Five men. Five basic values.
However, the company’s executive officials and employees reveal that one of these values is rising above the rest.
On its website, Five Guys describes the integrity as “honest”, says “what it means” and they do “what you promise.” With this the same morals carried out by the fast food chain that is based in Virginia, its views on diversity.
Irene Roberts knows it is better than most of them and not only because she holds the position of senior senior players officers. This is also because, as a mixed person looks white, I heard a lot of comments that may not have been made in front of her if her racist background was more clear.
Thinking about that experience, Roberts said Newsweek This is exactly the reason why five men are a workplace where employees expect to do the right thing, even when people do not search.
She said: “You live these values all the time, regardless of your presence in your presence or what people think about you.” “There is a place for everyone [at Five Guys] As long as you believe in our system and respect your co -workers. “
This year, five players received four stars Newsweekranking The greatest workplaces in America 2025.
The chain of restaurants, which includes more than 1900 sites, also appeared all over the world The greatest workplaces in America for diversity 2025and The greatest workplaces in America for women 2025and The greatest workplaces in America for homosexuals 2025and The greatest workplaces in America for Gen Z 2025 and The greatest workplaces in America for black Americans 2025. All six classifications were published in cooperation with the Plant-A Insights Group.
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While the federal government targets the efforts of diversity, shares and integration (Dei), corporate initiatives to enhance fairness and belonging have become among the most controversial decisions that the company can make. However, five men realize that its commitment to welcoming employees from all aspects of life is more about strengthening the current workforce more than anything else.
“We are the product of our industry,” said Molly Catallano, chief marketing official in five men. Newsweek. “We are a diverse labor force and so on … it is not difficult to be a diverse company.”
“In any initiative, she looks at who is there and says:” How do we benefit from the best of everyone? “
As the second largest employer in the country, the restaurant industry and food service, which provides 15.7 million jobs or 10 percent of the total American workforce, is more diverse than the total American workforce.
According to April data summary published by the National Association for Restaurants51 percent of restaurant and food service employees are minorities, compared to 41 percent in the total workforce, and 55 percent of women’s restaurant and food services employees, compared to 48 percent of the total workforce.
“Regardless of any noise in the system about diversity, fairness and inclusion, the restaurant industry is varied,” said EFHA). Newsweek. MHFA, a non -profit organization dedicated to the development of DEI through the restaurant industry, is a subsidiary of the National Corporation for the Educational Association for Restaurants.
Kosusi Kar said that the dilapidated in the diversity of industry is a “great power.”
“Five men do this very well and promote it as one of the factors, if you can, about what made them successful,” she said.
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Racial and gender diversity of a year is more clear than the diversity of life.
While only 13 percent of US employees are under the age of 25, this age group represents 40 percent of the restaurant industry, according to the National Restaurants Association. This trend continues to employees under the age of 35, which constitutes only 35 percent of the total workforce, but 60 percent of the workforce in restaurants and food services.
Cosbie Car said that one of the things MHFA has learned about the workforce in Gen Z is its appreciation for consistent training and leadership development.
She said: “If the young professionals come to the restaurant industry, we want the relationship with their closest manager to support their long -term growth and support their career.”
She said: “We find that the relationship of the medium manager is very important, and when it is not synchronous with its development and growth in the industry, there are many other options that can stay away from the industry to go to the party’s economy or work for themselves.” “We want a factor for the commitment that keeps them in the industry.”
So far, five players appear to have this adhesion. Roberts, for example, was with the company for 15 years. Stephen Steel, Vice President of Culture in Five Men, was nearly 18 years ago. Catalano comes in 20 years.
“It is burgers and fried potatoes,” Roberts laughed. “But there are 12,000 people that we want to take care of. We want to make sure that each of these people has a good experience and get what they want. They want a part -time job? Wonderful, we need it. If you see this job as a starting stone to the next opportunity, we can meet them wherever they are.”
Will Martin, who is now a specialist in the experience of candidates, is a living example and breathing this commitment to professional development.
Martin told Newsweek.
Martin started as general manager of the Five Guys restaurant before moving to the company’s training department, where he was traveling around the world and following his “personal passion” by teaching other employees how to make burgers and fried potatoes. But he then suffered from an injury and could no longer train other members of the five players.
“I didn’t really know what I would do,” he said. “I have never been in the fiercest of my dreams that I would work in a job in the office of traditional companies. This is not how it grew up.”
However, five men continued after Martin hit her with Steel, the former Burger Flebber was brought to the Culture Department.
“Will’s position was not present when I came to human resources,” said Roberts. “He has achieved incredible success. He has a lot of experience, but he also continued to learn.”
Martin is not the only one.
She said: “There is a profession for people who want to learn our system, who believe in our food and experience and work hard.” “This does not require an advanced degree to start five players, and if you are ready and able to do this task, you can apply as much as you care about. There are now people at the level of the Executive Vice President despite the start of general managers and assistant managers.”
All this according to the design. Five Guys has invested significantly in the professional development of its employees in all fields. The company offers payment for grades, trains its emerging leaders, encourages internal and encourages cross -training so that its employees can spend time explore other departments in five players. Roberts is especially proud of the company’s guidance program.
She said: “For a long time, we are very good in teaching people with french fries and potatoes, but not necessarily on how to manage employees, expectations, performance reviews and all this type of things, and this is very important.”
For Steele, this dedication to the construction of employees is going along with the commitment of five players to integrity.
“There was a saying that no one is above the garbage. This was because everyone was in these roles, whether it started as a crew member, or touched on floors, cleaning in the kitchen, or doing dishes or all these good things,” Newsweek.
He said that the idea that every employee is very important to the company as much as the next, and that every employee is responsible for the success of five players, very similar to the oral burgers that its restaurants make every day.
“When you make perfect french fries and potatoes, there is all this different layer and there is all these different ingredients,” Steel said. “But just like our employees, no one employee is more important than the other, just as there is no more important element than the other.”
