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CHOPPED IS SET to create up to 120 jobs in six new outlets.
The healthy fast food chain has today announced a recruitment drive to fill up to 120 new positions across Dublin and Kildare.
The positions on offer, a mix of full and part-time roles, will service six new Chopped outlets opening in the next month. The chain is looking for store managers, supervisors, breakfast chefs and choppers.
Chopped initially announced that five new outlets would be opening, but later told Morning Ireland this number had been updated to six.
Aramark, which recently agreed to an exclusive five-year partnership with Chopped, will manage a new outlet at The Loop in Terminal One at Dublin Airport.
Chopped by Aramark will create 15 jobs with the opening of the new airport location on Monday, 24 October. The opening of this location will be the second Chopped outlet managed by Aramark.
Five other outlets will open over the next month in the Pavilions Shopping Centre in Swords, O’Connell Street, Talbot Street, Dundrum Shopping Centre and in the Whitewater Shopping Centre in Newbridge, Co Kildare. The new restaurants will join 13 existing Chopped outlets in Dublin.
‘Breakthrough year’
Andy Chen and Brian Lee founded the company, which makes salads and wraps, in 2012
Speaking at the announcement of the new outlets, Lee said: “2016 has been a real breakthrough year for Chopped. We had big ambitions coming into the year and it’s been amazing to see our company goals come to life and then some.
“Our vision and plan from the start was to have a Chopped in all the main shopping centres and on every high street and thoroughfare in Ireland.”
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Overpriced salad
Absolutely ridiculous prices!€8 something for a salad bowl!
Yet you’ll happily pay 6 for a pint.
That overpriced salad would keep you going longer than anything you’d get out of a fast food outlet
I don’t think anyone HAPPILY pays €6 for a pint.
@Neal not Neil: I wouldn’t happily pay 6€ for a pint !
But you’d enjoy a pint.
Had one the other day, was 6 euro. It’s a marketing and brand gimmick but sure at least it’s not another fast food restaurant.
Maybe if i was a rabbit it would
I wish the packaging was a bit more environmentally friendly. Big plastic bowl for one time use.
Jesus Christ, what is wrong with you people. No jobs, you’re giving out, 120 jobs, your giving out!!! Great news !!!!!
Congrats to all at Chopped, great to see healthier foods available as an option.
Was in the Fairview outlet, Good concept. I felt the freshness of some of the produce left a lot to be desired though.
Tried it in the new service station on the M3 was delicious a breath of fresh air compared to all the other unhealthy stodgy fast food on offer
I always walk by the fairview branch and dive straight in to Hillbillies for some fried chicken and gravy.
Great 110 low paid jobs !
@JJ: A level of pay appropriate for the role – do you think they should be given the wages of high skilled workers in a high skilled role?
@Rory Donegan: Low skilled but high social impact on there lives with the mad hours they have to work. Not everything is about how skilled you have to be, sometimes you give up part of your life for these roles. So have a bit of respect.
@OnTheOutside: I have plenty of respect for people on minimum wage – I did it myself for long enough. I had an issue with JJ’s naysayer tone in relation to these jobs – that’s all. When you talk about “Mad hours” – what are you referring to? They are generally day-time roles in each of these stores (Open at 8am – close at 6pm), with little to no difference to other retail jobs (or in fact high skilled roles). There are also limits to the max hours employees can work each week under Irish law, so not sure what point you’re trying to make. These are not sweatshops.
110 jobs in a glorified deli is hardly newsworthy ! Yes everyone should be paid a living wage !
Then don’t take the job jj.
I think they are great, I often get a couple of days out of their salads and its great to have a healthy option on O’Connell Street. I work near there and there really isn’t much choice but burgers and sandwiches.
No reference about whether they will be paying a living wage rather than the minimum wage.
That’s an important consideration.
If you don’t want the job, don’t apply
120 jobs to be filled by what nationalites i dare ask
Why would you ask that?
Good news for students/non nationals searching for work. I personally could not survive on minimum wage. Life should be about living, not mere survival.
Good on ya Bruce !
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