Retail Business Award: ZACALE PTY LTD
Open to all retail businesses that sell commodities directly to consumers, the Retail Business Award is sponsored by Roderick Insurance Brokers in 2022.
The 2022 winner of the GBEA Retail Business Award is Zacale Pty Ltd.
Operating four restaurants in the Geelong market, Zacale Pty Ltd started its McDonald’s journey in 1997. Now the business owns and operates McDonald’s Corio, McDonald’s Corio Village, McDonald’s Geelong North and McDonald’s Geelong Central, as well as seven restaurants in other regions.
Zacale Pty Ltd employs 370 crew members and 33 managers across its four Geelong restaurants, making it one of the largest employers of young people in the region. As a collective, Zacale’s four Geelong restaurants has served in excess of 1.8 million customers over the last 12 months.
Taking great pride in employing many of the region’s young people, Zacale Pty Ltd provides locals staff members with a first job that helps them build and develop skills for life, whether that be with McDonald’s or elsewhere.
Zacale’s people are its biggest asset, and the McDonald’s vision statement reflects just that: ‘Developing leaders, one burger at a time.’
“Zacale Pty Ltd has provided excellence by recognising that these young business leaders of tomorrow are their biggest asset,” said the judges.
“Licencee Chris Carroll provides staff with 24/7 access to wellbeing specialists and volunteers his time to teach them self-defence and resilience-building life skills.”
