Dublin. Head Chef should be around the 18-20 Euro an hour mark
Former chef here
Our skills are not valued anymore, with food service companies providing full menus that can just be heated up/deepfried and plated, who would pay a head chef the money they deserve for their skills, experience and knowledge?
Also, the majority of people working as chefs were foreign nationals (who unfortunately would have taken jobs for that money) and have returned home to either get paid properly or shift careers completely.
As a man with 25+ years hospitality experience, the welfare are expecting me to take deli counter jobs for minimum wage.
It’s beyond an insult.
I work at Dunnes stocking shelves (I am not even a fucking cashier) and I get paid better than this. That is actually hilarious and kind of sad
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Sure but they’ll make you work 70 hours a week. And €770/week is loads to live on if you’re never really home.
Looking at indeed jobs would make you want emigrate. Maybe because I am in Waterford City, but the jobs on it are diabolical.
1. It’s Press Up, their cunts.
2. Ireland’s hospitality scene isn’t in a good state, particularly in comparison to the major hospitality cities like London, Paris, Barcelona, New York, etc. While everyone else has seen sharp increases in hourly pay, additions to service charge and company’s are implementing new benefits that helps attract more staff Ireland doesn’t seem to have understood that just yet. Ireland will always have the same issue though, independent owner-operators will produce much higher quality than shitebag groups like Press Up who don’t know what quality is to even try to attain it.
Which Press Up place is that in Ballsbridge? I suspect it’s not exactly cheap to eat at.
McDonalds pay better no cheffing qualifications required
One of the best tips I can give anyone in hospitality is to get out as fast as you can. It’s an exploitative and dead end industry.
“nOBodY wANts To WoRk…”
No wonder their food is shite (apart from the wings in Elephant & Castle).
The only Pressup venue around Ballsbridge is Angelinas and the Head Chef would be on around 55k.
Pressup don’t advertise on Indeed very often, certainly not for senior or management positions. This ad isn’t active or searchable, probably an error or some mischief, 11 per hour is what they pay Kitchen Porters.
It doesn’t look like that job is up anymore ( or it was never up). Anyway, Press Up are a shower of cunts.
I went for a job interview sailed through it and was offered €380 for 47hrs a week. The interviewer got irate when I told him I wouldn’t be leaving my €675 for 39hrs a week position to take the job then told me he will replace me with a polish chef. Two months later they went out of business
I don’t necessarily want to defend them but this has to be an error.
I was a Chef for 27 years before the pandemic, now you are expected to work with a smaller team if any for miserable wages, with zero social distancing in kitchens, not doing it anymore.
You know what’s weird about the “labor shortage” at the moment? About 3 months I went around applying for jobs. Must have applied for about 20 places, but I only heard back from like 5 of them. What’s crazy is most of the places I applied to still have help wanted signs up.
Like how can you say you can’t find workers when you aren’t even reaching out to the people applying to work for you?
I saw one job post the other day that had a Masters in Marketing as a requirement. Pay was €33k
Honestly I feel like we’re going to look back in a few decades and cringe at how we treated service workers. There’s going to be a phase out of this type of work eventually. How the horse was retired when the car took over.
Donegal had a job listing. Qualified solicitor needed with minimum 4 years experience.
27k
Press up are a massive organisation too with dozens of restaurants and bars including the likes of wow burger. But there must be a mistake or something as no chef commie included would work for that.
Press up own half of Dublin as well, bags of money!
Finding out press up owned Tower records was depressing. Thought I had been avoiding them for the past few years.
No you don’t understand the government has been “hammering” the hospitality industry, so they have to charge bare bones wages to survive. They can’t be held accountable for this/s.
if you can’t afford to pay your workers a living wage you shouldn’t be in business
Hoteliers need to cop the fuck on sooner or later and raise wages. Saw Nandos offering 13 EUR per hour for front-of-house staff in Dublin which is class. I know a lot of five-star hotels where you’d be earning less than that, putting up with more hassle, and having less craic.
It’s best to think is the press up as a property ownership group not a chain of restaurants
And in Ballsbridge ? One of the most expensive areas in Dublin. Head Chef should be around the 18-20 Euro an hour mark
Former chef here
Our skills are not valued anymore, with food service companies providing full menus that can just be heated up/deepfried and plated, who would pay a head chef the money they deserve for their skills, experience and knowledge?
Also, the majority of people working as chefs were foreign nationals (who unfortunately would have taken jobs for that money) and have returned home to either get paid properly or shift careers completely.
As a man with 25+ years hospitality experience, the welfare are expecting me to take deli counter jobs for minimum wage.
It’s beyond an insult.
I work at Dunnes stocking shelves (I am not even a fucking cashier) and I get paid better than this. That is actually hilarious and kind of sad