Super-popular fast food chain hiring 375,000 employees this summer
McDonald’s has announced a plan to hire 375,000 employees.
The plan is one of the fast-food chain’s largest hiring pushes in years, reports CNBC.
The hiring, which will take place over the summer, will be across McDonald’s company-owned and franchised locations, according to a company spokesperson.
The announcement about the hiring comes on the heels of unexpectedly slow traffic at the fast food chain.
The burger giant’s same-store sales, or sales at locations open at least a year, fell 1% globally in the January-March period. The trouble, reports the Associated Press, was particularly acute in the U.S., where same-store sales slumped 3.6%. That was the biggest U.S. decline McDonald’s has seen since 2020, when the pandemic shuttered stores and restaurants and other public spaces nationwide.
CNBC reports McDonald’s also has a goal to open 900 new restaurants in the U.S. by 2027.