NATIONWIDE — The parent company of Taco Cabana and Pollo Tropical is shuttering 30 company-owned restaurants as it prepares to “relaunch” both brands.
- 10 locations closed in October of last year
- Several Texas locations could be remade into Taco Cabanas
Fiesta Restaurant Group announced Monday that it will close 30 Pollo Tropical restaurants in North Texas, Austin and Nashville.
Five of the locations in Texas could be rebranded as Taco Cabanas.
With the closures, Fiesta will own 19 Pollo Tropicals outside of Florida, including 13 in Atlanta and six in South Texas.
“Fiesta’s recent growth initiatives diverted resources from our core markets and some amount of renewal is required to restore momentum in these markets,” Fiesta’s president and CEO Richard Stockinger said in a prepared statement.
“While the decision to close restaurants is never easy, we believe it is vital to focus the company’s resources and efforts on markets and locations that have proven successful for our brands.”
This isn’t Pollo Tropical’s first round of closures in the past year. Last October, they closed 8 area locations.