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It's Creepy Abandoned Chi Chis, and it keeps track of ... well, Chi Chis restaurants that have been abandoned.
You know, I went to Chi Chis a lot in the 1980s with friends of mine, and I didn't mind it at all. Of course, this was back when I was in my early 20s and didn't really have an appreciation for good food and just ate a lot of junk food and drank a lot. Are there still Chi Chis restaurants? I see their salsa in the supermarket all the time.
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11-04-2007 @1:16PM cara said... where is this abandoned chi chis?
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11-03-2007 @7:48PM slashfood_com said... They all closed in 2003 following a Hepatitis outbreak. They still sell bottled foods under their brand, though. Near me, the Findlay, Ohio Chi-Chi's was renovated into an independent Mexican restaurant (looking almost identical to before), and the Bowling Green, Ohio restaurant is completely unchanged from the outside. It's right off the side of a highway and still looks like it's open, except that it's, well.. not.
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11-03-2007 @6:41PM Amanda said... I'm pretty sure they all disappeared after that Hep A outbreak a few years ago.
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11-04-2007 @2:59PM DK said... I always thought that the name was sooooo stupid - in slang (Spanish) chi chi s means tits...
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11-03-2007 @8:17PM Big John said... The one in Livonia, Michigan at last check was still abandoned. It was a horrible location for a restaurant with horrible food.
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11-03-2007 @10:45PM Angie said... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi-Chi's
Apparently they still operate in Luxembourg and Belgium.. why?
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11-04-2007 @1:27AM Bob Pedersen said... For years, it was a joke in my family that my presence on a trip to Chi-Chi's guaranteed a birthday celebration at a nearby table, and often even worked at other restaurants with similar practices. Thankfully, the effect has faded.
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11-04-2007 @10:06PM Matthew said... A rather large Chi Chi's in Richfield, MN became this well-reviewed purveyor of dim sum: http://www.jun-bo.com/
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11-04-2007 @2:05PM Evan Doyle said... In Marion, Indiana, our Chi-Chi's was renovated into a Pizza Hut Italian Bistro/WingStreet. It's basically a hybrid Pizza Hut/sports bar with bad italian food (most of it, anyways).
Chi-Chi's did have the best fried ice cream ever. I would love to have some of that stuff again.
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11-04-2007 @4:47PM Evan Doyle said... In Marion, Indiana, our Chi-Chi's was renovated into a Pizza Hut Italian Bistro/WingStreet. It's basically a hybrid Pizza Hut/sports bar with bad italian food (most of it, anyways).
Chi-Chi's did have the best fried ice cream ever. I would love to have some of that stuff again.
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11-04-2007 @3:07PM why not the LS2/LS7? said... Hmm. Funny to see the Miller Road, Flint location empty. Isn't it right next to a busy Fuddruckers (and maybe Bennigans) and such?
Do people just drive past an abandoned, huge Chi-Chis to get to Fuddruckers?
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11-04-2007 @3:55PM kassie said... The chi-chi's in Richfield, MN is now a huge Chinese Restaurant.
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11-04-2007 @11:04PM evan said... I remember liking it in the late 80s because it had the only decent salsa of the chain places. But, Hep A is good too if you aren't really interested in keeping the place open.
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11-05-2007 @10:19AM Bonnie said... Ah, such fond memories...we'd go to Chi-Chi's on the rare occasions we would get out of our tiny rural town and into such sophisticated urban settings as Grand Forks, ND, usually for a school trip or the yearly piano contests at UND. Good times. We were really something, then boy howdy! My friend Patrick named his poodle Chi Chi.
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11-05-2007 @1:59PM kevjohn said... that abandoned chilis blogspot site reminds me of the creepy abandoned strip mall site I saw last year. are abandoned gathering spots another indicator that the fabric of our society is unraveling?
if so, good. :)
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11-07-2007 @3:22PM Jeff said... I worked at a Chi-Chi's in Cincinnati during my formative youth years and remember greasy floors, awful uniforms, and dishwashers smoking pot out back by the trash.
I proposed to my wife at a Chi-Chi's in Indiana. At the time, it was the only cheap and half way decent margarita in town.
I don't miss the food or the restaurant, but I do miss the drinks.
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