Related Directory Categories
- Ortiz, Nando (1)
Sources
Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.
Submit a site - Become an editor
Wikipedia. Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Are you an expert in this subject? Join the discussion and share your knowledge at Wikipedia.org.
Nando's
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nando's is a global fast-food restaurant chain originating from South Africa with a Portuguese-theme.
Nando's specializes in chicken dishes with either lemon and herb, medium, hot or extra hot peri-peri marinades (properly known as Galinha à Africana). Side dishes such as spicy rice, chips (with either Chicken Salt, or Peri Peri Salt), coleslaw, corn on the cob (mealies), cous cous, portuguese rolls or side garden salads.
Both "eat in" and "take-out" options are usually available.
In Canada, Bangladesh, South Africa, Australia, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand, a large number of stores are halal. One branch of Nando's in South Africa is kosher (Savoy Kosher Nando's).
Contents |
The name Nando's comes from Fernando, the name of one of the founders of the chain - Fernando Duarte. He and a friend, Robert Brozin, bought a restaurant called Chickenland in Rosettenville, near Johannesburg in 1983.[1] This became the first Nando's restaurant, which incorporated influences by former Portuguese colonists from Mozambique, many of whom had settled on the south-eastern side of Johannesburg. As a result, Nando's is sometimes still referred to as Nando's Chickenland.
Nando's has online web stores in Australia, United Kingdom and USA. Customers can purchase a range of Nando's branded sauces, sprinkles and apparel. Nando's also sells their range of sauces and sprinkles through major supermarkets.
- Nando's suggests on their website that David Beckham and the England team have visited the Nando's restaurant located in Manchester.[2]
- TV comedian Ricky Gervais is a fan of Nando's and in an article [3] he mentions that if The Office were syndicated in the US, he would "buy Buckingham Palace and turn it into a huge Nandos".
Nando's is known in South Africa for its humorous but often controversial adverts. One such television advert from 2000, involved a blind woman being led into a pole intentionally and knocked unconscious by her guide dog, which then proceeded to eat the chicken that the woman had just purchased. This caused an uproar within the blind community and caused the South African Advertising Standards Authority to call for the withdrawal of the advert[4].
In Australia, Nandos ran an advertising campaign based around the 2002 political controversy regarding the mandatory detention of illegal immigrants. The detainees had been waging a hunger strike campaign, even resorting to physically sewing their lips closed. Nandos adverts proclaimed that the strikers "decided to unsew their lips after hearing the news that with every Nando's quarter chicken combo, Nando's are giving away an extra quarter chicken free"[5]
- Oporto - An Australian-based Portuguese themed restaurant.
- ^ http://www.nandos.co.uk/frame/ABUS/About_Us.html
- ^ http://www.nandos.com/worldwide/uk.html
- ^ http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2006/11/08/4662/david_brent_on_tour
- ^ http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=qw951926581994B231 - "Blind" Advert Controversy
- ^ http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/07/28/1027818485483.html
- Global Nando's website
- Nando's Australian website
- Nando's New Zealand website
- Nando's Israel website
- Nando's South African website
- Nando's USA website
- Nando's UK website
- Nando's Malaysia website
- Nando's Canada website
‹The template UK Food is being considered for deletion.›