ARLINGTON, Va. - The Sept. 17 Capitals takeover of Nando's PERi-PERi in Arlington, Va., raised $8,812.27 for Monumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation.
Washington Capitals players Lars Eller, Stanislav Galiev, Nate Schmidt and Tom Wilson provided service at the Ballston restaurant throughout the day. All sales within the 11 a.m.-9 p.m. time frame benefitted Monumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation.
Eller, Galiev, Schmidt and Wilson shadowed employees and greeted guests, helped take orders at cash registers and delivered food to tables.
Additional participants included Capitals alumnus Paul Mulvey, PA Announcer Wes Johnson, Red Rockers and mascot Slapshot, Elliot in the Morning Show host Elliot Segal, CSN Mid-Atlantic's Capitals analyst and Caps alumnus Craig Laughlin and CSN Mid-Atlantic's Capitals contributor Courtney Laughlin.
Monumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation
Monumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation supports the charitable efforts of the professional teams under its umbrella: the Washington Capitals, Mystics, Valor and Wizards. MSE Foundation is committed to the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area and focuses on the following five pillars to maximize its impact and engagement with the community: youth basketball, football and hockey, education and scholarship, pediatric health and fitness, military and veterans' affairs and hunger and homelessness.
Nando's PERi-PERi
The first Nando's restaurant opened its doors in 1987 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Since then, the Nando's flame has spread to 23 countries on five continents. Nando's is known worldwide for its succulent PERi-PERi chicken, marinated for 24 hours, flame-grilled to perfection, and basted to the customer's preferred flavor and spice. It's equally renowned for its spicy PERi-PERi, the Bird's Eye chili pepper that indigenous Africans introduced to the Portuguese centuries ago.
Nando's PERi-PERi made its U.S. debut in 2008 with the opening of its first location in the Chinatown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Nando's PERi-PERi now operates three dozen restaurants in and around Chicago, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. For more information, please visit
www.nandosperiperi.com
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