Nando's has defended a bizarre - and apparently flirtatious - tweet sent from its official account asking for the home address of a female customer.
The message was posted after a Twitter user, identified only as Elle, posted: "I thought I could handle Nandos hot chicken. But boyyyy the way my mouth was burning."
Nando's staff then used the chain's official account to reply: "Can't handle the heat Elle? ;-)", to which Elle responded: "I can handle it, I just choose not to actually."
In an apparently flirtatious response, the spicy chicken restaurant chain then tweeted: "Well why not DM us your address and we'll see if we can test that ;-)".
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Is nandos moving me or am I seeing things <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=9&id=222025&p=http://t.co/NVY2dWWQOc" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-37521-http://t.co/NVY2dWWQOc" data-vars-event-id="c23">pic.twitter.com/NVY2dWWQOc</a>— Elle (@ells__) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/ells__/status/603510960922435584" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-37521-https://twitter.com/ells__/status/603510960922435584" data-vars-event-id="c23">May 27, 2015</a>
The post was branded "cheeky" by people on Twitter after Elle took a screenshot of it to share with her followers.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/ells__" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-37521-https://twitter.com/ells__" data-vars-event-id="c23">@ells__</a> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/CinematicChris" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-37521-https://twitter.com/CinematicChris" data-vars-event-id="c23">@CinematicChris</a> chor blimey thats cheeky— El Pistolero (@BigDaddyDonz) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/BigDaddyDonz/status/603550198825164800" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-37521-https://twitter.com/BigDaddyDonz/status/603550198825164800" data-vars-event-id="c23">May 27, 2015</a>
But a Nando's spokesman insisted the message was purely innocent.
"We like to have fun with our customers on Twitter and reward our loyal fans," the chain told the Telegraph.
"We wanted to send Elle a bottle of hot sauce in response to her tweet, which is where the reference to ‘handling the heat’ comes from.
"We would never intentionally offend someone and when we realised we may have done so, deleted the tweet. This is not something we would usually do.”
