System catering: McDonald’s, Burger King and Co vote tariff increase

The employees of McDonald’s, Burger King and Co. get significantly more money at the next payroll. The Federal Association of System Gastronomy (BDS) signed a collective agreement with the NGG union after a good one -day way of thinking, which was initially only signed with reservation in the morning hours of Wednesday, as both sides announced. According to NGG, it includes wage increases from 9.8 to 18.73 percent. The union had already agreed on Wednesday.

Five rounds of negotiations and numerous warning strikes had been preceded since last summer. NGG negotiator Mark Baumeister had given the agreement a step in the right direction from the low-wage area after a month-long hanging area. BDS general manager Markus Suchert spoke of a “fair and future-oriented collective agreement”, which “takes into account the needs of the employees and the current difficult economic challenges of employers and the entire industry”. He provides “for planning security for more than 120,000 employees and over 830 member companies”. These include McDonald’s, Burger King, Starbucks, Pizzaut, Autogrill or North Sea.

In the lowest three tariff groups, all of whom are currently receiving an hourly wage of 13.02 euros, the hourly wages – if the collective agreement really occur – will increase in three steps to 14.30 to 15 euros from October 1, 2026. The first step in the wage increases should apply retrospectively on March 1, 2025.