{"id":296679,"date":"2026-05-02T14:47:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/296679\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T14:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:47:17","slug":"this-socal-fast-food-brand-is-now-selling-chicken-tenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/296679\/","title":{"rendered":"This SoCal Fast Food Brand Is Now Selling Chicken Tenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COSTA MESA, CA \u2014 El Pollo Loco has added chicken tenders to its menu, as of earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The Costa Mesa-based brand is selling its Loco Tenders for a limited time, El Pollo Loco announced April 23 in a news release. They will be available in classic and spicy, and will be sold in two-, three, or four-piece meals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve spent the last 50 years perfecting our fire-grilled chicken, and it\u2019s something we\u2019re proud of,\u201d Jill Adams, chief marketing officer of El Pollo Loco, said in the news release. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat expertise gives us the credibility and authority to try new menu innovations, whether that\u2019s in our flavor profiles or cooking style \u2014 or in the case of our new Loco Tenders \u2122 \u2014 both.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tenders are served with smoky and sweet Pollo Loco Sauce, creamy Baja Lime sauce or House Ranch.<\/p>\n<p>El Pollo Loco has over 500 restaurants across nine states \u2014 Arizona, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah and Washington \u2014 as well as licensed locations in the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COSTA MESA, CA \u2014 El Pollo Loco has added chicken tenders to its menu, as of earlier this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-296679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}