restaurant industry fast food founded 1988 founder the mo men brothers headquarters egypt owner mohamed mo men parent mo men group website momen.co mo men arabic pronounced mo men is a chain of fast food restaurants based in cairo egypt specializing in sandwiches . mo men is a wholly owned subsidiary of the mo men group . contents 1 history 2 locations in egypt 3 international locations 4 factory 5 actis deal 6 the cart 7 controversies 8 see also 9 references 10 external links history edit the mo men brothers opened their first restaurant in heliopolis in 1988 with a capital of l.e. 12 000 . at that time egypt was opening itself to international franchises and many were waiting for the arrival of american fast food chains such as mcdonald s and kfc . 1 however local fast food chains such as mo men started catering to that market demand . today mo men restaurants chain is steadily becoming one of the large restaurants chains in egypt in terms of average sales and number of customers per restaurant with 57 restaurants serving over ten million customers a year . mo men restaurants are serving more than double the number of customers and achieving double the sales per restaurant if compared with any of the international chains operating in egypt . 2 locations in egypt edit there are currently 62 mo men locations in egypt covering all of cairo and alexandria s cities as well as other locations in the country . 3 international locations edit mo men recently opened locations in libya sudan dubai kuwait bahrain saudi arabia and malaysia . 4 5 factory edit on october 1999 the construction of mo men s factory began . the factory was built with the production capacity of 1.5 tons per hour and is considered one of the largest in the middle east . the factory is 12 000 m2 6 and consists of fully automated production lines to process the full range of beef poultry and seafood products bakery dry and cold stores quality control laboratories actis deal edit on july 30 2008 actis capital a leading private equity investor in emerging markets has completed a deal to invest us 48.5 million in mo men group . actis s us 48.5 million investment in mo men will help the group pursue its planned expansion throughout northern africa and the persian gulf region . and now mo men also opened new branches in sudan gulf countries libya and even malaysia . the cart edit the cart is a new franchise concept that makes mo men group a keyplayer in low cost fast food franchise market a market which has not reached its saturation in egypt . controversies edit in july 2013 mobs set a branch on fire in egypt on the pretext that it is affiliated to the muslim brotherhood 7 after the muslim brotherhood affiliated president mohamed morsi was deposed recently at then by the 2013 egyptian coup d tat . see also edit cook door list of fast food restaurants in egypt references edit injy el kashef s restaurant review al ahram weekly mo men 2008 mo men s profile mo men 2012 mo men s branches mo men bahrain official website mo men 2008 mo men s branches mo men 2008 mo men s profile . el beteng n lel gam a youtube channel . retrieved 31 october 2013 . arabic title translation a huge fire engulfing mo men s shop in port said o god protect egypt from the sectarian strife external links edit mo men s homepage mo men group s homepage retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mo % 27men & oldid 703005203 categories restaurants in egyptfast food chains of egyptrestaurants established in 1988hidden categories articles with arabic language external linksarticles containing arabic language text navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 2 february 2016 at 22 40 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view