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Pollo Campero is spreading its wings

By Sergio De Leon
Associated Press

Guatemalan fast-food chicken giant Pollo Campero said Wednesday it will open a franchise in Shanghai later this year as part of a massive expansion plan to eventually establish 600 restaurants in China and Indonesia.

A national icon in this country and a culinary favorite through much of the rest of Central America as well as parts of Mexico, Pollo Campero opened a restaurant to intense fanfare and hours-long lines in Los Angeles in 2002 and now has 22 U.S. restaurants there and in Houston, Dallas, Washington and New York.

The chain started quickly in the United States because of the large number of migrants from Guatemala and elsewhere in Central America living there who knew and loved the brand. What remains to be seen, however, is whether Pollo Campero can conquer an international market where Central America has little cultural influence.

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