Chain: Nando's

Nando’s PERi-PERi Launches New Summer Menu

Nando’s PERi-PERi, the popular South African-born restaurant brand globally loved for its distinctive fiery grilled PERi-PERi chicken, has recently hatched a brand-new summer menu of reinvented PERi-charged bites. Now available in Nando’s US stores located in Virginia Beach, Chicago, the Washington D.C. region, Houston, and soon-to-be Dallas, the menu introduces customers to hot new ways […]

Nando’s PERi-PERi to Give Away Free Meals to Those Bringing School Supplies

Nando’s PERi-PERi will honor its South African roots on Tuesday July 18th by celebrating Mandela Day and remembering South African leader and anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela. To commemorate Mandela’s fight for social justice, Nando’s will give away free meals to customers who bring back-to-school supplies for under-served area youth.  The event will run from 4pm […]

Nando’s to Exchange Empty Hot Sauce Bottles for Free Free Chicken

On January 22, 2023, Nando’s PERi-PERi is putting the hot back into National Hot Sauce Day. Bring an empty bottle of Nando’s sauce to any Nando’s restaurant in the US on the 22nd and trade it in for a free flamed-grilled quarter chicken. “There’s never been a swap this hot,” says Paulo Oliveira, Nando’s Vice President […]

Nando’s to Give Away Free Chicken and Chips to Celebrate Mandela Day

Nando’s PERi-PERi will give out free flame-grilled chicken and chips on Monday, July 18th, from 3pm to 6pm at all US locations to celebrate Mandela Day and honor the brand’s proud South African heritage. To receive Nando’s signature meal–a quarter chicken and chips (fries)–on the house, the brand is encouraging customers to donate new school supplies at […]

Nando’s to Enter Texas for First Time

Nando’s PERi-PERi, the beloved South African restaurant brand recognized around the world for its spicy flame-grilled chicken, today announced its first new major market expansion in more than seven years. Plans call for the spring 2023 opening of a pair of initial Houston-area restaurants – Post Oak Plaza in Uptown, and La Centerra in Katy – in advance of […]

Nando’s Giving Away Free Chicken on Sunday

This Sunday, Nando’s PERi-PERi will honor its South African roots by celebrating Mandela Day and remembering South African leader and anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela. To commemorate Mandela’s 67-year-long fight for social justice, Nando’s will be devoting 67 minutes to giving away free meals to customers who bring a donation to local food banks. The event […]

Nando’s Serves ‘unDemocratic Meals’ to Guests

Nando’s PERi-PERi customers recently were served some of the strangest and least appetizing dishes they could imagine. All for a good cause. After customers were told that the kitchen would choose for them, their orders were brought out: One hungry customer received two chocolate brownies served on a bed of rice Another customer received a […]

Nando’s Serving Up Voter Registrations

Starting on September 22, National Voter Registration Day, customers will be able to order voter-registration forms directly from the menu at every Nando’s PERi-PERi in the United States. (For free, of course.) It’s all part of a mad dash to increase participation in democracy during the most crucial presidential election in modern times. Every Nando’s […]

Nando’s PERi-PERi to Stay Open, Employ 2,600 People

Nando’s PERi-PERi announced March 26 that it will keep nearly all its 92 restaurants open in the US and Canada for at least the next two weeks, to continue to employ its 2,600-person U.S. and Canadian workforce. “Today’s decision means that we are keeping some restaurants open that are barely generating revenue, just so that […]

Nando’s PERi-PERi Offering Half-Price Sangria on Mother’s Day

In honor of Mother’s Day, Nando’s PERi-PERi will offer half-price Sangria at all Nando’s 42 U.S. restaurants on Sunday, May 12. Skip the usual mad rush to get a Mother’s Day reservation and pick up a half-price glass or pitcher of Sangria (along with some tasty PERi-PERi chicken) at Nando’s instead. The promotion lasts from […]

Nando’s Introduces Hottest Sauce Ever

Nando’s hot sauce just got a lot hotter. Available starting Wednesday at all U.S. restaurants, Nando’s introduces PERi-PERi VUSA, its hottest sauce ever, with the highest concentration of PERi-PERi peppers. Named ‘Vusa,’ which means ‘excitement and fire’ in Zulu, the new sauce boasts more PERi-PERi chili peppers than any other Nando’s offering.  PERi-PERi VUSA also […]

Nando’s Opens New Ontario Location

The eagerly awaited Nando’s Dixie location will be opening June 9, at 5101 Dixie Road Unit A, bringing its globally renowned flame-grilled PERi- PERi chicken to the Dixie community. The fast casual dining restaurant, which has become famous for its Portuguese-style flame-grilled chicken—made with African Bird’s Eye Chilli, the key to its PERi-PERi sauce—and its […]

Nando’s Peri-Peri Sauce Heats Up Supermarkets Across U.S.

Nando’s Peri-Peri is now widely available in more than 10,000 of the nation’s biggest retailers. Safeway, Kroger, Fresh Market, Publix, and many other supermarkets carry Nando’s Peri-Peri sauce now, and Walmart recently began selling the sauce—made with the African Bird’s Eye Chili Pepper—in its thousands of U.S. retail locations. It’s the latest example of a […]

Nando’s Amasses Largest Twitter Following

Casual-dining giant Nando's is the leading food and beverage brands on Twitter, according to the latest Food and Beverage Social Media Benchmark from eDigitalResearch. The recent study saw Nando's cement their place in the top of the Twitter league table with more than 1.5 million followers—half a million more followers than second place Dominos. Given […]