Chi-Chi’s, the Mexican restaurant chain that closed 20 years in the past, is poised for a revival subsequent 12 months after Michael McDermott, the son of one of many founders, introduced a cope with Hormel Foods.
Under the settlement with Hormel, which owns the model’s emblems, Mr. McDermott will be capable of use the Chi-Chi’s identify on newly opened eating places in 2025.
In a information launch saying the deal, Mr. McDermott stated he had “fond reminiscences” of rising up in Chi-Chi’s eating places.
He credited his father with instilling in him “the fervour and dedication to pursue my very own profession within the restaurant trade.”
Mr. McDermott stated in an announcement on Friday that the brand new enterprise enterprise was “within the early phases of planning by securing funding” however shared that the primary two eating places to open shall be in Minnesota.
He didn’t make clear the place in Minnesota the websites could be or what number of eating places may in the end be opened beneath the revival.
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