The Job Market Is Heating Up for Fast-Food Workers
- Restaurants offer bonuses, vacation -- and more attention
- Wendy’s, Chipotle, Applebee’s indicate tightening job market
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Lisa Aragon just couldn’t get the headhunter to take no for an answer. Five times in a month, she turned down enticements, including higher pay and four weeks of paid vacation.
Aragon doesn’t work in Silicon Valley or on Wall Street. Far from it. She is a manager at a Wendy’s in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In 20 years, Aragon had never been pursued as aggressively as she had by the recruiter from the Pilot Flying J chain of truck stops, a major franchisee of fast-food restaurants.