Editing Nando's (section)

==History==
[[File:Flame-grilled PERi-PERi chicken.jpg|thumb|Flame-grilled peri peri chicken at Nando's]]
The restaurant was founded in 1987 in [[Rosettenville, Gauteng|Rosettenville]], Johannesburg by Portuguese-born Fernando Duarte and South African-born [[Robert Brozin]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The History of Nando's {{!}} Rate YOUR Nando's - The Nando's Review Website |url=https://www.rateyournandos.com/nandos-history |access-date=2024-09-26 |website=www.rateyournandos.com}}</ref> Upon visiting a [[Portuguese Mozambican]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Fick|first=David S.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EL0366oH3ckC&q=chickenland+portuguese+food&pg=PA110|title=Entrepreneurship in Africa: A Study of Successes|date=2002|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-56720-536-7|language=en}}</ref> takeaway named Chickenland and trying the chicken with peri peri, they bought the restaurant for about 80,000 [[South African rand|rand]] (equivalent to about £25,000 at the time).<ref name="DT Brown"/> They renamed the restaurant Nando's after Fernando's firstborn son.

By 1989, the restaurant had three outlets in Johannesburg and one in Portugal.<ref name="nandos_worldwide">{{cite web |url=http://www.nandos.com/nandos-worldwide |title=Nando's Worldwide |publisher=Nando's |access-date=20 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130413235142/http://www.nandos.com/nandos-worldwide |archive-date=13 April 2013 }}</ref><ref name="DT Brown">{{cite news|last=Brown|first=Mick|title=Nando's nation: the chicken that conquered Britain|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/restaurants/9902231/Nandos-nation-the-chicken-that-conquered-Britain.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/restaurants/9902231/Nandos-nation-the-chicken-that-conquered-Britain.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=11 July 2014|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=11 March 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Capricorn Ventures International acquired the chain in 1992.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bustle.com/p/who-founded-nandos-channel-5s-new-doc-is-lifting-the-lid-on-the-peri-peri-kingdom-9676079|title=There's Nothing Cheeky About These Nando's Facts, Including Its HUGE Fan Base Overseas|last=McCreesh|website=Bustle|date=5 July 2018 |language=en|access-date=3 May 2019|archive-date=3 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190503113950/https://www.bustle.com/p/who-founded-nandos-channel-5s-new-doc-is-lifting-the-lid-on-the-peri-peri-kingdom-9676079|url-status=live}}</ref> In that year, the first branch opened up in Ealing Common where once stood a branch of Midland Bank.

In 2010, ''[[Advertising Age]]'' magazine named Nando's one of the world's top 30 hottest marketing brands alongside [[Tata Nano]], [[MTN Group|MTN]] and [[Natura]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Marketing|url=http://adage.com/globalnews/article?article_id=144404|publisher=Nando's|access-date=16 September 2010|archive-date=19 June 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619061253/http://adage.com/globalnews/article?article_id=144404|url-status=live}}</ref> During the same year, the success of Nando's in the U.K. led ''[[The Guardian]]'' to write that Nando's was a modern restaurant brand that had "changed the face of British fast food."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Sawyer|first=Miranda|date=15 May 2010|title=How Nando's conquered Britain|language=en-GB|work=The Observer|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/may/16/nandos-fast-food-chipmunk-tinchy|access-date=30 May 2020|issn=0029-7712|archive-date=14 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714110531/http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/may/16/nandos-fast-food-chipmunk-tinchy|url-status=live}}</ref> Nando's 1,000th store worldwide opened in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rateyournandos.com/nandos-history|title=The History of Nando's {{!}} Rate YOUR Nando's - The Nando's Review Website|website=www.rateyournandos.com|access-date=20 March 2020|archive-date=20 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200320031343/https://www.rateyournandos.com/nandos-history|url-status=live}}</ref>

As of July 2014, the Nando's restaurant group was owned by South African businessman [[Dick Enthoven]] and his family, through the Luxembourg-domiciled company Yellowwoods.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nando's reclusive owner has placed a R2.4 billion 'bet' on its international future as it pours money into expansion|url=https://www.businessinsider.co.za/dick-enthoven-debt-for-equity-swap-in-nandos-2019-11|access-date=17 August 2021|website=BusinessInsider|archive-date=17 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210817194215/https://www.businessinsider.co.za/dick-enthoven-debt-for-equity-swap-in-nandos-2019-11|url-status=live}}</ref> Enthoven's son [[Robby Enthoven]], who took over running the restaurants in 1993, was responsible for expanding the Nando's chain in the United Kingdom.<ref name="Jersey" />

In 2018, American-based recruitment website [[Indeed]] named Nando's as the UK's sixth best private sector employer<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/22/apple-named-best-private-sector-employer-in-the-uk.html|title=Apple named best private sector employer in the UK|last=Taylor|first=Chloe|date=22 October 2018|work=CNBC|access-date=25 October 2018|archive-date=9 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109012738/https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/22/apple-named-best-private-sector-employer-in-the-uk.html|url-status=live}}</ref> based on millions of employee ratings and reviews.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://blog.indeed.co.uk/2018/10/22/top-rated-workplaces-private-sector/|title=Top-Rated Workplaces: Best in the Private Sector – Indeed Blog|date=22 October 2018|work=Indeed Blog|access-date=25 October 2018|language=en-GB|archive-date=27 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927121752/http://blog.indeed.co.uk/2018/10/22/top-rated-workplaces-private-sector/|url-status=live}}</ref>