Topaz, Ireland’s leading convenience and fuel retailer and McDonald’s have announced details of a combined investment of €6m in a new state of the art service station at the Cashel interchange on the Dublin/Cork Motorway.
The new services area, the first one to serve motorists on the busy M8, will create up to 100 jobs. The site, which will be located at Junction 8, will open for business at the end of May. The new station area is being built on a 1.75 acre site, and the Topaz shop will be 250m2. Upstairs will have seating for 42 people, and there will be parking for up to 40 cars.
Topaz, which is a fully Irish owned and managed company, has a network of over 300 sites nationwide and has plans to build up to 15 service stations close to the motorway network.
Eddie O’Brien, the Chief Executive of Topaz said the company’s aim was to provide customers with the best services and facilities available.
‘We now have an excellent motorway network but there is a shortage of service sites and we want to address that. Currently there is no site servicing the M8 and we see this service site as being a vital rest and refuelling stop for motorists travelling between Dublin and Cork. This will be a five star service area and facilities will include wi-fi internet access, a hot food buffet and café, children’s play area, toilets and showers’, O’Brien said.
McDonald’s has agreed a 25 year deal with Topaz to provide food services on the site. The partnership with Topaz represents McDonald’s first location on the new motorway network and will bring the number of McDonald’s in Ireland up to 78.
John Atherton, Managing Director of McDonald’s said the new site represented an opportunity to provide quality food at affordable prices on one of the busiest routes in the country. ‘McDonald’s will create up to 60 new jobs at the site which will open 24/7 from opening and will serve a wide range of products from breakfast, through old favourites such as the Big Mac to new items such as wraps and coffee’.
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