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Hotel / Restaurants Accommodation And Food Service Activities Food And Beverage Service Activities 56.29 - Other food service activities
1,500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
2 March 2023
Employment effect (start)
31 March 2022
Foreseen end date
31 December 2023
Description
US fast food restaurant chain McDonald's is planning to invest EUR 250mn in Spain in the coming years, basically with the final aim to open 125 restaurants in Spain until 2025 and create 6250 new Jobs. Specifically, the company announced last January its intention to open 30 new centres in Spain in 2023, with an estimated employment creation of 1500 new Jobs in the same year.
The Company has confirmed the importance of the Spanish market as key for the multinational. The idea is to reach 700 restaurants all along the country by 2025.
Eurofound (2023), McDonalds Spain, Business expansion in Spain, factsheet number 108612, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/108612.
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