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05-NOV-2016 ©2016 Don Boyd

November 2016 - the original Pollo Tropical on Douglas Road and NW 7th Street in Miami

741 NW 37th Avenue, Miami, Florida view map


This original Pollo Tropical was opened in 1988 by brothers Larry and Stuart Harris. My co-workers in the admin office at Airside Ops at MIA and I drove over here numerous times in 1988 through the early 1990's at lunch time for a great quick lunch. It was the only Pollo Tropical at the time and the chicken was so good and I'm not a big chicken fan. We still get take out meals from Pollo Tropical in Miami Lakes which does a booming business that ties up traffic on Ludlam Road.

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Leighton 20-Apr-2021 21:58
Now, 141 locations in Florida, plus five licensed restaurants on college campuses, and 32 franchised locations throughout the Caribbean, Central America, South America, Puerto Rico, and Saint Croix.
Leighton 15-Sep-2017 21:55
Yes, they just closed the final six in Texas. That leaves Atlanta and Florida.
Guest 29-Aug-2017 19:00
They've suffered a lot of closures over the past six months, in TN and TX - also GA, I think. The parent company in Dallas - Fiesta - also owns the Texas Taco Cabana chain.

The stores in TX were usually dead. I went to it once.