Until 19th March, Nando’s is full steam ahead with the Summer of Fun competition!
Head out to your favourite Nando’s and simply purchase a meal (i.e main, regular side and a Coca-Cola drink) to enter the draw to win a Contiki holiday to the destination of your choice. You win, you choose!
Purchase a meal, make sure you keep your scratch card and enter online or SMS.
Good luck!
More than just a string of beads … it’s a lifeline. A simple sentiment with far reaching results. To learn more about the UAM bracelet and to see footage of the beaders in action, please watch the beautifully shot and informative video made by the Relate Trust below. To purchase your UAM bracelet, visit one of our restaurants in Australia.
With the Rugby World Cup kicking off today many hungry fans from all over the world will be heading to New Zealand and we have launched a brand new Restaurant Finder.
Check out the website at www.restaurantfinder.co.nz, from your computer or your mobile.
Replacing the famous annual event Wintersun, Cooly Rocks On in its first year saw a week-long celebration of ‘Happy Days’ culture – a festival representing everything that was cool about the 1950s and ‘60s and everything that’s hot about 2011.
Despite the very challenging weather, the event estimated an attendance of 90,000 people with people coming from far and wide to see the live bands, beautiful hot rods and entertainment.
The event surrounded our Nando’s restaurant in Coolangatta, so we took the opportunity to let everyone know we were there by giving out balloons and vouchers.
Food, Food, Food!!! The annual Taste of Manly was held on 4th and 5th June on the Manly beachfront and the entire festival is all about food. Nando’s had an exclusive invite to participate in the event and held a Nando’s at Home stall selling three sauces for $10.
The surfers at Manly love their PERi-PERi chilli sauces as the bottles sold out on both days at the event. We expect that holding a stall at this event it will promote our Manly Nando’s restaurant which is primarily located on Manly Wharf.
The annual Good Food and Wine Show was held on 3rd, 4th and 5th June at the Melbourne Convention Centre. Nando’s once again got involved and this year the involvement was stepped up to be even more interactive with the crowds.
We had a professional chef cooking up delicious Nando’s at Home recipes and showed the crowds how easy cooking was with PERi-PERi. The menu over the three days consisted of PERi-Potato Salad, Chicken Coconut Curry and Easy Peezy Prawns. These meals were extremely popular with big crowds lining up to try them. On the other side of the stall Nando’s sold three NAH sauces for $10. This event will help all restaurants drive the NAH sales for the quarter two incentive. The Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide shows are still to come so stay tuned!
The Campsie Festival was held on 4th June and Nando’s made a huge impression on the large crowds! There was loads of PR in the lead up to the big event with the Nando’s Eating Competition being mentioned in local press numerous times. The event day was huge! Nando’s had a stall which was selling Nando’s at Home sauces and cooking up tenders to sample to the large crowds. 
The PERi-PERi Challenge eating competition was extremely exciting with the participants having to eat 11 tenders basted in the entire range of PERi-PERi bastings: BBQ, Lemon & Herb, Mild, Hot and Extra Hot. The winner was the only person able to eat this large plate of food! The second round was a vegetarian eating competition and the competitors had to eat five entire veggie burger! The event was a huge success and we expect the crowds to rush back to our restaurants.
Nando’s relationship with the Cronulla Sharks just keeps growing! It could be because of all of the PERi-PERi that the teams are being fed. Last week a competition was put into place in the restaurant to drive sales: Purchase any meal and go into the draw to win tickets to the next Shark’s home game.
On 6th June 2011 Nando’s Calamvale hosted the monthly JDM car meet this past Monday. Every month the car club gets together to shows off their cars and grabs a bite to eat. Monday night’s event was the biggest they have seen with an estimated 450 + cars showing up.
The meet time was set at 7.30pm, but by that time, the upstairs car park at Calamvale Central (200 spaces) was completely full. By 8pm the security were so kind as to open up the lower car park of 250-spaces, it very quickly became full and cars were overflowing up the car park exit.
We had PERi Squad on the ground giving out delicious PERi–PERi chicken nibbles and PIP cards. We offered a 10% discount to all JDM members, they greatly appreciated it.
The night was a huge success and increased sale by 70%.
For those that haven’t heard of them Hamish and Andy are one of the most popular pairs of comedians in Australia. They have their own radio program which airs nationally across many metro and regional radio stations. On the 29th of April the annual ‘Spitroast’, which is was held on the Austereo rooftop in Melbourne. The ‘Spitroast’ is an event that makes a joke of the real Logies (Australian Acting Awards). Nando’s Australia was a major sponsor of the event and received loads of radio credits in the month leading up to the event. Nando’s catered the entire event with a menu consisting of: Chicken of the bone, Pequeno Burger, Tenders of Skewers, BBQ Bites and Veggie Wraps. The event was a huge success with some awesome live reads during the show about how awesome Nando’s PERi-PERi chicken is.
