AIBU to just not get why Wagamama

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and some other chains like Nandos are so bloody popular. What is all the fuss about? I am willing to listen to why IABU and change my mind so why do people love them so much?

Presumably its because the food and ambience/general vibe of the place suits their personal taste.

Cos they are both damn tasty, better than mcd's and not too expensive.

bleurgh to Nando's - nasty non-free range chicken

but yum to Wagamama's - spicy, simple Asian street food (at just a tad more expensive)

Wagamama food is bloody lovely and reasonably priced, and I know that my favourite Yaki Soba will taste exactly the same in Manchester Wagamama as it does in Newcastle Wagamama! That's why I love it!

YABU. It's not authentic cuisine but good quality, imo, and very speedy. Customer service excellent too, ime.

Those long tables remind me of school dinners though...

Ive never got Nandos- Wagamama is awesome though!

I don't mind chains,but I really don't get the popularity of Wagamama. Their food is either too bland or has too many flavours in it fighting for attention. I've had far better food in just about any other Japanese restaurant I've tried. The only thing I like is their fruit juice.
I'd only ever dine there if I had no other options.

But if I remember rightly it wasn't that cheap, Wagamama that is. I mean it's just noodles and stuff right?

Wagamama is fast and tasty, albeit a bit pricey. Nandos on the other hand is overrated and bad value.

I really like Wagamama's, too. Nando's is tasty but I don't like the battery chicken thing. Wagamama's is reasonably priced, has fast and good service, decent and generously-sized children's menu and a brilliant variety of different things.

I love Nandos - it's nicer than McDonalds / KFC or any other fast food outlet. I have an extra hot chicken buger with cheddar, haloumi, perinaisse and cover it in extra hot sauce.

I do feel bad that they are not free range chickens though.

I have not been to a Wagamamas as we don't have one near me. I would try one though.....Is it like a Ping Pong in London?

It's anything but tasty imho.

I haven't tried Nandos so can't comment on that.

Wagamama is more noodles and rice dishes rather than dumplings like Ping Pong.

Notreallycheap

So up £7.50 to £13.50 for some noodles with strips of meat?

Thanks haberdashery - have just goolged their menu and now I am hungry and want noodles :)

Free green tea :)

I don't get Nandos at all, there are queues to get in at my local one. I've never been so maybe I'm missing some delightful battery chicken experience though.

Wagamamas is delicious and the only restaurant near the National Theatre that I KNOW will be open after a show. It doesn't taste like it's full of shite.

Wagamamas isn't like Ping Pong, it's more noodly than that and they have them everywhere not just London.

I would just like to point out I have a chicken burger at Nandos, not a chicken buger. Which just sounds wrong

mmm i love nandos

DH loves Nandos and the vegi stuff they do is tasty. Both Wagamama and Nandos are pretty family friendly.

Catgirl
No it's nothing like Ping Pong.

It's just basically noodles with 'stuff' served in a sterile environment on canteen style tables at higher prices

I like Wagamamas, their food is lovely. Dh raves about Nando's, I think their food is quite nice but very overpriced, and you even have to go up and order.

Okay so you don't like it - other's do - don't go there!

YABU!

Loooooove Wagamama's although I will concede it IS expensive...and I like Ping Pong even more. Never been in a Nando's, though, although most of my male friends (with exception, fortunately, of DH) love it. Must be the peri peri sauce or whatever it is that they get hooked on...(peri peri always makes me think of beri beri which is some nasty disease I remember seeing in my biology text book!)