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Monday, February 17, 2025

McDonald's urged to add local content

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Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion Min­is­ter Car­olyn Seep­er­sad-Bachan and San Fer­nan­do May­or Dr Navi Mu­radali are mak­ing a call for lo­cal con­tent in the menus of the Mc­Don­ald's chain of restau­rants in T&T.At the of­fi­cial open­ing of its fourth out­let at Dum­fries Road, Gulf View, La Ro­maine, yes­ter­day, Mu­radali said just as lo­cal con­tent is re­flect­ed in the 100 peo­ple em­ployed at the new out­let, he hopes their sup­plies will soon dis­play lo­cal con­tent.

"Open­ing in the City of San Fer­nan­do is good for in­vest­ment. It is good for op­por­tu­ni­ties, and you men­tioned that 100 peo­ple from the La Ro­maine area have been em­ployed and it is very good to know that you have been us­ing lo­cal con­tent," Mu­radali told Mc Don­ald's mar­ket­ing man­ag­er, Trinidad, Jameela Mo­hammed-Ali. "I hope that your prod­ucts, as well, are of lo­cal con­tent in terms of some of the sup­plies. I hope that in due course, your sup­ply chain will al­so be from lo­cal con­tent. We need to sup­port the lo­cal man­u­fac­tur­ers and the lo­cal in­dus­try."

Mu­radali pre­sent­ed an ap­proved food premis­es cer­tifi­cate to Mo­hammed-Ali. Pub­lic health of­fi­cials from the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion, in­clud­ing Dr In­grid Poon King and John Ramkhelawan, toured the premis­es with the may­or and min­is­ter fol­low­ing the rib­bon-cut­ting cer­e­mo­ny.

Seep­er­sad-Bachan said she was will­ing to be­gin di­a­logue with Acros Do­ra­dos, op­er­a­tors of Mc­Don­ald's restau­rants in Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean, about in­te­grat­ing their for­eign prod­ucts with some lo­cal in­puts "so we can have an in­dige­nous Mc­Don­ald rather than one which bring all of its nap­kins and forks and oth­er in­puts from abroad."Seep­er­sad-Bachan, who is the MP for San Fer­nan­do West, sug­gest­ed that Mc­Don­ald's part­ner with lo­cal bak­eries for items they have on their menu, in­clud­ing cas­sa­va bread.

"I would like to see, for ex­am­ple, Mc­Don­ald in­form­ing lo­cal bak­eries of the stan­dards they re­quire, so our peo­ple can bake bread and oth­er prod­ucts they have on their menu. I feel we can com­bine glob­al­i­sa­tion by in­te­grat­ing the for­eign com­pa­nies with lo­cal in­puts so we can have an in­dige­nous Mc­Don­ald in Trinidad."

Mo­hammed-Ali said in the last two years, Ar­cos Do­ra­dos has em­ployed hun­dreds of peo­ple from T&T, pro­vid­ing jobs with good ben­e­fits, an at­trac­tive pay pack­age and op­por­tu­ni­ties for train­ing and ad­vance­ment. In La Ro­maine alone, she said, they have pro­vid­ed 100 fresh em­ploy­ment op­por­tu­ni­ties.Mc­Don­ald's, which is cel­e­brat­ing its sec­ond an­niver­sary since re-es­tab­lish­ing busi­ness in Trinidad in Sep­tem­ber 2011, is sched­uled to open a fifth restau­rant at Gulf City Mall.


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