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When Compass Group acquired Restaurant Associates in 1998, Acapulco became owned by Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co., a private equity firm that had an ownership stake in Restaurant Associates. [4] Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co. used Acapulco as the starting point of Real Mex Restaurants, acquiring such chains as El Torito and Chevys Fresh Mex.
This is a list of notable Mexican restaurants. Mexican cuisine is primarily a fusion of indigenous Mesoamerican cooking with European, especially Spanish , elements added after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in the 16th century.
Another origin was the founding of Acapulco Mexican Restaurant and Cantina in 1960. In 1998, Acapulco became owned by the private equity firm Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co., [2] which expanded it into Real Mex Restaurants, acquiring El Torito, Chevy's Fresh Mex and other Mexican full-service chains. [3]
Taqueria Acapulco, a restaurant offering Mexican style street food, opened on March 11 at 107 N. College Ave., Suite 2, which was the former location of BloomingThai.. The restaurant is owned by ...
Jesús Zamora, a member of the state tourism council in Guerrero, where Acapulco is located, rebuilt part of his restaurant with fallen limbs and in four days had a section of it reopened.
First Señor Frog's Restaurant opened established 1971 in Mazatlan, Mexico Señor Frog's was founded in 1971 by Jesus Humberto "Chuy" Juarez and Carlos Anderson in Mazatlán, Mexico. The goal was to create a lively and casual dining atmosphere that would appeal to both locals and tourists.
Grace sold its restaurants in a leveraged buyout in 1986. The resulting firm, Restaurant Enterprises Group, Inc. (REGI), filed for bankruptcy in 1993. REGI was acquired out of bankruptcy in 1994 by Foodmaker, who renamed itself Family Restaurants, then Koo Koo Roo Enterprises, then Prandium. In 2000, Acapulco bought El Torito from Prandium. [3]
In Acapulco and Guerrero, sopes are unusually small in size, so they are called sopecitos instead, and are fried in the same oil used to fry seafood, which gives them a unique taste. Sopecitos are made of beans and salsa only; no other ingredients are added. In Oaxaca, sopes sometimes are prepared using chapulines (roasted grasshoppers) as topping.