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19 March 2024

800 vacancies at Enoc, Salf Belhasa Group for F&B jobs in UAE, GCC

Burhan Al Hashemi, Managing Director, Enoc Retail, at the opening of Paavo’s Pizza on Palm Jumeirah.

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By Waheed Abbas

Nearly 800 jobs will come up at food and beverage brands in the UAE and other neighbouring countries.

Dubai-based fuel retailer Enoc will recruit over 480 employees for its pizza brand while Saif Belhasa Holding will recruit 300 people for its F&B units.

“We are expanding and doing franchise as well at the same time. So plans is to build eight more outlets in the UAE and franchise mainly in the GCC,” said Burhan Al Hashemi, Managing Director, Enoc Retail.

“We are searching for main location and looking at options in Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah.

"We are also looking at petrol stations and good locations in malls.”

The group aims to open 60 outlets of Paavo’s Pizza across the region in the next few years. The fuel retailer has opened six outlets of Paavo’s Pizza in fuel stations and the first standalone on Palm Jumeirah. It will open second standalone in Jumeirah Lake Towers in December.

Replying to a query about jobs, Al Hashemi said an average outlet needs at least eight staffers so there could more than 64 jobs coming up at Paavo’s Pizza in Dubai alone.

“We bring people who have experience of working in fast food industry and have worked for big international food chains.”

The UAE-based family conglomerate Saif Belhasa Holding, the franchise owner of the Chocolate Bar, is also looking to add five outlets of its American franchise in the UAE next year in addition to two in Saudi Arabia and few in Bahrain and Kuwait.

The company on average recruits 25 employees for each outlet in the UAE, hence, adding nearly 150 more for the UAE operations and around 150 more for the GCC operations as company expects more staff to be recruited for the Saudi and Kuwait operations.

The company employs 400 staff for all of its F&B brands and 250 for Chocolate Bar’s 10 branches including the latest in the Mall of Emirates.

“We expecting to have 150 more staff to join Chocolate Bar in the UAE.

"In Saudi Arabia, we have more than 50 in one outlet and 27 in Kuwait in each outlet. In Saudi, every outlet should have a separate station for the families. We are investing Dh25 million in the UAE and GCC,” said Belhasa.

Candidates can send their resume to info@cdlc.ae in order to apply for the jobs F&B units of the Saif Belhasa Holding.