S African restaurant chain to open in Cork

NANDO’S, the popular South African restaurant chain which specialises in peri-peri chicken, is to open its first outlet outside Dublin at Mahon Point shopping centre.

The restaurant chain expects the Cork outlet to be open before Christmas and it will employ 40 people. Nando’s is one of the most popular restaurants in Britain and it opened its first Irish outlet at Dundrum shopping centre in September 2008. The company is also looking at a possible outlet on Cork’s Oliver Plunkett Street or Washington Street.

The general manager of Nando’s in Ireland Alan Snyman said the Dundrum outlet had a “solid performance” last year and this year is already “better than thought”.