Shrewsbury McDonalds Staff win jobs at Olympics

Four fast food workers from Shrewsbury could have the chance to serve World and Olympic record 100m sprinter Usain Bolt after being chosen to work at the London 2012 Olympics.

The four McDonalds workers, Jill Wright, 23, Mike Woods, 22, Tom Mutch, 21, and Joanna Douglas, 25, were chosen from more than 87,000 company hopefuls from across the country to work in what has been dubbed 'the world's biggest McDonalds'.

They will swap the relatively mundane surroundings of their Battlefield Road restaurant to work at one of four sites on the Olympic Park – where there will be two open for the public, one for the media and one for the athletes.

And after Jamaican sensation Bolt powered his way to victory at Beijing on a diet of chicken nuggets, each of the Shrewsbury workers could have a realistic chance of serving him his next order.

Ralph Parker, franchisee at the Battlefield Road restaurant, said: "It's a fantastic opportunity for them and they'll be telling their grandchildren for years to come.

"Usain Bolt had chicken nuggets every day at the last Olympics so if any of them are working in the athlete restaurant then they could well be rubbing shoulders with him."