Portillo's Restaurants

Portillo's Restaurant Group, Inc.

Trade name	Portillo's
Company type	Public
Traded as	Nasdaq: PTLO
Industry	Restaurants
Genre	Fast casual
Founded	April 9, 1963; 61 years ago (1963-04-09) in Villa Park, Illinois[1]
Founder	Dick Portillo
Headquarters	Oak Brook, Illinois, United States
Number of locations	86
Key people	Michael Osanloo (CEO)
Products	Hot dogs Maxwell Street Polish Italian beef chicken sandwiches hamburgers ribs French fries onion rings salads soft drinks soft serves milkshakes
Revenue	US$517 million (2021)[2]
Owner	Berkshire Partners (72%)
Number of employees	About 6,000[3]
Website	portillos.com

Portillo's Restaurant Group, Inc.^[4] is an American fast casual restaurant chain based in the Chicago area that specializes in serving Chicago-style food such as hot dogs, Maxwell Street Polish, and Italian beef. The company was founded by Dick Portillo on April 9, 1963, in Villa Park, Illinois, under the name "The Dog House".

In addition to 46 locations in the Chicago metropolitan area and Northern Illinois, the chain also has six locations each in the Phoenix metropolitan area and the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex; four locations each in central Illinois and the Indianapolis metropolitan area; three locations each in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area,Tampa metropolitan area, and Greater Orlando; two locations each in the Milwaukee metropolitan area, Madison metropolitan area, Metro Detroit, and Southern California; and one location each in the South Bend metropolitan area, Fort Wayne, the Quad Cities, and Tucson.