4 million customers
2 million margaritas
1.3 million mini chimis
235,000 fried ice creams
211,000 Coronas
277,000 kids’ meals
58,000 pollo fundidos
27,000 lizards
81 tons of refried beans
a gazillion chips
2,950 great employees
and... No karaoke ever!
Garcia’s (Colonie, NY)
There really was a "Julio
and Olivia" Garcia!
The Restaurant's monthly Utility
Bills are over $9,000/month (Gas / Electric & Water)
Garcia's seats 240 guests at one time!
Garcia's uses 30,000 gallons
of water each week!
The "mini chimis" and enchiladas
have been rolled by the same Chinese woman for the last 23
years (Rosie)
The Espinaca con queso cheese
dip really can't be recreated at home because we buy a special
low moisture cheese that will melt (unlike the cheese from
your grocery store that tends to turn into "flubber")
Garcia's uses 30 bottles of
tequila each week!
It's been over 24 years
since we opened our doors, Halloween night, 1983
It's been over 8 years
since "the move"
We use 180 pounds of sour
cream each week
On a Saturday night we
will have 36 employees working at once!
Average age of our...
Servers...24
Cooks...29
Bussers...17
Hosts..18
Bartenders...28
Managers... We don't want to tell ya!
Garcia's donates THOUSANDS
of dollars in gift certificates to charity events each
and every year!
Fried ice cream is really
fried!
Garcia's has 6 phone lines
(4 for incoming calls)
99% of our current customers
like the "new building better" (sorry 1 %, we are NOT
moving back!)
Garcia's Mexican Restaurant
caters Doctors offices all over the capital district
each week. Most popular catering choice? Fajitas for
15!
Favorite meal eaten by
employees... chicken fajita quesadillas or Double Grilled
BBQ Burritos
Best kept secret on the
menu? Double glazed, Tex Mex pork baby back ribs. Tender,
moist and delicious!
Garcia's delivers lunch
5 days a week between 11am and 3pm
Garcia's employees can
check their schedule on the internet (sorry guys, you
need a password to see exactly when "Renee" is working)
The kids' chicken fajita
meal was developed by one of our kid customers "Sara" at
the age of 8 (her mom helped).
And finally... we had
a contest for our staff to come up with the "most fun" fun
fact and the winner got a cool Garcia's T-Shirt! The
new shirts are finally in with cool new colors (Banana,
Kiwi, Azalea, Jade and Cornflower! (kind of sounds like
margarita flavors!)
