View from C-Suite

In this weekly feature Michael Avery gets up close and personal with South Africa’s business and political economy leaders, to uncover what makes them tick, keeps them up at night and keeps them going through the Covid storm. This week’s guest has gone from serving as a trainee manager at Seven Spur in Sea Point in 1982 – the year that springbok scrumhalf Ricky Januarie, who shattered all black hearts in Dunedin 2008, was born, and Walkman’s were still cool – to serving for 24 years as the CEO of one he country’s most iconic family restaurant franchises, and is now hanging up his apron in December.Spur CEO Pierre van Tonder, talks about building an iconic franchise, the threat of the new food delivery disruptors, his favourite meal and why he is confident about the future of SA.