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Hotel / Restaurants Accommodation And Food Service Activities Food And Beverage Service Activities 56.10 - Restaurants and mobile food service activities
2,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
26 July 2021
Employment effect (start)
3 August 2021
Foreseen end date
30 June 2022
Description
The Iberian division of the group Restaurant Brand International (RBI) announces that between 2021 and 2022 it will invest more than €60 million in Portugal, opening more than 60 Burger King's and Popeye's restaurants. This investment will create approximately 2,000 jobs: 1,000 until the end of 2021 and 1,000 in 2022.
RBI will enter Portugal for the first time with Popeyes brand, after the success registered in Spain – despite COVID-19 pandemic imposing strong limitations to the sector. For the new restaurant chain, the company will invest in an automatic ordering system and home delivery (through its own mobile app). Moreover, the venues will be designed to favour energy efficiency, in the name of sustainability.
The places where the restaurants will be established are not yet known.
Eurofound (2021), RBI Iberia, Business expansion in Portugal, factsheet number 105245, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/105245.
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