Pollo Campero
12404 Park Central Dr, Ste 250, Dallas, TX 75251
Approximately 95-100% of the Pollo Campero restaurant locations are linked in the Atlas Research Platform.
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Pollo Campero is a Dallas, Texas fast casual chicken restaurant brand headquartered at 12404 Park Central Dr, Suite 250. The Gutiérrez family opened the first official Pollo Campero restaurant in Guatemala on April 28, 1971, building a Central American fried-and-grilled chicken brand under Corporación Multi Inversiones before exporting the concept abroad. U.S. expansion began with a Los Angeles opening in 2002, and Campero later established its international headquarters in Dallas to support American development, franchising and operations. Pollo Campero is the concept, and the company operates as its franchisor with nearly all locations franchised to local owner-operators. U.S. restaurants span multi-state markets from the West Coast and South to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, giving the brand a broad national footprint beyond its Central American roots. Restaurants are fast casual and serve breakfast, lunch and dinner with a chicken-led menu of fried and grilled chicken, sandwiches, empanadas, bowls and sides rooted in Guatemalan flavors. Typical units seat about 80 guests in roughly 1,500 square feet.
Pollo Campero Growth History
Pollo Campero Vector Profile
RestaurantData’s selected U.S. development trail for Pollo Campero begins with a September 2002 report in Houston, Texas. Early reports across several states lead into a wider combined history, with a concentration of selected location evidence in 2022–2026.
For sales teams and investors, these historical windows help compare current development with earlier activity and place individual locations within the brand’s longer expansion history.
Four selected historical windows
- 2002–2009
Early U.S. trail
5–9 opening signals5+ states with signals
- 2010–2013
Wider house-report reach
5–9 opening signals5+ states with signals
- 2014–2021
Combined location history
40+ opening signals10+ states with signals
- 2022–2026
Recent combined activity
70+ opening signals15+ states with signals
Pollo Campero: development arc
Selected location history and opening signals, 2002–2026.
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Vector readout: The 2014–2021 combined window contains 40+ opening signals across 10+ states, followed by 70+ opening signals across 15+ states in 2022–2026.
The 2026 segment is partial, and the recent source mix should be considered when comparing historical windows.
RestaurantData source trail: Archived RestaurantData house reports provide the development-report trail. Supporting restaurant-location research contributes researched opening-year attributes to the dotted segment. A development report year and an opening year can differ for the same location.
Restaurant location examples along the expansion arc
- 2003Development report year
Pollo Campero
496 Elden St
Herndon, VA 20170
Fairfax County - 2010Development report year
Pollo Campero
3389 Buford Hwy NE
Atlanta, GA 30329
DeKalb County - 2015Researched opening year
Pollo Campero
12885 Josey Ln
Farmers Branch, TX 75234
Dallas County - 2018Researched opening year
Pollo Campero
25 State St
Lynn, MA 01901
Essex County - 2024Researched opening year
Pollo Campero
1022 Riverview Rd
Rock Hill, SC 29732
York County - 2026Researched opening year
Pollo Campero
321 W Jericho Turnpike
Huntington, NY 11743
Suffolk County
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Source: RestaurantData archived U.S. development reports and supporting restaurant-location research. Headquarters, franchisee offices, unrelated namesakes, renovations, transfers and unresolved addresses are excluded from the plotted selection. Signal counts of 10 or more are rounded down to tens; counts from 5 to 9 use that range. State bands of 5 or more are rounded down to multiples of 5. Smaller counts are shown directly. The District of Columbia is identified separately when present.
The 2026 segment is partial, and the recent source mix should be considered when comparing historical windows. Development reports may describe planned restaurants. The six examples use the date basis shown on each card. A report year is not necessarily an opening year, and location verification dates are not used as opening dates. Historical locations may have closed.
Markers identify years with selected dated evidence; connecting lines are illustrative between those years. Coverage varies across jurisdictions and years. These selections do not represent complete opening totals, current operating units or net growth. Gaps alone do not establish a pause or contraction.
Last updated November 2026.
Read the Restaurant Vector™ overview for the research method and source definitions.
Historical reference: Pollo Campero in the 2009 Top 122 historical report on RestaurantChains.net.
For additional historical addresses and source details, see the Pollo Campero location archive on RestaurantChains.net.
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