re: How many Mexican restaurants are in your town?

Talk to anyone in the restaurant industry and they will tell you why. Ingredient list is extremely short. Think about it. Rice, beans, cheese, tortillas, lettuce tomato, protein. Ingredients aren’t expensive. Recipes are easy to cook with basic kitchen equipment. You can build out the interior with shite that can be bought at a roadside flea market. Mark up on the liquor drinks is insane.

Lots of them
Good ones? None

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I live in Gwinnett County. There are 412 within ten minutes of me.

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And more coming soon LOL.


We do not have a huge Hispanic population in my area, around 3% compared to Atlanta at about 10%. Largely because jobs in this area require extensive background checks (Fort Gordon, Savannah River Site and the VA complex) and drive much of the construction market. Back when construction contractors would be dumb enough to hire obvious illegal immigrants they couldn't do so around here because there just weren't that many. Now they have enough paperwork to get by for long periods but the boom time never really hit the CSRA. That said for every sitdown restaurant in the area there are 3 Mexican restaurants LOL. Hispaninc population is so low in the area that all but the manager and owner of the place will most likely be anglo or black....with a healthy dose of Asians as many Vietnamese were relocated to the area at the end of the war.

To be honest its a pain in the arse. I have been in the area for most of the last 20 years discounting the 8 years we were overseas. We came here from Athens LOL. I could and can go to Home Depot in Athens and pick up 20 men for the day....I have NEVER seen a single Hispanic day laborer at any HD or Lowes in the CSRA. Not once. I have actually gone to Athens and back to pick up day labor. Its a pain in the arse.

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There are probably 25-30 Messican restaurants in the Alexandria, Pineville, Ball, Deville area.

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It's crazy. I forget about some of them. Looks like construction on the new El Paso has restarted.

We have a town of about 4500 people and we have 3 mexican places and 2 dollar generals, one of em is the fancy dg market. I remember back in the 80's, the only place to go get Mexican was at El Chico by the Metrocenter Mall. Go eat lunch there and go by Service Merchandise and then the mall.

I travel around Alabama a lot on business. I’ve noticed most small towns have an outsized amount of Mexican restaurants, more than a small town should be able to support on a level that would allow them all to turn a profit.

I don’t know if it’s true or not, but I’ve been told by a LEO neighbor that many such Mexican restaurants are fronts to launder Cartel money.

I’m in Houston. I’m assuming this question is not intended for me

For the Madisonville-Mandeville-Covington triangle, I think around 147.

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Google AI says 1428 restaurants in Houston

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Grok AI says 2,362 Mexican restaurants in Houston