Chicken Brothers

What are Chicken Brothers?

The Chicken Brothers 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 for the development of encounters and appearances of important characters during the series Breaking bad, including Walter White, cousins ​​Mike Ehrmantraut and even Walter's brother-in-law, Hank Schrader.

Los Pollos Hermanos was subsidized by the German conglomerate Madrigal Electromotive, which held a significant amount of restaurant shares. This restaurant had two main purposes: to serve as a front for the real business of Fring (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 partners, either at the restaurant or in some other place related to it, he would send a message with the word "Chickens.".

Situation in Breaking bad

Background

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

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 training in chemistry, would manufacture the drug..

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

• Fring and Arciniega found restaurants in Mexico under the name "Los Pollos".
• Arciniega made the recipe for the production of methamphetamine; so I 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 be "the farm" or chicken farm, place 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 packing it, was done by means of the mixtures to fry the fried chicken; thus the distribution was guaranteed.

The plot became even more complicated in season four, as the 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. 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 an image of a model citizen. 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 prequel to Breaking bad, Better call saul (released 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 Los Pollos Hermanos really exist?

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 2017, and thanks to the promotion of the new season of Better call saul, opened the first Los Pollos Hermanos headquarters, 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 Breaking bad, Los Pollos Hermanos are distributed in the following cities:

• Alamogordo.
• Albuquerque (main meeting site).
• Brownfield.
• Lubbock.
• Yellow.
• Colorado springs.
• The crosses.
• Odessa.
• Phoenix.
• St george.
• Tucson.

Curiosities

• The real restaurant of Los Pollos Hermanos 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 at Los Pollos Hermanos were made on Twisters, which continues to operate to this day..
• There is a Los Pollos Hermanos website that redirects to a website about kits first AIDS.
• The name of the restaurant, while sticky, is a parody of another restaurant: El Pollo Loco.
• By the time Gus's death chapter aired, The walking dead Y Breaking bad they 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.

The following is the commercial about Los Pollos Hermanos that appears in one of the chapters of Breaking Bad:

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