Nando’s customers have hit out at the restaurant chain following price hikes for a popular menu item.

A quarter chicken with two sides now costs £11.20, which is a third more than it did three years ago in August 2021, when it was just £8.25. 

In January 2022, Nando’s first increased the price to £8.75, before upping it to £9.95 in January 2023 and raising it again to £10.50 in August 2023, increasing a further 25p at the start of this year, which works out as a 30 per cent price hike.

This has caused outrage among Nando’s customers online, with one writing: ‘The prices have sky-rocketed and portions have gotten smaller or stayed the same depending on which restaurant you go to.’

‘Consumers will see soaring prices as inexcusable,’ consumer champion Scott Dixon, from website The Complaints Resolver, told the Sun. 

A quarter chicken with two sides now costs £11.20, which is a third more than it did three years ago in August 2021, when it was just £8.25

Nando’s has seen the price of some of its most popular dishes increase by a third over the past three years 

‘It’s expensive for what it is and people will wonder why they are expected to pay more for less when Nando’s are recording record profits,’ he added.

Mr Dixon said that Nando’s might say the price hike is due to rising costs of the ingredients they use as well as energy and wage bills.

But he warned that the chicken restaurant chain could ‘face a potential loss of support and loyalty from customers.’

Other diners who have slammed Nando’s online said that the ‘prices are far too high’, suggesting that people were better of making their own chicken dinner at home, the Sun reports. 

MailOnline has contacted Nando’s for comment. 

This comes after MailOnline reported that High Street restaurants were accused of ripping off their customers with price increases hitting up to 40 per cent over the past four years. 

Brands such as Pizza Express, Zizzi and McDonald’s have all seen major increases in price putting further pressure on customers during the cost of living crisis. 

However, even budget boozer Wetherspoons has been forced to increase its prices as a result of rising inflation and the growing cost of basic food and vegetables. 

In some cases, customers have found that portion sizes have been shrinking to mask the increase. 

Businesses are blaming the ongoing inflation crisis, the high cost of rent, an increased minimum wage and higher food costs as forcing them to increase prices. 

Kate Nicholls, chief executive of industry body UKHospitality, told MailOnline in January: ‘No business wants to raise its prices, particularly in a cost-of-living crisis and it is credit to the sector that we have been able to minimise the extent to which the soaring costs of doing business have been passed onto customers thus far.

‘However, what’s becoming apparent is that action is needed to bring costs down, if we are to prevent price rises for consumers this year.’