Pollo Tropical
Established in Miami in 1988, Pollo Tropical (which means Tropical Chicken in English) is a Caribbean-inspired fast food restaurant chain known for its grilled chicken and black beans and rice sides. Fiesta Restaurant Group owns the chain, which has roughly 140 locations in Florida, Georgia, Texas, and Latin-American countries. The chain has been trying out new business strategies, such as selling fried chicken. In addition, it has streamlined its operations, closing stores in Texas, to slow development. It announced that it had trouble managing the too fast growth it experienced and is now planning to open some new stores only in Florida.
Pollo Tropical
Qdoba
The main competitor of Chipotle, Qdoba, Inc. was founded in Denver. The popularity of this Mexican-cuisine fast food chain was from the fact that it offered healthy food, replaced animal fat with vegetable oil and used more fresh vegetables and herbs whenever possible. It wasn’t super expensive as well. Jack in the Box previously owned Qdoba before it sold the chain to Apolla Global for $305 million. This means Apollo bought all 700 Qdoba locations, which operate in 47 states. Although Qdoba has already gone through several rounds of closures of underperforming stores, it is expected that closures will continue in 2020.
Qdoba
