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Nando's
Nando's (; ) is a South African multinational fast casual chain that specialises in flame-grilled peri-peri style chicken. Founded in Johannesburg in 1987, Nando's operates over 1,200 outlets in 30 countries. Their logo (also seen as a sort of mascot) depicts the Rooster of Barcelos, one of Portugal's most common symbols. History The restaurant was founded in 1987 in Rosettenville, Johannesburg by Portuguese-born Fernando Duarte and South African-born Robert Brozin. Upon visiting a Portuguese-Mozambican takeaway named Chickenland and trying the chicken with peri peri, they bought the restaurant for about 80,000 rand (equivalent to about £25,000 at the time). They renamed the restaurant Nando's after Fernando's firstborn son. By 1989, the restaurant had three outlets in Johannesburg and one in Portugal. Capricorn Ventures International acquired the chain in 1992. In 1996 a former Nando's franchisee founded the Portuguese-Mozambican style grilled-chicken restaurant G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Brozin
Robert Brozin (17 December 1959) is a South African entrepreneur, businessman and best known as the co-founder of Nando's international restaurant chain. Early life He was born in Middelburg, Eastern Transvaal, South Africa. His father was Max Brozin, a Jewish accountant and his mother, Vera Sheila Collis. He attended school at Middelburg Primary and then finished his schooling at King David High School, in Linksfield, Johannesburg. After high school, he completed his compulsory two-year military service with the South African Defence Force. He then attended the University of the Witwatersrand and obtained a Bachelor of Commerce in 1984. He then joined Price Waterhouse for two years and unsuccessfully attempted to take his Chartered Accountant articles. He left Price Waterhouse and joined his father's business at Teltron, which was the agency in South Africa for Sanyo Electronics. He became the company's marketing manager. He remained there for three years before becoming a ful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robby Enthoven
Robert Adrian Graham Enthoven is a South African/Dutch businessman, managing director of the casual dining chicken chain, Nando's. Robert Adrian Graham Enthoven has South African/Dutch nationality. He is the son of the billionaire owner of Nando's, Dick Enthoven Richard Enthoven (1937 – 2 December 2022) was a South African billionaire businessman who was the owner of the casual dining chain Nando's, the Hollard Group of insurance companies, and Spier Wine Farm. Early life Richard Enthoven was the so ..., and also goes by the name of Robert T'hooft, T'hooft being his mother's maiden name. Robby Enthoven has been managing director of Nando's since 1993, when there were just two branches. As of 2018, there are over 400 restaurants in the UK. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Enthoven, Robby 1968 births Living people South African businesspeople Dutch businesspeople ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peri-peri
( , often hyphenated or as one word, and with variant spellings , ''piripiri'' or ) is a cultivar of ''Capsicum frutescens'' from the malagueta pepper. It was originally produced by Portuguese explorers in Portugal's former Southern African territories, particularly Mozambique and its border regions with South Africa, and then spread to other Portuguese domains. Etymology ''Pilipili'' in Swahili means "pepper". Other romanizations include in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Malawi, deriving from various pronunciations of the word in different parts of Bantu-speaking Africa. is also the spelling used as a loanword in some African Portuguese-language countries, especially in the Mozambican community. The spelling is common in English, for example in reference to African-style chili sauce, but in Portuguese it is nearly always spelled ''piri-piri''. The ''Oxford Dictionary of English'' records as a foreign word meaning "a very hot sauce made with red ", and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Enthoven
Richard Enthoven (1937 – 2 December 2022) was a South African billionaire businessman who was the owner of the casual dining chain Nando's, the Hollard Group of insurance companies, and Spier Wine Farm. Early life Richard Enthoven was the son of Robert Enthoven, a South African entrepreneur who "amassed an insurance fortune", with his company Robert Enthoven Insurance Brokers. Business interests The Enthoven family owns Nando's casual dining chain, Spier Wine Farm and the Hollard Group of insurance companies. The family has a material ownership stake in the Telesure Group. In March 2015, ''Bloomberg L.P., Bloomberg'' estimated his net worth at US$1.1 billion. Personal life and death Enthoven had three children; Robby, Adrian, and Mariota. Robby Enthoven heads the UK operations for Nando’s. Adrian Enthoven was educated at Oxford University and is now chairman of Hollard Group. Mariota Enthoven is married to Angus McIntosh and they run the Spier Biodynamic Farm. Enthoven h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peri Peri
( , often hyphenated or as one word, and with variant spellings , ''piripiri'' or ) is a cultivar of ''Capsicum frutescens'' from the malagueta pepper. It was originally produced by Portuguese explorers in Portugal's former Southern African territories, particularly Mozambique and its border regions with South Africa, and then spread to other Portuguese domains. Etymology ''Pilipili'' in Swahili means "pepper". Other romanizations include in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Malawi, deriving from various pronunciations of the word in different parts of Bantu-speaking Africa. is also the spelling used as a loanword in some African Portuguese-language countries, especially in the Mozambican community. The spelling is common in English, for example in reference to African-style chili sauce, but in Portuguese it is nearly always spelled ''piri-piri''. The ''Oxford Dictionary of English'' records as a foreign word meaning "a very hot sauce made with red ", and g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galito's
Galito's is a South African multinational fast casual chain that specialises in Portuguese style flame-grilled peri-peri chicken. Founded in Nelspruit, South Africa in 1996, Galito's operates over 210 outlets in 17 countries. It was founded by former Nando's Nando's (; ) is a South African multinational fast casual chain that specialises in flame-grilled peri-peri style chicken. Founded in Johannesburg in 1987, Nando's operates over 1,200 outlets in 30 countries. Their logo (also seen as a sort ... franchisee Louis Germishuys. Germishuys decided to establish his own flame-grilled chicken restaurant after Nando's listed and started buying out franchisees. He developed his own range of sauces with one of his employees, Felix Mokoena, in is home garage before opening his first Galito's restaurant next door to a Nando's restaurant. The chain has restaurants in Canada, Kenya, Malaysia, Pakistan, the UAE, Kazakhstan, India, South Africa, Serbia and Zambia. References {{re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosettenville, Gauteng
Rosettenville is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It lies to the south of the city centre. History Rosettenville is named after Leo (or Levin) Rosettenstein, who surveyed the land and sold stands after gold was discovered on the Witwatersrand. Some roads are named after his family members. Between 1924 and 1972, over 50 000 white Portuguese-speaking immigrants moved to the area, mostly from Portugal, but also from Madeira and Mozambique, which was then a Portuguese colony. After Mozambique gained independence from Portugal in 1976, many more white Mozambicans moved to South Africa, and many of them settled in Rosettenville. The first ever Nando's restaurant was opened in Rosettenville in 1987. Rosettenville is famously known as a place where the celebrated Anglican school, St Peter's College, where the likes of ANC President Oliver Tambo, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jonas Gwangwa, Hugh Masekela, Henry Makgothi and others did part of their high school education. St Pete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rooster Of Barcelos
The Rooster of Barcelos ( pt, Galo de Barcelos) is a common symbol of Portugal. Folk tale The folk tale of the rooster of Barcelos, tells the story of a dead rooster's miraculous intervention in proving the innocence of a man who had been falsely convicted and sentenced to death. The story is associated with the 17th-century calvary that is part of the collection of the Archaeological Museum located in Paço dos Condes, a gothic-style palace in Barcelos, a city in the Braga District of northwest Portugal. According to the tale, a landowner in Barcelos had stolen silver and the inhabitants of that city were looking for the thief. A man from Galicia became a suspect, despite his pleas of innocence. The Galician swore that he was merely passing through Barcelos on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela to fulfill a promise. Nevertheless, the authorities arrested the man and condemned him to hang. The man asked them to take him in front of the judge who had condemned him. The a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indeed
Indeed is an American worldwide employment website for job listings launched in November 2004. It is an independent subsidiary of multinational holding Recruit Co. Ltd. It is co-headquartered in Austin, Texas, and Stamford, Connecticut, with additional offices around the world. As a single-topic search engine, it is also an example of vertical search. Indeed is currently available in over 60 countries and 28 languages. In October 2010, Indeed.com passed Monster.com to become the highest-traffic job website in the United States. The site aggregates job listings from thousands of websites, including job boards, staffing firms, associations, and company career pages. They generate revenue by selling premium job posting and resume features to employers and companies hiring. In 2011, Indeed began allowing job seekers to apply directly to jobs on Indeed's site and offering resume posting and storage. History Indeed was co-founded by Paul Forster and Rony Kahan in 2004 in both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USA Today
''USA Today'' (stylized in all uppercase) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15, 1982, the newspaper operates from Gannett's corporate headquarters in Tysons, Virginia. Its newspaper is printed at 37 sites across the United States and at five additional sites internationally. The paper's dynamic design influenced the style of local, regional, and national newspapers worldwide through its use of concise reports, colorized images, Infographic, informational graphics, and inclusion of popular culture stories, among other distinct features. With an average print circulation of 159,233 as of 2022, a digital-only subscriber base of 504,000 as of 2019, and an approximate daily readership of 2.6 million, ''USA Today'' is ranked as the first by circulation on the list of newspapers in the United States. It has been shown to maintain a generally center-left audience, in regards to political persuasion. ''US ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers '' The Observer'' and '' The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
