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==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 [[Portugal|Portuguese]]-born [[Fernando Duarte]] and [[South Africa]]n-born [[Robert Brozin]]. 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 [[Pound sterling|£]]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|language=en|access-date=3 May 2019}}</ref>