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Hotel / Restaurants Accommodation And Food Service Activities Food And Beverage Service Activities 56.10 - Restaurants and mobile food service activities
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
28 March 2022
Employment effect (start)
28 March 2022
Foreseen end date
Description
Premier Restaurants, the operator of McDonald's fast-food restaurants, is to create 300 new jobs in different Lithuanian regions. The company has launched a new recruitment campaign in Lithuania which aims at highlighting the importance of diversity, equal rights and opportunities in the workplace. According to the management, out of the 300 new jobs to be created, the company will offer 35 completely new positions (e.g., positions that will deal with equality issues for workers or working conditions for people with special needs). It is mainly looking for restaurante employees and personnel selection specialists.
Currently, Premier Restaurants employs 954 employees in Lithuania.
Premier Restaurants is operated by the Maltese company Premier Capital, which is operating McDonalds fast-food restaurants in the Baltic states, Greece, Romania and Malta.
Eurofound (2022), Premier Restaurants, Business expansion in Lithuania, factsheet number 106624, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/106624.
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