M1 Services: Pret and KFC jobs available as Welcome Break near Sheffield announces opening date

David Walsh
By David Walsh

Business Editor

Published 8th Aug 2024, 08:37 BST
The first of 300 jobs at a new Welcome Break on the M1 near Sheffield are up for grabs.

The under-construction service station is advertising for a KFC manager and assistant manager, paying up to £35,000, and a Pret a Manger store manager, on £34,000. 

Pret also needs a kitchen leader, two shop leaders and a team member trainer.

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Training will start in September and the £40m development at Junction 33 will open in January 2025, the advert states.

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The framework for a large building is taking shape beside the Parkway and the M1 northbound at Junction 33. | national workd

KFC and Pret will join a drive-through Starbucks at the site, which now has a formal address of Orchard Road, Whiston, Rotherham, although it is closer to Brinsworth.

It will occupy two huge sites on either side of the motorway linked by an existing underpass. 

Related topics:JobsSheffieldKFCStarbucksService station

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