This story has been updated.
Decatur, GA — Chando’s Tacos is expecting to open in mid-September in downtown Decatur.
In February 2022, Chando’s Tacos announced the opening of its food truck in Decatur. The restaurant received its business license in March 2023, but it has taken some time for it to open. Owner Lisandro “Chando” Madrigal said that the building and planning review took a while, but “we are good now.”
“Once we got that handled, things got complicated for us in California, and we decided to stabilize things out here before overextending ourselves,” Madrigal said.
Chando’s Tacos has a few locations in California and recently decided to permanently close a location in the Sacramento, California, area, according to The Sacramento Bee.
After about three years of business, the restaurant in Citrus Heights, a city near Sacramento, will serve its final customers on Monday. The closure is attributed to “sales not being as peach as they once were” and an expired lease. He wanted to make clear: It wasn’t a sinking ship, The Sacramento Bee reported on Aug. 31.
Decatur Business Development Manager Shirley Baylis said she checked with the city’s permitting department weekly on the application’s status.
“They had issues applying with the county watershed management and I assisted them in getting to the right person for that permit,” Baylis said. “Our building and fire inspectors and I met with Chando and his contractor to provide them a list of items that needed to be corrected in order to do finals. Once everything was done correctly, and they got final inspection they were free to move forward with getting their business license.”
Some concerns had been raised during Decatur Downtown Development Authority meetings about staffing for Chando’s Tacos, but Madrigal said staffing hadn’t been much of an issue in Decatur compared to his Buckhead location.
“There seems to be more accessible workforce in Decatur,” he…
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