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February 27, 2003

Guatemalan chicken chain takes on U.S.

  • The opening of Pollo Campero's first U.S. restaurant in downtown Los Angeles last April sparked a fast-food frenzy not seen since the first Moscow McDonald's opened its doors in the 1980s.
    • By WILL WEISSERT
    Associated Press Writer

    GUATEMALA CITY -- Standing in line at the airport, Marco Aurilia could almost hear his family and friends' stomachs growling.

    The 44-year-old electrician knew that a five-hour plane ride away in North Hollywood, Calif., two generations of illegal Guatemalan immigrants had gathered and that neighbors from El Salvador had dropped by bearing Budweiser and black beans. Everyone was waiting to devour the $100 of fried chicken from Pollo Campero he and his three sons were bringing.


     
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