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Nando's (/ ˈ n æ n d oʊ z /; Afrikaans:) is a South African multinational fast casual [1] chain that specialises in Portuguese flame-grilled peri-peri style chicken. [a] Founded in Johannesburg in 1987, later purchased by the British Berkeley’s conglomerate seven years later, Nando's operates over 1,200 outlets [1] in 30 countries.
Sears, Roebuck and Co. (/ s ɪər z / SEERZ), [5] commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began as a mail ordering catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago. [6]
On 21 July 1995, Bass bought the seventy eight restaurants of Harvester for £165 million from the Forte Group. [2] Whitbread had offered £150 million to acquire the chain. [2] Most Harvesters were in the South East, and Bass had plans to rebrand other restaurants (such as the former Innkeeper's Fayre) elsewhere in England as Harvesters.
In 1985, singer Jimmy Buffett opened his first successful "Margaritaville" retail store in Key West, Florida, following a failed Margaritaville in Gulf Shores, Alabama. [2] [3] In 2002, he expanded his business ventures by partnering with Outback Steakhouse to develop the first Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurant in Southport, Indiana.
Einstein Bros. was created by the chain restaurant corporation Boston Chicken ... In 1996, the chain of 38 stores was sold to Einstein Bros. for $100 million. [5]
The world's largest IKEA store is located in Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines. In 1943, then-17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad founded IKEA as a mail-order sales business, and began to sell furniture five years later. [22]
Chi-Chi's is a single Mexican restaurant currently operating in Vienna, Austria, that is the only remnant left of a much larger chain. [1] The company was briefly owned by Tumbleweed, Inc. [2] [failed verification] The chain also once operated in the United States and Canada but exited those countries in 2004, and closed their Germany and Belgium locations in 2022.
Red & White ad from 1955. Red & White Corporation is a chain of independently owned and operated food stores operating in the United States and Canada.While it has been supplanted by supermarket chains in many of its locations, its signature red dot logo with the words Red & White can still be found on small independent grocers in many states & provinces.