MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota-born Mexican restaurant chain CHI-CHI's is returning 20 years after ending its “celebration of meals.”
CHI-CHI's introduced Wednesday new settlement has been reached with Hormel Meals of Minnesota, which has owned the restaurant's logos since 1987.
The deal provides Michael McDermott, son of CHI-CHI co-founder Marno McDermott, use of the restaurant's title in bodily places opening in 2025.
CHI-CHI's was based in 1975 by Marno McDermott and former Inexperienced Bay packer Max McGee, and its first location opened in Richfield in 1976. At one level, there have been greater than 200 places nationwide.
Possession modified fingers a number of instances over the following three many years, and the franchise's demise got here in 2004 with the double blow of chapter and a hepatitis A outbreak at one among its places close to Pittsburgh, which killed 4 folks and sickened greater than 600 others.
The house owners of Outback Steakhouse spent thousands and thousands to buy and convert dozens of their places into their very own household of eating places.
Michael McDermott, who additionally co-owns the Kona Grill and Rojo Mexican Grill chains, says he has “fond recollections” of the franchise his father helped construct.
“We've seen the impression our restaurant has had on folks and households throughout the nation and consider there’s a nice alternative to deliver again the model in a method that resonates with at this time's client: an up to date eating expertise with the identical nice style and Mexican taste,” mentioned Michael McDermott.
There isn’t any phrase but on the place the places will likely be or if he’ll really return to his dwelling state of Minnesota.