Nando’s restaurants help disadvantaged local families

A local fast food restaurant is helping local disadvantaged families through a charity partnership to provide meals.

Nandos staff helping local families. Picture: Nandos

MORE than 2000 meals have been provided to disadvantaged locals in the Capalaba area thanks to an initiative between Nando’s and SecondBite.

The initiative, called NanDonation, secures food from Nando’s restaurants that was otherwise headed for landfill and redistributes it to charities across Australia, all individually identified as suitable partners through the SecondBite partnership.

Since the launch of the program in February last year, 78 Nando’s restaurants have helped facilitate more than 65,000 meals across the country, with the aim to see all 200 plus Australian restaurants participating by the end of 2019.

Chicken from Nando’s Capalaba restaurant in the Capalaba Central Shopping Centre is donated each week to local charity, Salvation Army Alex Hills.

Nando’s has been working with Salvation Army Alex Hills for 10 months and aimed to provide at least 492 meals to the community over the next 12 months.

Sustainability and purpose manager at Nando’s Bob Gordon said NanDonation was an important and rewarding program for both the restaurant staff and local community partners.

SecondBite CEO Jim Mullan said the program made a real difference to families doing it tough around the country.

“We are absolutely delighted with the way our partnership with Nando’s is developing,” he said.