Ta - Wednesdays, August 19, 1987 - North Shore News

ac means business

THE 75 McDONALD 'S restau.
rats a British Columbia employ
some 7,000 people directly in full
and part-time jobs.

Jndirectly, McDonald's business
aeross the provinee means
employment for hundreds more in
other businesses which supply
food, packaging and a wide variety
of other goods and services to the
restaurants.

Ron Marcoux, executive vice-
president of McDonald's Restau-
rants of Canada Limited, says
McDonald's restaurants in B.C.
spend more than $70 million a year
on goods and services.

More than 98 per cent of all
purchases are made in Canada,
and much of each B.C. purchasing
dollar goes to B.C. suppliers.

For instance, Golden West
Bakery of Annacis Island. New
Westminster, employs some 30
people to produce hamburger buns
for all McDonald's in B.C. and
English muffins for all
McDonald’s and for the retail
grocery market across Western
Canada.

The supplier list is extensive —
from Vanderpol's Eggs of Surrey
(eggs) and Dairyland Foods of
Burnaby (ice cream, milk and
cream), to the local Coca-Cola
bottlers across the province (soft
drinks), B.C. Sugar (sugar packs),
Nalley’s (pickles), Crown Forest

Industries tbaes) and Canterbury
Coffee (coffeen allot Vancouser,

And it extends across the coun-
try — to Caravelle Meats of
Spruce Grove, near bdmonton
CHG per cent pure-beef patties).
Camation of Carbury. Mianitedba

(potatoes for brereh tries). Nrin
strong Foods of #ritich Coluaibia
and)  Bashaw, Alberta) (cheese).
Cutty Foods of London, Ontaric
(chicken), Blue Water ef fo. ie
Quebeo (ish) and Best Foods of
Montreal (Mae saucer,

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