McDonald’s announced this Thursday that it is going to reopen some of its restaurants in kyiv and areas of western Ukraine, a country where it closed all of its restaurants in February its establishments as a result of the Russian invasion.
The company, which did not offer specific dates, said that “in the coming months” it will begin to work with suppliers to obtain the necessary products and to prepare the restaurants to receive diners again.
“After extensive consultations and discussions with Ukrainian officials, suppliers and security specialists, and considering the request of our employees to return to work, we have decided to institute a phased plan to reopen some restaurants in kyiv and western Ukraine, where other businesses have safely reopened,” said Paul Pomroy, Vice President Senior International Markets, in a statement.
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McDonald’s has continued to pay salaries
For now it It is unknown how many restaurants will reopen out of the more than one hundred that McDonald’s had in Ukraine before the war.
Since the outbreak of the conflict, the multinational has continued to pay wages of more than 10.000 employees in the country while studying the possibilities of reopening, Pomroy recalled.
As a result of the war, the company decided to close its restaurants in Russia and, later, completely abandon that country, in which it had been operating for three decades.
In May, McDonald’s announced the sale of its entire business in the country to the businessman and partner of the Alexandr Govor franchise, which reopened the chain’s establishments under the no Named for Vkusno and Tochka (Tasty and period).
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