Chi Chi's

[d_fife]

here is the chi chi's in ledgewood new jersey

from http://www.siteride.com/srpl/p_snapshot.pl?lm=listing&resbox=1140397615&subNum=50208000184

[d_fife]

here is a closed chi chi's in johnson city ny (Across the oakdale mall)

[Ameskid]

My Chi-Chi's was demolished and replaced by a Smokey Bones. SB is so much better! I am pretty sure that they kept the original post and/or sign, and just repainted it.

[Caldor1999]

were there any chi chi's inm westchster county ny or anywere near hear and dose anyone have any pics of one idd liek to see one

[d_fife]

there used to be ones in framington and west springfield mass

[patk]

so thats y chi chi's closed the one by me is now a Walgreens :goodidea:

[EddieJ1984]

The old Chi Chi's by Franklin Mills here in philly was on fire Jan 24th.
I don't think the cause of it has been reported yet.
heres a picture of it on fire from 6abc WPVI's website

And here's a pic I took today of what remains.

[Pikapower]

The Chi-Chi's on Maple road in Amherst, NY near North Bailey Ave. was knocked down for an IHOP.

[zonemad96]

Their is a used to be a restaurant in Westminster, MD that completely ripped off the Chi Chi's logo.

[TheFugitive]

Chi Chi's is gone and the name Chi Chi's Means Boobs in Spanish:insane: i have no idea why someone would name it Boobs any way the closed in they filed for ch11 in 2003 and closed fro good in sep 2004 and im not suprised eather cause of all the Law sutes they got agest them beacuse of the hepatitis outbreak lol that would really bring a Chain out of bizz im just luckey i never ate there

I can explain.  My brother worked at one when they first opened.  One of their original owners was
Max McGee, former Green Bay Packers wide receiver, and MVP of Super Bowl I.  Mrs. McGee apparently
had some very large breasts, and McGee apparently decided based on that to go with the name Chi-Chi's.

Max McGee sadly passed away a few years ago when he fell while trying to clear snow off the roof of his home.

[Hudsons81]

This was the former Chi-Chi's in Southgate, Michigan. It lasted from the 1980's until 2003, when it was shuttered during a series of closures leading up to the chain's physical retail demise the following year. Later Malarkey's, it became Rosie O'Grady's in early 2014. Photo courtesy of the Downriver Things Flickr page.

[TheFugitive]

When I lived at home I shared a room with my brother.  He worked at Chi Chi's at the time.

After about a year of working in the Chi Chi's kitchen my brother began to actually
SMELL like a burrito.  That scent got into his clothes, into his hair, into his bloodstream...
even after changing and showering he smelled like a burrito!  He'd lift weights and start
to sweat....burrito!  It was really, really strange.

They apparently used some very powerful spices and seasonings that lingered on.
He had been working someplace else as a bartender for about six months before
the smell completely went away.

[TheFugitive]

I was talking to my brother the other day and he reminded me of this funny story from his days of working at ChiChi's.

As you would expect in a Mexican restaurant they used to order big plastic bags of pre-shredded lettuce to cut down on their prep time.  My brother was working in the kitchen when someone on the other side of the kitchen asked him to get him a bag of lettuce.

My brother took one out of the cooler and tossed it to him.  Unfortunately he tossed it a bit too high and it went up and made contact with a ceiling fan.

The bag immediately burst and the fan sent shredded lettuce flying all over the kitchen.

My brother was written-up by the shift manager for this.  He showed me a copy of the write-up he received.  What follows is a very accurate paraphrase.

"Bill threw a f***ing bag of f***ing lettuce into the f***ing ceiling fan in the middle of f***ing dinner rush.  It f***ing exploded and blew f***ing lettuce all over the f***ing kitchen.  It f***ing sucked."

I have to presume the guy meant it as a joke as I could not imagine he'd actually put something with all of those F-bombs into my brother's personnel file.