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THE STORY OF THE MAN
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Jimmy studied marketing and his early working years were spent in the engineering industry.
He was first exposed to the operational side of the restaurant industry when he was asked to help out a family member who had an interest in a problem restaurant. When the problems were resolved and he returned to the engineering industry he realized his true passion lay in serving people and making them happy.
He opened three successful restaurants prior to the first Jimmy’s Killer Prawns which was literally “Born from a dream".
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THE OLD MINING HOUSE
The old mining house where the first Jimmy’s Killer Prawns was run from had previously been the site of a failed restaurant. When he was offered the site he and his wife Penny fell in love with it and signed for it without knowing what they would do with it.
One night Jimmy had a dream about a Sunday lunch he had, with a group of his friends, in Lourenco Marques (now Maputo). A group of about 20 of them sat on a long table drinking lots of “Gatao” wine and “Laurentina beer”. In his dream Jimmy had a birdseye view of the table from above. When the waiters brought out four huge platters of prawns and placed them in the centre of the table for all to share, as if through a camera lens, he zoomed in on a platter of these prawns and woke up. He then knew that prawns were the product he needed to focus on in the new restaurant.
Jimmy developed a passion for quality seafood, especially prawns and this together with his passion for serving people and making them happy is what has turned Jimmy and Jimmy’s Killer Prawns into a legend.
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