Chi-Chi's

Chi-Chi's

Product type	Tex-Mex restaurant chain (Europe) Mexican-style grocery items (United States)
Owner	unclear (European restaurant chain) MegaMex Foods (grocery items)
Country	Belgium (restaurant chain) United States (grocery items)
Introduced	1976; 48 years ago (1976) (as Mexican-food US restaurant)
Markets	Europe (restaurants) United States (grocery items)
Website	www.chichis.at (restaurants) www.salsas.com/chi-chis/ (grocery items)

Chi-Chi's
(North America)

The front of a shuttered Chi-Chi's restaurant in Alexandria, Virginia (c. 2007).
Company type	Private
Industry	Restaurants
Founded	August 1976; 48 years ago (1976-08) Richfield, Minnesota, U.S.
Defunct	September 18, 2004; 20 years ago (2004-09-18) (as restaurants in the U.S. and Canada)
Fate	Bankruptcy (as restaurants in the U.S. and Canada)
Products	Mexican food
Website	www.chichis.at

Chi-Chi's can either refer to a defunct Mexican food restaurant chain founded in the United States in 1976, which continued in Europe only as a single restaurant after the North American owner declared bankruptcy and folded in 2004, or to its namesake brand of Mexican food grocery products produced and marketed when the original North American restaurant chain owner sold the rights to use its name on said products in 1987.