Last week xiao Jimmy said that Chipotle had been raided and a lot of "undocumented workers" had lost their jobs, and the stores had trouble finding replacements--it turns out an audit had been done in one state. I joked at the time that something similar could happen at El Pollo Loco. When I visited one store this afternoon, I saw only 3 people working there. It was 3 in the afternoon, so perhaps not a busy time, but there was the manger, whom I had seen before and an Anglo manning the cashier and putting orders together. Plus one Hispanic woman who was doing the other labor. I don't think this was a case of EPL not having enough workers. Just a slow time of the day.