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title: "Restaurant Industry Added 27,300 Jobs in March"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/60ad0409-6fd0-422e-884d-59422de6d606
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/restaurant-industry-added-27300-jobs-in-march-2709642
category: "Restaurants"
industry: "Restaurants"
published: 2019-04-05T18:13:01.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T01:44:48.746Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/11365d66a594a863840d7fd2172365f77725.jpg
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# Restaurant Industry Added 27,300 Jobs in March

**TL;DR:** The restaurant industry added 27,300 jobs in March, with food and drinking establishments employing 12.2 million people. The overall economy added 196,000 jobs in March.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2019-04-05. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/restaurant-industry-added-27300-jobs-in-march-2709642).*

## Story

New data from the U.S. Department of Labor showed that the restaurant industry added 27,300 jobs in March, according to a Restaurant Business report .

The data also found that food and drinking establishments employed 12.2 million people in March, and the overall economy added 196,000 jobs in March, according to the article.

The news comes as various fast food brands continue to get creative with their hiring practices. Taco Bell recently announced it will host more than 600 hiring parties later this month in an effort to find candidates. Last month, McDonald’s announced a partnership with augmented writing platform Textio to use the company’s AI technology to improve its hiring practices.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- McDonald's (company)
- restaurant industry (topic)
- Taco Bell (company)
- job growth (topic)
- U.S. Department of Labor (regulator)
- hiring practices (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/restaurant-industry-added-27300-jobs-in-march-2709642). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/60ad0409-6fd0-422e-884d-59422de6d606).