This summer, McDonald’s said it will hire 375,000 employees across the United States.
The plan marks one of the fast-food chain’s largest hiring pushes in years, Today reported.
McDonald’s hopes to open 900 new restaurants in the U.S. by 2027 and plans to serve more customers during summer months.
Specifically, fast-food chain has over 38,000 locations in over 100 countries — and is aiming for 50,000 by 2027.
The hiring will be across McDonald’s company-owned and franchised locations, according to a company spokesperson, Today said.
The hiring comes after McDonald’s recently reported its worst quarterly sales for the U.S. since the height of the pandemic in 2020, NBC News reported.
The reason for the decline was that “people are just visiting less,” adding that traffic among middle-income diners fell by “nearly double digits” alongside an ongoing drop-off among low-income ones, McDonald’s executives told investors.
More people appear to be skipping breakfast entirely to cut back on spending, or eating breakfast at home.
