Chi-Chi's

Chi-Chi's
(North America)
	The front of a shuttered Chi-Chi's restaurant in Alexandria, Virginia (c. 2007).
Company type	Private
Industry	Restaurants
Founded	1975; Richfield, Minnesota, U.S.;
Defunct	September 18, 2004 (restaurant chain in the U.S. and Canada)
Fate	Closed (as restaurant chain in the U.S. and Canada)
Products	Mexican food

Chi-Chi's
Product type	Tex-Mex restaurant chain (Europe, defunct; United States(relaunched)); Mexican-style grocery items (United States);
Owner	Unknown (European restaurant chain); MegaMex Foods (grocery items); Unknown (United States restaurant);
Country	Belgium (restaurant chain); United States (grocery items, restaurant);
Introduced	1976 (as Mexican-food US restaurant)
Markets	Europe (restaurants, defunct); United States (grocery items, restaurant);
Website	chichisrestaurants.com (restaurant); www.salsas.com/chi-chis/ (grocery items);

Chi-Chi's is a brand of Mexican food grocery products produced and marketed in North America. It was originally the name of an American chain of Mexican restaurants that was founded in 1975 by Marno McDermott and former Green Bay Packers player Max McGee. The owners sold the rights to use the brand's name on packaged grocery products beginning in 1987. The name was also used by a former European franchise through 2024 when its last location closed in Austria.

Following a hepatitis A outbreak in 2003 at a restaurant location near Pittsburgh, the American chain filed for bankruptcy. Its remaining locations were purchased by Outback Steakhouse in 2004, which were either rebranded or sold off. In 2025, Michael McDermott, son of co-founder Marno McDermott, opened a new restaurant in Minnesota with plans to revive the American chain.