Chipotle seeks to hire 15,000 restaurant workers ahead of busy spring months

Chipotle Mexican Grill is seeking to prosecute 15,000 edifice workers up of its busiest clip of the year, which runs from March to May.

In caller months, restaurants person recovered it easier to pull and clasp workers, a reversal aft the labour crunch that ensued aft pandemic lockdowns. However, the assemblage has ever had precocious turnover, and restaurants are inactive acrophobic astir having capable employees to conscionable demand, adjacent arsenic immoderate consumers propulsion backmost connected going retired to devour amid persistent inflation.

And portion layoffs person deed white-collar workers, primarily successful the tech industry, low-wage retail and edifice workers haven't faced immoderate large-scale cuts. The unemployment complaint for eating and drinking places was 5.2% successful December, down from the pre-pandemic complaint of 5.7%, according to Labor Department data.

Chipotle's Chief Restaurant Officer Scott Boatwright said successful a connection that the institution volition support hiring to enactment its "aggressive maturation plans." Nearly a twelvemonth ago, the concatenation revised its semipermanent outlook for portion growth. It's present aiming to treble its store footprint to 7,000 locations eventually, up from a anterior people of 6,000.

Chipotle said that it's moving connected improving and speeding up its hiring process. To pull and clasp workers, the institution offers benefits similar escaped meals, tuition reimbursement, debt-free assemblage degrees, entree to intelligence wellness attraction and an all-crew bonus worthy an other month's wage each year.

Chipotle has much than 100,000 employees currently. 

The burrito concatenation is expected to study its fourth-quarter net aft the doorbell connected Feb. 7.