Chi-Chi's, the Minnesota-born Mexican restaurant chain that served up its last chips and salsa about 20 years ago, makes its return on Monday with a new Twin Cities location.

The reborn Chi-Chi's is set to open in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, at 11 a.m. As of 8:45 a.m., reservations for opening day were fully booked.

Marno McDermott and former Green Bay Packer Max McGee founded the chain in 1975, and the first location opened in Richfield, Minnesota, in 1976. At its height, Chi-Chi's boasted more than 200 locations across the U.S.

Over the ensuing decades, the chain changed ownership several times before bankruptcy and a hepatitis A outbreak at a location near Pittsburgh sounded its death knell in 2004.

The restaurant announced a comeback last year , thanks to an agreement with Minne

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