“Texas is an amazing market, and I can’t wait for our fans there to see this showstopper of a restaurant,” Osanloo said in March 2022. “We’ve had fans asking us to bring a brick-and-mortar restaurant there for years. We’re investing in the right people and the right real estate to make this restaurant a home run for them.”
In October 2021, Osanloo gave interviews to both Forbes and the Chicago Tribune, saying his company would be opening a restaurant"in a town near Frisco next year." The desire to bring this Chicago-based restaurant has been around for quite a while. There is a public group on Facebook called"Portillo's wanted in DFW" that was created in January 2009, and as of February 2023, it had more than 3,900 members. That is more than triple what it had less than one year ago .
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