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Hotel / Restaurants Accommodation And Food Service Activities Food And Beverage Service Activities 56.1 - Restaurants and mobile food service activities
140 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
7 December 2016
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Fast food chain McDonald's have announced that they will be creating 140 new jobs across two new sites in Liverpool. The restaurant in Church Street will create 65 new jobs, and the two storey restaurant in Great Homer Street will create 75 new vacancies. The Great Homer Street project is part of a new development which will house a number of national brands. The positions available will be a mix of full-time and part-time. It is expected that the new restaurants will open in Spring 2017.
Sources
7 December 2016: Liverpool Echo
Citation
Eurofound (2016), McDonald's, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 89406, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/89406.
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