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Show Thursday, June 26, 2008 Page 4 OREM TIMES tlC(bi WHO'S WHO A f J D WHAT'S HAPPENING H If : , 4 f . "v t : i ' i 1 -r -i t ' ' r 9 f S i ' ' ''''") ' 'ft 4 CATHY AILREDNorth County General managers Jose Cerritos left and Clint Wilson with the restaurant's mascot, a happy yellow chicken, are ready to welcome customers to the first Utah El Polio Loco opening today at HH . .S'laJe St. in Lehi. First El Polio Loco In Utah opens today Cathy Alfred NORTH CC''1T SV.tf A crazy yellow chicken about 4-fect 11-inches tall and occasionally with the giggles, will greet customers today at the grand opening of K Polio Loco in Lehi at Hunters Crossing. Cross-ing. Pronounced "el H)-yo LO-co." LO-co." the name of the quick-service quick-service restaurant means "the crazy chicken" in Spanish. It will be the first LI Polio Loco to open in Utah out of more than 400 across the North American Ameri-can continent. Located across from American Ameri-can Fork's The Meadows. Lehi's El Polio Loco is part of the Hunters Crossing retail complex with Lowe's. Costco and Walgreens. "I am so excited, the first LI Polio Loco in Utah is exciting." general manager Jose Cerritos. "1 think the best word to use is 'honored.' " said general manager Clint Wilson of his feelings about the opening. The two administrators, both California natives, hope to have a mariachi band to entertain en-tertain guests today. "We are going to try to make it as fun as possible because the theme of El Polio Loco is a fiesta," Wilson said. "We're very excited to provide pro-vide Utah a little taste of the South." The fare is authentic Mexican Mexi-can chicken that is farm raised without hormone additives, citrus marinated and flame-grilled. flame-grilled. El Polio Loco restaurants restau-rants recently received a healthy dining commendation in May from The National Restaurant Res-taurant Association for offering offer-ing menu choices that support healthier lifestyles. Sides of fresh vegetables, salads, beans, rice complement the entrees and provides a self-serve self-serve salsa bar with salsa made daily for patrons. Han and chur-ros chur-ros are also served along with kids meals and a Loco value menu being offered. The restaurant is colorfully color-fully decorated in contemporary contempo-rary Mexican with multiple textures, geometric shapes, natural wood and Aztec design elements. In contrast. El Polio Loco began in 1975 as a roadside chicken stand in Guasave. a small town on Mexico's Pacific Pa-cific coast. The stand soon expanded ex-panded and the owners opened 85 restaurants in 20 northern Mexico cities. El Polio Loco crossed the border in 1980 to Los Angeles and by 1991 had opened its El Polio Loco General managers: Jose Cerritos and Clint Wilson Location: 88 N. State St., Lehi, at Hunter's Crossing Lobby hours: Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Drive-through hours: Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m to 11 p.m. Web site: www.elpolloloco. com Contact: 801-766-1004 200th restaurant. Expansion plans w ere made in 2004 to increase the number of franchises fran-chises by 70 percent in five years. Sixteen El Polio Locos have opened in Arizona since 2005 and the same number including includ-ing the Lehi restaurant are planned in Utah with El Polio Locos in the process of being built next in St. George and Washington. As well as being first in the state, El Polio Loco in Lehi will be the first free-standing El Pol lo Loco to be closed Sundays. "It's a tough thing," Wilson said. "As far as the community commu-nity is concerned we want to respect the culture and the values of the majority of the people." Both Cerritos and Wilson are bilingual in Spanish and English, Eng-lish, as are many of the staff. More on El Polio Loco is at the restaurant's Web site: www .elpolloloco.com. Utah Valley Home Builders Assoc. debuts new Orem office Utah Valley Home Builders Build-ers Association held a grand opening of the organization's new offices in Orem on Tuesday Tues-day at 1443 W. 800 North, Suite 103. Lt. Gov. Gary Herbert, Her-bert, an Orem resident, was a guest speaker at the event. RACE. Boxing and ' Fitness opens R.A.G.E. Boxing and Fitness Fit-ness owners are planning a soft opening of their business on July 5. They are seeking experienced trainers, experienced experi-enced boxers and especially ju-jitsu instructors for the new studio. Body building, boxing, boot camps, karate, R.A.D. kids fitness, mixed martial arts, body sculpting, sports training, jazzercise and pilates will be taught there. More information on R.A.G.E., standing for Real Athletes Generate Energy, is available at 768-1456 or at 121 E. State Street in Lehi. Business for sale Sunrise Family Video, perhaps per-haps best known for its fight against Hollywood about editing motion pictures to make them family friendly, is for sale. Owner Ron Ra-fajko Ra-fajko is losing the lease on the location the video company compa-ny has had for decades, and has decided to sell the business. busi-ness. Sunrise patrons come from all over north Utah County, he said, but many are from American Fork and have expressed the desire to have the company remain in that city. The asking price is $60,000. Anyone interested may contact him at 420-8320. Orem agents honored Three Orem Farmers Insurance In-surance agents have been inducted into the Farmers' "Topper Club" of Farmers' top sales producers. Earning the honor are Brian Bri-an Morgan, Douglas Orton and Kyle Fuller. They have been recognized by Farmers Farm-ers for their outstanding sales achievements in 2007. For more information about Farmers, visit our Web site at www.farmers.com. 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