Best Food Logistics Employee Reviews

Hard work sometimes, other times it's easy. Don't expect to spend any time with family on your work days as 13h plus shifts and then expect you in next day with sometimes only 9hr rest period

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50/50 some good points some bad. Make your own mind up

HGV Class 1 Multi Drop Driver (Former Employee) - Manchester - 10 December 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?Staff and people in the place are good. Not so much the managersWhat is the most stressful part about working at the company?Worrying if you are going to be in trouble with management when you finish your shiftWhat is the work environment and culture like at the company?Staff are great. Managers are pantsWhat is a typical day like for you at the company?Hard long and used like an Essex girl on a Friday night

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Hard work but rewarding with great pay and benefits

HGV Class 2 Driver (Current Employee) - Banbury, Oxfordshire - 30 November 2023

Being part of the Tesco/Booker group, Best Food logistics employees have a wealth of benefits available from discounts on shopping, clothing, fast food outlets to flexible working and cheap share buy-ins. The pay is in the higher end of the scale and the facilities (inc subsidized canteen) are spot on. This is more than just a driving job - handballing pallets of fast food supplies is part of your day. However, it’s nothing too tiring if you are fairly fit, and you have plenty of time for your 6-7 drops per day. Loving the job so far.

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I'd rather go elsewhere

Class 2 Delivery Driver Multi Drop (Current Employee) - Oldham - 26 November 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?You are used as slave and given all the rubbish jobs and never same route you are running around like a headless chicken What is the most stressful part about working at the company?Waiting around start 6am get route at 12noon other drivers are finishing you'll be going out What is the work environment and culture like at the company?Rubbish absolutely rubbish you'll hate working for this company What is a typical day like for you at the company?Boring demoted rubbish feel hungry

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Fun

HGV Class 2 Driver (Former Employee) - Banbury, Oxfordshire - 30 October 2023

Work is hard hours long but great fun. Just take your time and it's easy well I thought it was can be hard and heavy but electric pump trucks help

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Based on 64 survey responses

What people like

Fair pay for job

Areas for improvement

Energising work tasks
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General feeling of work happiness

Hard work

HGV Class 2 Driver (Current Employee) - Banbury, Oxfordshire - 28 October 2023

Lots of hand ball but pay is Good. Management can be OK but not always. If your face fits then all will be good. Some drops have stairs, most don't.

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Great Transport Office staff

HGV Class 2 Driver (Former Employee) - Banbury, Oxfordshire - 26 September 2023

Been working there through agency for almost 2 years, it is quite physical work as you deliver to chain "restaurants", however reflected in pay. Was always treated very well there and they always try to help rather than make your life difficult. Would probably still be there if I didn't have to move. I was prioritising this job over easy Class 1 trunking purely because of Transport Office staff and the way I was treated.

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Good training structure and will train you up for what ever you need

Driver/trainer (Former Employee) - Hoddesdon - 6 August 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?Good team to work for.work can be hard but that's the nature of the jobWhat is the most stressful part about working at the company?Parking and getting the right delivery pointWhat is the work environment and culture like at the company?Very friendly and informative company to work forWhat is a typical day like for you at the company?Can be hard work.but also have easier days

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Run away!!

HGV Class 2 Driver (Former Employee) - Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire - 28 July 2023

Bad management, transport office not helpfull.You can forget about free time, most shops have kitchens upstairs or in the basement. The payment is not related to the work performed.

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Larbert

Shunter (Former Employee) - Larbert - 25 July 2023

Management are nothing but decent but larbert is a dumping ground for bullies and jobsworths who use friendships with the boss as a shield .Good workers get picked on and the daftys get away with murder

Pros

A few decent spuds in there

Cons

The pals acts

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Work instead of gym

Class 2 Driver (Former Employee) - Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire - 19 July 2023

To be fair, if you are a gym person, instead of paying membership to gyms just work here. Carrying the goods up and down stairs constantly, split the pallets, long hours (11-if your are lucky-,14), 26tonnes in central london, place the goods in to the fridges etc.The only but only good thing about the company is you get really good experience as you drive in central london.

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Office personel ok, too much work!

HGV Class 2 Driver (Former Employee) - Banbury - 18 July 2023

What is the best part of working at the company?They are offering training for electric PTWhat is the most stressful part about working at the company?London deliveries and heavy weight liftingWhat is the work environment and culture like at the company?The personel is lovely, but it's really hard work involvedWhat is a typical day like for you at the company?15 hours per day, London deliveries, stairs to climb up or down

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No appreciation

Warehouse Operative (Current Employee) - Banbury - 24 May 2023

If your a good picker expect to get more hassle from the managers but if your a bad picker you get a nice easy ride. No appreciation for the hard work you do and we'll training is no existent, literally throw you in the deep end. If you have extra minutes past your break time expect to be punished but if your not being monitored on headset which loaders and cleaners aren't then you can do what you like.

Pros

Some people is what makes the place OK

Cons

Working Sundays, management & no training

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Good first driving job

Driver (Current Employee) - St Albans - 27 April 2023

Good place to work. Shifts are long but worth it the pay is ok….Lorry’s are old and need updating but you have a drivers mate to help you with the delivery

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Good work place

HGV Driver CLASS 2 (Current Employee) - Hoddesdon - 27 April 2023

A good place to work at and also experience more skills and values. Some people working with you can be very helpful and others can really destroy your night shift with laziness and frustration. You only need to stay calm in other to safely comeback to the depot in peace. Just promise yourself not to go out with such people anymore, because staying focused on the road is my number one priority.

Pros

Free hot drinks on site for everyone

Cons

Sometimes your expected route is taken from you and given to favoured people at the work place, just because that person requested to take that route.

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Its Marmite

HGV Driver (Current Employee) - Banbury - 19 April 2023

As a driver you’ll either hate it or love it, delivering palletised fast food products. Be prepared to handball and stairs are involved in places, sack trucks and ept’s are provided. This is my second time employed here.

Pros

great pay, great colleagues

Cons

handball, vehicles

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Bad workplace

Picker (Former Employee) - Oldham - 12 April 2023

Only care about customers not the staff supervisor stand at the door at 4,30pm so u can’t leave till the job is done when u should finish at 4,30 bads

Pros

Good salary

Cons

Long hours

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Wouldn’t recommend

Night Loader (Current Employee) - Oldham - 12 April 2023

Not exactly what I’d consider a positive job, it’s hard, stressful and exhausting. The staff are alright at times but some of the management are hard to get along with and to communicate to. Not my best experience working somewhere. I’m looking for an out.

Pros

5 days off every three weeks

Cons

Long hours, painful and exhausting

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Stressful/Negative/Competitive Atmosphere

Warehouse Operative (Former Employee) - Royton - 24 March 2023

I have worked as a picker at the Best Food site in Royton for over 5 years, and I can tell you it is both one of the best and worst jobs I have ever had.On the positive side of things, you work with a great bunch of people in the warehousing side of things, and for the most part, there is a good sense of comradery between us. You get paid a good wage considering the work you do, and have an onsite canteen and coffee/drink machines which are good quality. However, this pales in comparison with the negative aspects of the job. Overtime is enforced & expected via flexitime, and extending beyond the expected 2 hour extension into sometimes 14 - 16 hour shifts in peak periods, and if this is not accepted as 'part of the job', your future with the company, your job, and or/your advancement is threatened.Hostile management who's inadequacy and ineptitude cause a fracture in the cohesiveness of the team and develop a very Us/Them mentality.A very selective/pick-and-choose scenario for advancement, in which some workers who have been with the company for 2-3 years+ have been stonewalled from advancement, whilst others who have been with the company for less than 6 months are given those same opportunities despite no record of reliability.Hazardous work environments are commonplace, especially in the frozen warehouse section.Any attempts to negotiate, to reason with, or to discuss anything that goes against management's agenda and viewpoints, is met with scorn, dismissal, abusive language and mockery.

Pros

Good money, good food facilities.

Cons

Consider this as a job only as a last resort. Abandon all hope ye who enter.

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You have to be very careful as management is very strict

HGV Class 2 Driver (Current Employee) - Banbury - 26 February 2023

Very stressful place very physicall job makes you very tired this job you won’t be able to do for long time sometimes you’ve to push the pallet with manual pomptruck and that’s very heavy and dangerous

Pros

Free lunch sometimes

Cons

Long hours

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Sometimes hard work

Driver Assistant (Former Employee) - Hoddesdon - 10 February 2023

Sometimes hard work and long hours. 4 on 3 off shift pattern. 48 hours per week which may include weekends but usually it is up to 40 hours a week. Overall not bad place to work.