gategroup
Commercial Aviation · Catering & Food Services
2 legal entitiesTruth index ADomain protected (DMARC)
119Open roles51 posted in 30 days+8 this week
$66kMedian advertised pay$50k – $92k−14% vs market
27 daysTime to fillmedian of 205 closed rolesmarket: 33 days
A 87/100Truth index
Facts
as of Nov 15, 2026gategroup is a food and hospitality company headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, and the largest airline caterer, providing inflight catering, onboard retail, airport lounges and related travel services under brands such as gategourmet, gateretail, gatesolutions, Servair, deSter and uqonic. The group employs over 46,000 people at more than 300 locations in over 68 countries and serves more than 680 million airline passengers a year. Its Workday board recruits cooks, chefs, CDL drivers, ramp agents, food and transportation supervisors, controllers, safety managers and unit general managers, with many openings at US and Canadian airport units and in Germany, Serbia and Spain.
It is hiring: 119 open roles, 51 of them posted in the last 30 days. Its stated pay is 14% below the market estimate for the same roles.
- Headquarters
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Founded
- 1992
- Employees
- 5000+estimated range
- Legal entities
- 2 in 2 countries
- Open roles
- 119 in 39 citiesAlion job postings
- Official records
- Wikidata Q686907
- Website
- gategroup.com
As of Nov 15, 2026, Alion lists 119 open roles at gategroup. gategroup is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. It was founded in 1992. The median pay stated in its open roles is $65k, across 44 postings that state pay.
Sources: company registers, GLEIF, Wikidata, the company's site, Alion job postingsReport a mistake
What the registers and the postings say about this employer.
Postings are real
Alion truth index: A
87/100
Ghost roles
re-checked against its careers site
0%
Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
Domain and mail securitygategroup.com · Nov 15, 2026
Spoofed mail (DMARC)
Spoofed mail is rejected
Good
Who may send its mail (SPF)
Other senders soft-fail (~all)
Good
HTTPS certificate
Valid certificate · Sectigo Limited
Good
HTTPS enforced (HSTS)
Enforced, ready for browser preload
Good
Security contact (security.txt)
No security.txt
Weak
Encrypted mail delivery (MTA-STS)
No MTA-STS policy
Weak
Signed DNS (DNSSEC)
Not signed
Weak
Certificate issuers (CAA)
Any authority may issue certificates
Weak
Full employer checkScam signs in adverts, mail records, visa registers, domain history
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices The domain: its DNS records, its site's headers and certificate.
Hiring
All open roles →Hiring at full speed: most open roles are fresh.
Industrial Engineering is the largest family, 20 of open roles.
51Posted in 30 days43% of open roles are fresh
0%Remote roles0 of 119
2Roles in AI2% of open roles
39Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
190 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
No posting offers visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 0.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
Alion signals0-100
Demand95
Pay54
Your chance52
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time−100%
Sep 28This week
Open roles a week: 131 then, 0 now
Are the postings real?
A
87 / 100gategroup scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 44 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 52% have gone stale and 2% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 27 days.
Ghost roles0%
Gone stale52%
Reposted2%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
What postings ask forlanguages named in open roles
Degree asked
High School Diploma 59%Bachelor's Degree 32%Associate's Degree 6%Master's Degree 3%
Experience asked: 3.5 years on average, in 65 postings. 79 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Contract type
Full-Time 117Part-Time 2
Visa sponsorship: none statedRelocation: none stated
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family
Pays 14% below the market estimate for the same roles.
$66kMedianmarket estimate $76k
$50k – $92kTypical rangeUSD a year
$666kHighest paying roleTransportation Supervisor
Pay by levelmiddle half of stated pay, median marked · dashed: market median $76k
$0$38k$75k$113k$150k
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year
Footprint
Hiring in 39 cities in 9 countries.
39Cities
9Countries
Schiller ParkBusiest site
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| Site | Type | Open roles | Hires most for | Engineering |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zurich Switzerland | Headquarters | 0 | ||
| Schiller Park United States | Plant / site | 12 | Industrial Engineering, HR, Hospitality | 0% |
| Honolulu United States | Regional office | 10 | Administrative, Hospitality, Field & Service | 0% |
| Chantilly United States | Plant / site | 8 | Field & Service, Industrial Engineering, Hospitality | 0% |
| Seattle United States | Regional office | 8 | Hospitality, Field & Service, Finance | 0% |
| Vancouver Canada | Plant / site | 8 | Field & Service, QA, Hospitality | 25% |
| Belgrade Serbia | Regional office | 7 | Finance, Support, Networking | 29% |
| Madrid Spain | Support & operations | 6 | Support, Data Science, Leadership | 33% |
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers
Peers
Compare →Ranked #7 by open roles among its 11 closest peers.
| # | Company | HQ | Open roles | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Compass Group USA | Charlotte, United States | 1,631 | 5000+ | |
| 2 | Starbucks | Seattle, United States | 713 | 5000+ | |
| 3 | Wingstop | Dallas, United States | 208 | 1001-5000 | |
| 4 | GCG Group | Plantation, United States | 163 | 1001-5000 | |
| 5 | SITA | Geneva, Switzerland | 152 | 1001-5000 | |
| 6 | McDonald's | Chicago, United States | 144 | 5000+ | |
| 7 | gategroup | Zurich, Switzerland | 119 | 5000+ | |
| 8 | ZUS Coffee | Subang Jaya, Malaysia | 55 |
Source: Alion's similar-companies engine (industry segments, technologies, headquarters country, size)
Tech stack
Full chapter →Technologies named in job postings at gategroup over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
18Technologies in use
30Postings analysed
66/100Stack modernity
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Full gategroup tech stack18 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site
Milestones
Oct 29
First role in Brazil Regional IT Application Manager LATAM
Oct 27
First role in Guadeloupe Contrôleur de Gestion Multisites Antilles-Guyane H/F
Oct 2026
Formerly Gate Gourmet Switzerland GmbH (gategourmet.com)
Sep 18
First role in Switzerland Group Financial Reporting Analyst
Jul 23
First role in France Responsable contrôle de gestion opérationnel H/F
Mar 30
First executive search Chef, Operations
Nov 10, 2025
First role in Singapore Regional IT Application Manager
Nov 10, 2025
First role in Hong Kong Regional IT Application Manager
Each milestone is dated by its source: registers, filings, the press
Newsroom
Sep 292026
Award · markets.businessinsider.com
Client-validated case study recognizes AI-enabled menu development platform that transforms gategroup's document-driven menu creation and frees ...
Sep 292026
Blog
gategroup has opened a new purpose-built gategourmet facility at Techo International Airport (KTI), marking an important step in the continued development of its operations in Ca…
Sep 182026
Award
Zurich, Friday, September 18, 2026 - Lufthansa has been named "World's Best First Class Onboard Dining" at the 2026 Skytrax World Airline Awards, underscoring the strength of its…
Aug 312026
News · pax-intl.com
Food was a central part of the event, giving attendees the opportunity to sample gategourmet's culinary concept currently served onboard and learn more about the work behind each…
Aug 262026
Blog
Delta Air Lines recently hosted media and content creators in Buenos Aires for a closer look at Delta Premium Select, showcasing how comfort, service and gastronomy come together…
Aug 182026
Blog
We are pleased to share an important step in our work to make gategroup a fairer and more equitable place to work: gategroup has become a signatory to the Women's Empowerment Pri…
Sources: the outlets named on each headline, each story once