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Nando’s forced to close 24 stores across the country after they run out of food
Bad news for Nando’s fans
Nando’s has been left with no option but to close a number of its stores after running out of food thanks to ongoing delivery delays.
The South African piri-piri chicken chain confirmed yesterday that the closures were a result of staffing problems at its suppliers’ factories, meaning not enough deliveries were being made to a number of its restaurants across the country.
The company has been informing customers online that its current shortages have been caused by staff ‘isolation periods’ and suppliers ‘struggling to keep up with demand.’
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According to their website, at least twenty-four restaurants across the UK are closed today as a result of the supply chain issues – to tackle the shortages, however, Nando’s said it will be lending seventy members of staff to suppliers’ factories to ‘get things moving again.’
A spokesperson said: “The UK food industry has been experiencing disruption across its supply chain in recent weeks due to staff shortages, and a number of our restaurants have been impacted.
“However, we can confirm that from today Nando’s will be lending seventy of our brilliant team members to support our key suppliers – working in partnership to help get things moving again.
“We expect to see this having a positive impact on the affected restaurants very soon, so please bear with us whilst we do everything we can to get our famous peri-peri chicken back where it belongs – on your plates!”
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And Nando’s isn’t the only restaurant suffering staff and food shortages – just last week, KFC warned that some menu items are currently unavailable due to food shortages.
The famed American fast food restaurant did not say which menu items were affected or how long the disruption is expected to last, with bosses only blaming the ‘disruption over the last few weeks.’
The Road Haulage Association has warned that, as a combined result of the Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit, there has been a shortage of 100,000 lorry drivers in the UK, which has been hampering deliveries of food from warehouses.