Come spring, workers in the Atlanta Galleria will have another lunch option in the area. Pollo Tropical, a Miami-based quick-service restaurant chain that features Caribbean-style dishes such as grilled chicken, mojo pork and guava barbecue ribs, will open a freestanding restaurant at the Akers Mill Shopping Center on Cobb Parkway, just across Akers Mills Road from the Galleria.
The chain once had three restaurants in the Atlanta area in the 1990s, but all of the sites had closed by 1996, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle. A restaurant consultant told the paper that the menu was likely ahead of its time for the area.
“Atlanta was the first big market [Pollo Tropical] jumped to, and people had not developed the palate [for ethnic food] they have today,” said Harold Shumacher, the president of the restaurant consulting firm The Shumacher Group, according to the Business Chronicle.
The chain returned to the Atlanta area in August when it opened a location on Duluth Highway in Lawrenceville.
The menu includes sandwiches, wraps, salads, soups, family meals and kids’ meals. The chain also caters.
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