Lion’s Choice Donates Restaurant to Urban League to Establish Job Training

A former Lion’s Choice restaurant location will soon become a training center for job-seekers hoping to work in the restaurant industry.

The Lion’s Choice restaurant chain has donated one of its locations in north St. Louis County to the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis (St. Louis, MO), which will use the facility as a job training center.

The idea was “born of a recognition that people in our community need opportunity, and the restaurants need people,” said Bob Bonney, CEO of the Missouri Restaurant Association, which is partnering in the project.

“Our workforce development staff has been working with business owners to fill employment opportunities and noted that there are over 1,000 restaurant job openings in the St. Louis area every day,” Michael McMillan, President and CEO of the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, said in a statement.

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