“RATIONAL understood perfectly to transform our individual requirements and delivered a customised solution for Nando’s. They adapted cooking processes for our food items and customised our operational concepts using RATIONAL technology.” - Jeff Bloch, technical director
In 1987, a restaurant named Chickenland started in South Africa. Two friends visited the place and fell in love with PERi-PERi flame grilled chicken. They bought the restaurant and changed the name into Nando’s. The first Nando’s in the UK opened in 1992. Nowadays, it has more than 1,100 restaurants worldwide in 24 countries. Most of the Nando’s restaurants are located in UK, South Africa and Australia.
The casual dining restaurant chain specialises in chicken dishes and is famous for its unique PERI-PERI marinade and basting sauces. Diners enjoy the good, nutritional fresh food and the classy familiar atmosphere at the restaurants.
“We have had a fruitful working relationship with Nando’s for the last 15 years. They are very experienced in what they are doing and understand our requirements,” says Jeff Bloch, Technical Director. The passion for high customer satisfaction unites RATIONAL and Nando’s. Together, they developed cooking profiles for several food items, such as chicken breasts, portobello mushrooms, or different rice dishes for the Nando’s expansion into the US market, for example. “To optimize the cleaning process for Nando’s,” explains Jeff Bloch,
Technical Director, “they cooked 6,000 Nando’s chickens over a period of 2 weeks. Now with Efficient CareControl, we can clean the SelfCookingCenter® unsupervised overnight and have no problems with limescale any longer.” Over the years, a suitable dealer and service partner network was setup and trained on the Nando’s SelfCookingCenter® specifics.