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Pollo Tropical

2016 Top 500 restaurant chains

 Jun. 21, 2016

More than half of the restaurant industry’s $491 billion in sales come from the Top 500 chains. And these giants grew at a modestly stronger rate, both in terms of sales and store counts, than the industry overall. Restaurant Business focused on the leading 250 performers to identify trends for our first-ever special report delivering lessons from Technomic’s annual Top 500 Chain Restaurant Report. This special package includes lessons for all operators from the largest chains by segment, menu category and more.

'For sale' sign gone, Taco Cabana and Pollo Tropical get new CEO

 By Peter Romeo on Feb. 27, 2017

Parent company Fiesta Restaurant Group has reached into fine-dining for its new chief.

Financing

This week’s 6 head-spinning moments: Sales therapies

By Peter Romeo on May 12, 2017

Cheesecake Factory says it has a second fast-casual venture in the works, Dunkin' convenes a workforce Woodstock, Noodles clears the table and McDonald's touts its merits as a first job.

Pollo Tropical

Jun. 11, 2017

Differentiates itself from other chicken chains with tropical flavors

Financing

Pollo Tropical calls it quits in Texas

By Peter Romeo on Sep. 15, 2017

The chain's parent company has decided not to reopen stores that were closed by Hurricane Harvey.

Financing

Traffic plummets at Taco Cabana, Pollo Tropical

By Peter Romeo on Nov. 06, 2017

The chains' declines deepened their parent's losses to $8.5 million for the third quarter.

Operations

Domino’s XXX option and 4 other head-spinning developments

By Peter Romeo on Mar. 01, 2018

Even the pizza chain was startled by the new way that's been blazed to order a pie. And that's only one of the extreme moves that turned heads this week.

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