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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Restaurants |
| Founded | 1995 in Winter Park, Florida |
| Founder | Brian Wheeler |
| Headquarters | Maitland, Florida, U.S. |
Number of locations | 91 |
Area served | Florida, North Carolina, Indiana |
Key people | James J. Greco CEO Louie Psallidas CFO |
Number of employees | 3,000 (2016) |
| Website | tijuanaflats |
| Footnotes / references [1] | |
Tijuana Flats Tex-Mex is a privately-held American restaurant chain serving Tex-Mex cuisine. It has over 91 locations (65 company owned and 26 franchised) throughout Florida, Alabama, Tennessee and North Carolina.[1] Tijuana Flats restaurants are fast-casual hybrids with fresh food, hot sauce bars, art murals and off-beat culture. Customers order at the front counter and are served after taking a seat.
The restaurant was founded in Winter Park, Florida, in 1995 by University of Central Florida graduate Brian Wheeler with US$20,000 in loans. The company had 18 locations before expanding out-of-state in 2004.
- ^ a b Ruggless, Ron (May 29, 2019). "Tijuana Flats names 3 new executives". Nations Restaurant News. Retrieved June 1, 2019.