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Tacos El Cuñado was founded by Canadian American Leo Schlesinger, who moved from Toronto to East Grand Rapids, Michigan in the 1990s. [4] [5] Schlesinger, who owned multiple businesses in the area, opened the first restaurant in a former ice cream stand in 2008 and had the wives of his employees prepare various Mexican dishes for customers. [4]
El Pollo Loco (United States) Costa Mesa, California: Los Angeles, California 1980 480 Based in the United States, not related to Mexican company El Taco Tote: El Paso, Texas: Ciudad Juárez, Mexico: 1988 23 Don Pedro Mexican Restaurant San Antonio, Texas: San Antonio, Texas: 1968 1 Dos Reales Champaign, Illinois: 7 El Bajío: Mexico City ...
BJ's Restaurant: Santa Ana, California: 1978 Huntington Beach, California: 212 Nationwide Operates as BJ's Restaurant & Brewery, BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse, BJ's Grill, and BJ's Pizza & Grill. Black Bear Diner: Mount Shasta, California: 1995 Redding, California: 144 West Bob Evans Restaurant: Gallipolis, Ohio: 1948 New Albany, Ohio: 440 Mid ...
Bell sold the El Tacos to his partner and built the first Taco Bell in Downey in 1962. Kermit Becky, a former Los Angeles police officer, bought the first Taco Bell franchise from Glen Bell in 1964, [39] and located it in Torrance. The company grew rapidly, and by 1967, the 100th restaurant opened at 400 South Brookhurst in Anaheim.
Introducing Mexican food to America was not El Chico's only notable feat: It was also one of the early chain restaurants, with multiple locations at a time when mom-and-pop single-location restaurants ruled. [2] Joe V. Carvajal was an integral part of the success of many of the El Chico restaurants in the 1960s and '70s.
Irving began in 1889 as an area called Gorbit, and in 1894 the name changed to Kit. [15] Irving was incorporated April 14, 1914, with Otis Brown as the first mayor. By the late nineteenth century the Irving area was the site of churches, two cotton gins, a blacksmith shop and a general store.
The menu featured Tex-Mex items, made-from-scratch salsa, tortillas and sauces, and a range of other Mexican specialties. At one time, this chain had as many as 120 locations throughout the United States and was the second largest full-service Mexican restaurant chain within the United States during the late 1990s, second only to Chi-Chi's. [2]
Chico's Tacos is a small local restaurant chain based in El Paso, Texas. It was founded on July 4, 1953 by local boxing promoter Joe Mora. Long considered a local institution in El Paso, it is perhaps the city's best-known restaurant, having been featured in the Food Network show The Best Thing I Ever Ate.