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Hotel / Restaurants Accommodation And Food Service Activities Food And Beverage Service Activities 56.1 - Restaurants and mobile food service activities
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
17 April 2008
Employment effect (start)
19 April 2008
Foreseen end date
19 May 2008
Description
Food Chain (Holdings) Limited, Maltese operators of the global food franchises Burger King, Pizza Hut, KFC and T.G.I. Friday’s, announced to be in the process of recruiting 200 new employees along with the 400 they already have. For this purpose, they organized a two-day recruitment initiative in one of their establishments. The vacancies are for a variety of different jobs including back-of-house and front-of-house crew members, delivery bikers, waiters and waitresses, chefs and bartenders. The need for more employees arose due to an increase in business over the previous months, mainly attributed to a rise in the number of tourists visiting Malta.
Eurofound (2008), Food Chain (Holdings) Limited, Business expansion in Malta, factsheet number 66580, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66580.
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