Another fast-food boss sounds the alarm on US crime: McDonald's CEO echoes Starbucks' safety concerns – but doubles down on chain's commitment to Chicago
show far fewer gun violence incidents in the West Loop neighborhood, where McDonald's is headquartered, compared to other parts of the city.
Kempczinski pointed to the deep ties between Chicago and McDonald's, calling the city the company's"first city." Ray Kroc in nearby Des Plaines, Illinois, in 1955."Today in the Chicagoland area we operate 400 restaurants, and we're in virtually every neighborhood across the city," Kempczinski said. Thousands of employees work at its Chicago headquarters.
Still, Kempczinski said, it's more difficult"today for me to convince a promising McDonald's executive to relocate to Chicago from one of our other offices than it was just a few years ago. And if the Golden Arches were to leave, it'd be $2 billion that left the city overnight, Kempczinski said.
He pointed to the string of large companies, including Boeing and Caterpillar, that have announced plans to leave the Chicago area. "Everywhere I go I'm confronted by the same question these days: 'What's going on in Chicago?' While it may wound our civic pride to hear it, there's a general sense out there that our city is in crisis," Kempczinski said. Subscribe to push notifications
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