Casa Ole! 

Fresh Today! 

Everyday! 

Casa Ole! 

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Boy is that jingle burned into my brain forever. If you're not familiar with it, you have to watch an amazing ad that ran nonstop while I was growing up in Texas.

It starred no other than MLB Superstar Jose Lima (RIP), who was having the best years of his career pitching with the Houston Astros. Casa Ole was also unstoppable in the late 90s/ early 2000s.

If you're like me and live in one of the several Texas towns that lost their Casa Ole location(s), I'm probably making you hungry for their signature green sauce right now.

And bless Casa Ole for always giving us that sauce, salsa, and chips for free. But that's not what put so many Casa Oles out of business, or at least I don't think so.

It's been a rough few years for any restaurant, chains included.

According to Nation's Restaurant News, a big part of the problem is that consumers' restaurant budgets are down on average 10%.

When consumers are beaten up, they rein in their discretionary spending and that is exactly what’s happening now.

I know I've attempted to reign in my out-to-eat budget too. It's a very common response to everything being so expensive.

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Additionally, the pandemic and the continued fallout of COVID killed a lot of restaurants- that's what I believe happened to my local Casa Ole, which closed in 2021.

Was it extremely authentic Mexican food? Not at all. But it was nostalgic and fun and fresh today, every day, Casa Ole!

Using the Casa Ole website and cross-referencing it with Google Maps, I believe I've found nearly all of the remaining Casa Oles in Texas. There is a sole location in Louisiana.

Might be worth a road trip, just for the green sauce.

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