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Nov 12, 2009 11:07 am US/Eastern
McDonalds Looking For Employees In Gitmo
Officers Used To Offer McDonalds To Prisoners For Information
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No clowning around, Ronald McDonald is looking to fill a managerial position at a Mickey D's in Cuba. (File)
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No clowning around Ronald McDonald is looking to fill a managerial position at a Mickey D's in Cuba, reports CBS station WFOR-TV.
The ad for an assistant manager for a McDonalds franchise in Guantánamo recently popped up on the McVirgina.com website. In addition to salary, the chosen candidate will have half of their rent paid and tax-free status if they remain a year-round resident.
But there is a downside.
The chosen candidate has to live and work on the 45-square-mile base, according to CBS4 news partners The Miami Herald. As for the restaurant itself, customers include sailors and their families stationed on the base, hundreds of base workers and two hundred plus terror suspects and their guards.
According to McDonalds, the independently owned and operated restaurant has been on the Naval base since 1986. Supplies are shipped in by barge from Jacksonville.
When the base first received the war on terror captives, military personnel would sometimes use the restaurant's burgers and fries as bribes during interrogations or give as rewards for acts of cooperation. Now those detainees who have been cleared by the courts and kept in a separate compound can get takeout orders through the guards.
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