Five Guys Burgers and Fries will open a new store at 2 MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn tomorrow, Friday, May 13, and 30 of the 40 employees working as cashiers, burger cooks, fry cooks, prep cooks and custodial staff at the new location were hired from resumes and applications received by Five Guys at the Brooklyn Job Fair hosted by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz at Long Island University on April 13. The Virginia-based company hired an additional 20 employees from among the 500 applicants they met at the job fair; they have been placed at other locations.
“Five Guys makes a great burger-and believe me, I know burgers,” said Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. “But more importantly, they are bringing ‘jobs, jobs, jobs’ to Brooklyn, and their new location at MetroTech gives Downtown Brooklyn another delicious dining option. This kind of commitment to the local workforce is indeed ‘rare’-but Five Guys hiring 75 percent of its staff from the Brooklyn Job Fair? Now that’s what I call a job ‘well done!'”