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Originally Posted by cheermomof4girls

Found this today:

Burrito chain is rolling out new stores in San Antonio - San Antonio Business Journal:

This is great news! One is slated for the Stone Ridge Market on Evans/281. That's right around the corner. This center is really getting some nice dining options, both local and national. And the center is probably not even half full.

Other 2 locations are Alamo Ranch and Plaza del Norte.

[brenty13]

Originally Posted by Willsatx

Thanks for the reviews I will stay away.

Re: Mr. Cod. You probably should try it at least once. Just because I was not crazy about them doesn't mean you shouldn't try it. Somebody likes Mr. Cod otherwise they wouldn't still be open.

Try 'em, you might like it!

[HillCountryHotRodMan]

That's true. Hell, they may be open still years from now. I truly am surprised they have been open for as long as they have been.

[majormadmax]

It appears BJ's Restaurant and Brewhouse (http://www.bjsrestaurants.com/locationdetail.aspx?lcID=113 - broken link) in Alamo Ranch has opened...

[GWhopper]

Originally Posted by cheermomof4girls

Found this today:

Burrito chain is rolling out new stores in San Antonio - San Antonio Business Journal:

Ate at Freebirds a lot in Austin. I still think Habenero Grill is better, even though the owner told me he stole his idea from them, just as McDonald's did for the Chipotle Grill. Just an opinion. Never ate at the one on Huebner.

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Originally Posted by GWhopper

Ate at Freebirds a lot in Austin. I still think Habenero Grill is better, even though the owner told me he stole his idea from them, just as McDonald's did for the Chipotle Grill. Just an opinion. Never ate at the one on Huebner.

McDonald's didn't steal the idea from Chipotle, they bought Chipotle.

[HillCountryHotRodMan]

Originally Posted by 713 to 210

McDonald's didn't steal the idea from Chipotle, they bought Chipotle.

Read his post again....

Anyways, I prefer Habanero grill too.

[Willsatx]

Originally Posted by brenty13

Re: Mr. Cod. You probably should try it at least once. Just because I was not crazy about them doesn't mean you shouldn't try it. Somebody likes Mr. Cod otherwise they wouldn't still be open.

Try 'em, you might like it!

I might try it for kicks, if I dont like it will blame it on you.

[jwebtx]

Originally Posted by HillCountryHotRodMan

Read his post again....

Anyways, I prefer Habanero grill too.

He said McDonald's stole the idea from Freebirds for use with Chipolte. Chipolte was in operation, with the same concept, roughly 5 years before McDonalds invested.

Worse is the news article linked above. They inaccurately wrote, "The first Freebirds opened in 1991 in College Station." That is an absolute myth. The 1st Freebirds opened in Santa Barbara, CA several years earlier. 1 minute of due diligence by the Editor could have prevented that inaccurate statement.

While i'm on a roll, add me to the list of people that don't care for Habanero. [LEFT]
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Originally Posted by jwebtx

Worse is the news article linked above. They inaccurately wrote, "The first Freebirds opened in 1991 in College Station." That is an absolute myth. The 1st Freebirds opened in Santa Barbara, CA several years earlier. 1 minute of due diligence by the Editor could have prevented that inaccurate statement.

Yep, most people don't know the original was in Callie, probably b/c it never expanded like the model that started in College Station. Here is a short history:

From Wikipedia -

The Freebirds concept was created by Mark Orfalea and Pierre Dube in 1987, when they opened the first Freebirds World Burrito in Isla Vista, California, a block from the University of California, Santa Barbara campus.[1] When the partners decided to open a second location, they looked at the twenty largest college towns in the US, eventually choosing College Station, Texas, home of Texas A&M University. They opened the second Freebirds, called El Freebirds Burrito and Taco Bar, in 1991 in the Northgate shopping district, a commercial district located across the street from the campus in a central hub of activity for both students and residents with heavy foot traffic. In 1994, Dube bought out his partner, though Orfalea retained the original Isla Vista location and a license to continue operating under the Freebirds name there. Dube then opened a second location in College Station, then a third. He later expanded the restaurant to multiple locations across Texas, including Dallas, Houston, and Austin.[2]
By 2007, the restaurant chain had 19 locations around Texas. On July 25, 2007, Dube sold the chain to Tavistock Group, though its Tavistock Restaurants division. At the time of the sale, Tavistock stated that it would be opening an additional 40 Freebirds restaurants across the southwestern United States.[3] In addition to adding more Texas locations, Tavistock expanded the restaurant chain into neighboring state Oklahoma with the opening of a location in Norman, Oklahoma in January 2008.[4][5][6] As of April 2010, the chain has expanded to 31 locations, and stated that it would have 52 open by the end of 2010.