WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — All Nando’s locations in the D.C. area are giving away their signature chicken for free to federal workers on Friday for National Employee Appreciation Day.

South African-born restaurant Nando’s Peri-Peri has expanded to more than 1,500 locations across the globe since its debut in 1987, and now it’s coming to North Texas in late spring 2023.

Yet there she was, ready to dig into some peri-peri chicken and “chips” (fries). This was Nando’s, a South African chain started in 1987 in Johannesburg. With 1,200 locations around the ...