CHICKEN BROTHERS: SITUATION IN BREAKING BAD AND CURIOSITIES - DUDAS - 2025

Los Pollos Hermanos are a chain of fast food restaurants located in the southeastern United States and specialized in fried chicken, according to the universe of the television series Breaking Bad. They were founded by Gustavo Fring and his friend, Max Arciniega.

It should be noted that this restaurant is an essential part of the development of encounters and appearances of important characters during the Breaking Bad series, among which are Walter White, the cousins, Mike Ehrmantraut and even Walter's brother-in-law, Hank Schrader.

Los Pollos Hermanos was subsidized by the German conglomerate Madrigal Electromotive, which had a significant amount of restaurant shares. This restaurant had two main purposes: to serve as a front for the real Fring business (the production and distribution of drugs) and to allow the laundering of the money obtained.

In the series, if Fring wanted to meet one of his associates, either at the restaurant or some other place related to it, he would send a message with the word "Chickens."

Situation in

Background

Gus Fring was the owner of restaurants located in the southeastern United States, specifically in Albuquerque and part of Nevada. Employees, those not related to the drug business, had to serve their customers with the message: "Los Pollos Hermanos, where something delicious is always cooking."

However, the restaurant concept was created to be a cover for the core business - the manufacture of methamphetamine.

It was then that the alliance between Gus and his friend Max Arciniega, the “brothers” of Pollos Hermanos, was established. Fring would take care of the business and Max, thanks to his background in chemistry, would make the drug.

From there the events can be summarized as follows (these occurred in the episode "Brothers"):

-Fring and Arciniega founded restaurants in Mexico under the name "Los Pollos."

-Arciniega manufactured the recipe for the production of methamphetamine; thus he could distribute the drug among different potential clients.

-In view of the success of drug trafficking, the leader of the Mexican drug cartel, Don Eladio, invited them to his mansion.

-Fring tried to convince Don Eladio to include methamphetamine in the business. However, the leader saw the appearance of the drug as a threat, for which he assassinated Arciniega in front of Gus.

-Gus later moved to the United States and founded the Max Arciniega fellowship, in order to find a new talent for making methamphetamine.

-Years later, and thanks to the consolidation of the business, Gus returned to meet Don Eladio and forget the past. However, both he and his associates were killed by a poisoned tequila bottle that Gus had prepared.

Pollos Hermanos and Walter White

During the third season, Walter begins to work for Gus in what would become "the farm" or chicken farm, where they would manufacture the drug. At this point, blue methamphetamine was already well known and popular with consumers.

It should be noted that the transfer of the drug, after packaging it, was done by means of the mixtures to fry the fried chicken; thus the distribution was guaranteed.

The plot got even more complicated in season four, as the anti-drug division managed to find an important clue at the crime scene of Gale Boettcher, a chemist who studied with the Max Arciniega scholarship and who worked for a short time as Walter's assistant..

In Gale's apartment, Hank discovered a Los Pollos Hermanos napkin, thus inferring the connection between Gale (who was vegan) and Gus. In turn, other members of the cartel know that Walter is working with Gus, so they begin to sabotage the distribution of the drug.

Little by little, Hank's investigation closes in on Gus's intentions to get rid of the police, despite having a model citizen image. It is in the fifth season when the Los Pollos Hermanos restaurant falls out of favor and is removed from the Madrigal Electromotive business.

Better call saul

The Breaking Bad prequel, Better Call Saul (released in 2015) recounts the events that happened before Jimmy McGill became the famous lawyer, Saul Goodman.

Due to this, there have been appearances of several characters belonging to the universe of Breakin Bad and it is expected that this year Gus and Los Pollos Hermanos will do the same.

Does it exist in reality?

Initially, Los Pollos Hermanos corresponds to the fictitious fast food chain. In fact, the Twisters restaurant, located in Albuquerque, was the space used for the production of the series.

However, in March of last year, and thanks to the promotion of the new season of Better Call Saul, the first Los Pollos Hermanos headquarters opened, located in Austin, Texas.

Fans who attended the opening affirmed that the facilities are an exact replica seen on television, including the menu. However, despite the furor it caused among the fans, it is still unknown if more franchises will open in the country.

Restaurant locations

According to Breaking Bad, Los Pollos Hermanos are distributed in the following cities:

-Alamogordo.

-Alburquerque (main meeting place).

-Brownfield.

-Lubbock.

-Yellow.

-Colorado Springs.

-The crosses.

-Odessa.

-Phoenix.

-St. George.

-Tucson.

Curiosities

-The real Los Pollos Hermanos restaurant has a page where customers can share their experiences in the place.

-As well as the restaurant, the menu also became popular: special with eggs with meat, varieties of omelettes and, of course, fried chicken.

-During the series, the recordings for the encounters and meetings in Los Pollos Hermanos were made in Twisters, which continues to operate to this day.

-There is a Los Pollos Hermanos website that redirects to a website about first aid kits.

-The name of the restaurant, although sticky, is a parody of another restaurant: El Pollo Loco.

-By the time the episode of Gus's death was broadcast, The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad were part of the same chain. It was for this reason that the special effects team of the zombie series provided help during this episode.

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