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Originally Posted by Keefelane66
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a Pollo Tropical. I consider it fresh cooked not fried fast food. Closest place to get my fix is Orlando Area
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Years before we moved to The Villages, we'd come down to Florida on vacation. This often involved going to Miami and south into the Keys to snorkel. We'd always stop at ZooMiami on the way and eat at the Pollo Tropical and though their lean, grilled chicken was just about the best fast food you could buy. Crispy, moist, tasty and nearly salt-free. Yum! The only things close to it were similarly-cooked chick at Ya-Ya's Chicken in Michigan or El Pollo Loco in Arizona.
We moved here several years ago and have tried Pollo Tropical locations a few times around Orlando and found the chicken to nearly always be tiny pieces of greasy chicken. I don't know if those particular locations we tried just aren't up to the national standards or if ZooMiami was just a cut above (much how I feel the Sonny's BBQ in Lake Sumter is better than any other Sonny's location I've ever been to) or if the whole chain has just gone downhill.
That said, if another fast food chain were to come to the area, I would like it to be something other than the chains currently represented, if just for the variety.