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Hotel / Restaurants Accommodation And Food Service Activities Food And Beverage Service Activities 56.10 - Restaurants And Mobile Food Service Activities
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
11 July 2024
Employment effect (start)
11 July 2024
Foreseen end date
31 January 2025
Description
The fast food Burger King, managed by the Restaurant Brands Iberia (RBI) will open 50 new restaurants in Portugal by 2025. This process will create 300 new jobs.
The company is looking for restaurant or shift manager, home delivery coordinator to distributors and operators, occupational safety and health technician, motorcycle distributors.
The RBI has already launched five outlets in 2024, creating 150 new jobs.
The brand does not intend "to be only in the big cities, in the big towns". There is a plan to invest in inland areas, in the north, south and islands.
Currently the Burger King employs over 4,500 workers in Portugal.
Eurofound (2024), Burger King Portugal, Business expansion in Portugal, factsheet number 201397, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/201397.
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