CINCINNATI (WKRC) – A Mexican restaurant chain that when boasted 200 places throughout America will quickly reopen 20 years after chapter.
The last Chi-Chi’s Mexican Restaurant within the United States closed in 2004 after many years of the model altering possession. The firm was already approaching chapter when a hepatitis A outbreak in Pittsburgh was traced to a close-by Chi-Chi’s inexperienced onion provide, cementing the chain’s demise.
The model’s trademark was then bought by Outback Steakhouse for simply over $40 million. Just a few places continued to function in Germany and Belgium till 2022, and one other location operated in Vienna till 2024 (Google now says the situation is completely closed).
The model additionally survived by way of prepackaged meals at grocery shops, like salsa and tortillas, that are nonetheless out there.
The Hormel Foods Corporation introduced on Dec. 3 that it had reached an settlement with Michael McDermott, the son of Chi-Chi’s founder Marno McDermott, that might permit him to make use of the Chi-Chi’s trademark on a sequence of latest eating places which are set to open in 2025, based on a press launch.
“I nonetheless have fond recollections of rising up within the Chi-Chi’s eating places that my father constructed all through their time, instilling in me the eagerness and dedication to pursue my very own profession within the restaurant trade,” stated McDermott, who based Kona Grill and Rojo Mexican Grill.
“We have seen the influence our restaurant has had on people and households throughout the nation and consider there’s a robust alternative to carry the model again in a manner that resonates with as we speak’s client – an up to date eating expertise with the identical nice style and Mexican taste.”
The newly based Chi-Chi’s Restaurants LLC didn’t announce the place the brand new places would open, nor precisely when.
