Nandosgate: We’re sorry… and here’s some free sauce
PARLIAMENTARY candidate Tulip Siddiq can end her one woman boycott of the West Hampstead Nando’s, the war on peri-peri chicken. The Labour councillor, who had been known to tell friends ‘I can’t live without Nando’s’, was left in a tweeting rage back in December after being accused at the West End Lane branch of, to use her words, ‘faking stamps on my Nando’s loyalty card’.
I just got accused of faking stamps on my #nandos loyalty card in West End Lane Nandos. Unbelievably rude staff member. @nandosuk #sadtimes
— Tulip Siddiq (@TulipSiddiq) December 14, 2013
It didn’t take too many retweets before a senior Nando’s person apparently rang up with an apology. I’m told when she declined to provide her home address amid the grovelling, they sent two bottles of spicy sauce – one medium, one hot – to her Town Hall pigeonhole along with a written apology for the misunderstanding. Case closed. We can all move on.
I hope Cllr Siddiq’s register of interest is promptly updated to include the chicken shop’s largesse
She probably didn’t want to leave her address as she didn’t know which of her 7 properties she’d be at that week.