(12 May 2025)
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Delaware, Ohio – 12 May 2025
1. Wide of McDonald’s Michael Gonda, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Lieutenant Governor Jim Tressel and McDonald’s Joe Erlinger positng for photo
2. Tight of Sec. Chavez-DeRemer and Lt. Gov. Tressel speaking
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Lori Chavez-DeRemer, United States Secretary of Labor:
"Investments like the ones we’re celebrating today add momentum to our job market and help create a more capable workforce to fill those new roles. At the Department of Labor, it is my mission to up-skill and re-skill our workers so we can achieve the president’s goal of one million active apprentices, offering a hand up to so many hardworking men and women. I know that McDonald’s shares this vision, not only with myself, but with the president of the United States."
4. Medium of Chavez-DeRemer with McDonald’s Gonda and Erlinger
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Erlinger, President of McDonald’s USA:
"This summer, along with our franchisees, McDonald’s will be hiring up to 375,000 people across all 50 states at our nearly 14,000 McDonald’s restaurants."
6. Medium of Sec. Chavez-DeRemer speaking with McDonald’s employees
7. Tight of McDonald’s logo
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Lori Chavez-DeRemer, United States Secretary of Labor:
"By expanding their workforce, the corporation will be driving investment and setting the standard for industry growth. Whether as a launch pad for a different career or as a ladder for internal achievement, McDonald’s continues to be the cornerstone of American ingenuity."
9. Medium of Lt. Gov. Tressel and Sec. Chavez-DeRemer speaking
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Lt. Gov. Jim Tressel, (R) Ohio:
"There are great opportunities as long as you associate with the right kind of people and our good folks here at McDonald’s are the right kind of people."
11. Tight of Lt. Gov. Tressel and Sec. Chavez-DeRemer speaking
STORYLINE:
McDonald’s said Monday it plans to hire up to 375,000 U.S. restaurant employees this summer, its biggest hiring push in years.
The Chicago burger giant said the beefed-up job openings are partly due to a U.S. expansion. The company, which has more than 13,500 restaurants in the U.S., plans to open 900 more by 2027.
U.S. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer joined McDonald’s U.S. President Joe Erlinger at a McDonald’s restaurant near Columbus, Ohio, for the hiring announcement.
“McDonald’s is sparking a ripple effect of prosperity for our workers, communities and the economy,” DeRemer said. “By expanding their workforce, the corporation will be driving investment and setting the standard for industry growth, whether as a launch pad for a different career or as a ladder for internal achievements.”
McDonald’s said its last big summer hiring spree came in 2020, when it announced plans to add 260,000 workers. At the time, the company was reopening restaurants that were closed in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Its decision to staff up for this summer signals optimism that U.S. restaurant traffic will improve as the year unfolds.
In the January-March period, McDonald’s U.S. same-store sales — or sales at locations open at least a year — slumped 3.6%. That was the biggest U.S. decline McDonald’s has seen since the pandemic shuttered stores, restaurants, schools and other public spaces in 2020.
McDonald’s said lower- and middle-income consumers, worried about inflation and the economic outlook, cut back on fast food during the January-March period.
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