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Pierre van Tonder: Passing the baton
Pierre van Tonder plans to hang up his apron this December; we asked him if he would still be going if there were no Covid and SA were enjoying the economic growth it should
When Pierre van Tonder joined Seven Spur as a trainee manager in Sea Point in 1982, Time magazine’s Man of the Year was the computer, Michael Jackson would release his smash album Thriller, and the first CD player was sold in Japan. Clearly, a lot has changed since. Spur back then had only 80 restaurants; today it has 640 — across SA, the Middle East and elsewhere in Africa. Van Tonder plans to hang up his apron this December; we asked him if he would still be going if there were no Covid and SA were enjoying the economic growth it should.
PVT: It’s obviously a very difficult question to answer, but I don’t think it changes the situation in terms of my retirement. If you look at my years of service, the baton had to be passed to someone else to take Spur to a higher level than it’s been. So, very simply, yes...
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