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Chi-Chi’s, the Mexican restaurant chain that closed 20 years ago, is staging a comeback.
Hormel Foods, current owner of the Chi-Chi’s trademark, announced Tuesday it’s letting Michael McDermott, son of the chain’s co-founder, use the fabled name to reopen restaurants in 2025. Specific locations, menu items and designs weren’t immediately released.
Chi-Chi’s, started in Minnesota in 1975 by Marno McDermott and Green Bay Packers player Max McGee, would eventually expand to more than 200 locations.
However, the chain closed in 2004 following a hepatitis A outbreak at a Pittsburgh-area
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