Harry Rashid in Wood Green

For the latest episode of my community podcast, my team decided to take over and put me through my paces. I answered all sorts of questions about my childhood, my career, my home life, and my hobbies. It was a lot of fun, enjoy!

Meet my team member Nazrul. Nazrul has a very special landmark to celebrate here at McDonalds —  25 years in the job! A lot has changed in that time from our menu to the technology in our restaurants, and we discuss it in this episode, recorded from my restaurant in Wood Green.

Meet my amazing team member Claudine — she has just completed the HR Level 5 apprenticeship here at McDonald's with a distinction! She managed this while juggling life as a mum and working in our busy Wood Green restaurant. I caught up with Claudine in this episode.

This week, I join to of my fantastic McDonald's team members, Sinem and Merve, to talk training. Sinem has just successfully completed her level 5 HR apprenticeship, and Merve is doing it currently. Providing quality training opportunities like this is very important to me, and the foundation of our business. Happily, the team are getting a lot out of it.

Pleased to let you know that I'm ramping up my podcasts again - and in the first episode since the pandemic, I catch up with my apprentice Charlie about how he's finding life at McDonalds.

How is the Wood Green economy doing and what can we do to really help areas like our High Road thrive? In this episode, I'm joined by Councillor Gideon Bull who looks after economic regeneration at Haringey Council to discuss this and find out about what's planned for the future.

Here at McDonald's we invest heavily in training up our people. In Episode 5, I'm pleased to be joined by one of my apprentices - Charlie! We catch up on life at McDonald's, what he's learning and his ambitions for the months and years ahead!

BIDs are spreading up and down the country. We have one in Wood Green. But what exactly is a BID and what’s the point of one? I’m joined by Paul Collins who runs Future Wood Green BID, which celebrates its 1st birthday this month! We discuss this and more...

What is the future of our local high streets in Wood Green and Haringey? What work is being done to help our local businesses? And how can we help them thrive? I'm joined by Roger Ward CBE, local businessman and Chair of Haringey Business Alliance, as we discuss this and more!

What more can we do to create jobs and opportunities for people in urban areas like Wood Green? It's based in the borough of Haringey which has the 6th highest unemployment rate in the Capital. Is the Government doing enough to help and what role can business play? Join me as I discuss this and talk about what McDonald's is doing to help local people.

Join me, Harry Rashid, as I propose one measure that has potential to completely re-energise our high streets and pay for itself - cutting business rates for medium and larger business, as well as small ones.