Mubin Ul Haider: Nando’s History Famous for its Portuguese Flame-grilled Chicken.

Mubin Ul Haider | Mubin Haider 

Nando’s has its origins in a mining town in South Africa, where many Mozambicans of Portuguese origin relocated to Johannesburg in search of gold, and carried Peri Peri recipes to South Africa. Industries catering to the mining communities quickly began to grow in Rosettenville of Johannesburg.

The Nando’s restaurant began in 1987 when two friends, founders and still owners of Nando’s, Robert Brozin and Fernando Duarte fell in love with the taste of Portuguese Peri-Peri chicken and bought a restaurant called Chickenland in Rosettenville. It was love at first taste so much so that they took the leap quit their jobs and changing its name to Nando’s, before they decided to take it to the world.

By the end of the year the first Nando’s restaurant was trading and within two years, Nando’s had three outlets in Johannesburg and one in Portugal. The two friends would take the best tasting chicken from the unassuming suburb of Rosettenville, South Africa to the world. The restaurant incorporated influences from former Portuguese colonists from Mozambique, and is known today as a South African casual dining restaurant group.

In Australia with the first opening was in Tuart Hill in Western Australia with a taste of Portuguese-style flame-grilled PERI-PERI chicken in 1990. Australians love Nando’s and the brand and has since spread its wings creating more Nando's addicts as it opened restaurants in Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales.

A total of 300 locations around Australia and keeps growing. Their growth and popularity continued, and today there are over 1,000 restaurants in 30 countries around the world, making Nando’s South Africa's most successful restaurant group export. 

Mubin Ul Haider