A Commercial for Habib’s Fast Food from Brazil

A Commercial for Habib’s Fast Food from Brazil


Posted on YouTube: October 8, 2018

This is a commercial for Habib’s, a major fast food chain in Brazil. They have 475 outlets in Brazil.

They are planning to expand outside of Brazil.

Lebanese food has been adopted in Brazil the very same way that Americans have embraced Italian or Mexican food.

Source: Wikipedia

Habib’s was founded by a Portuguese-born baker, Alberto Saraiva, who had no particular ties to the Middle East himself, got the idea early in 1988 after an ailing old man of Arab descent applied for a job in his bakery. With no job at hand for the man to apply to, but upon learning that he had been a cook back in his home land, Mr. Saraiva decided to open a small fast-food restaurant focused on Middle-Eastern fast-food, unheard at the time in Brazil, believing the success could rely on the novelty of it, and hired the man. … The first Habib’s restaurant was opened later that same year.