Have been to this location several times. When this location first opened was very slow service but, I accepted it as it was new. Have used the drive thru mostly since opening. I have gone inside a few times several months after there opening and the service is still slow. My visit tonight has to be the worse. I decided to try a new item so, I ordered the chipotle chicken avocado burrito, my issue with the burrito was, there was no avocado in the burrito. I went back to the counter to tell the cashier there was no avocado in the burrito, his reply was "they are out of avocado" I asked him why he did not say that when I ordered the burrito and he stated he did which is not true. I would not have ordered that specific burrito if he had stated they were out of avocado. After telling him he did not tell me they were out of avocado, he had a long pause and then said sorry. No offer of a discount for next visit nor did he tell the MGR on shift. The time to get my food was 10-15 minutes and there was maybe 3-4 other guests in the whole restaurant. I will not be giving this location anymore of my business and will go back to Rubio's across the street. Much better service and no lame excuses. Suggestion to the management staff: keep enough staff on hand to properly serve your customers and train your staff to tell customers if they are out of ingredients to let the customer know before ordering. p.s. The seating area was a mess, garbage containers overflowing and tables dirty, floor littered with napkins and food debris. read more

I have to say, bit disappointed with this location today. I got a medium drink when they are out of medium lids, they couldn't find the Jalapeño hot sauce. This is restaurant 101; if you are out of lids for medium cup, proactively offer customers the large cup before they ask for it. Stock up the condiment station before opening the door for lunch. You can't be out of staple condiments customers have come to expect. On a positive note the chicks was awesome as always. Your favorite customer. read more

Hate getting home only to find out the chicken avocado quesadilla is a bacon quesadilla. So sad now. Last time my chicken avocado burrito didn't have avocado at all. WTH? I love the chicken but if you do t eat in the restaurant it's a crap shoot on what you bring home. read more

Horrible customer service and the food was cold when handed to me. I ordered 2 chicken avocado burritos and 1 pollo bowl and after waiting in a long line. As they handed me my food I noticed only 1 burrito in the bag and 1 bowl. I politely said to the lady behind the counter, "I think she didn't charge me for the 2nd burrito, can I add it?" She said, "Sorry sir you'll have to get back in line and order it." Keep in mind the place just opened and the line was a mile long. This has to be the absolute worst display of customer service I have ever encountered! I will never ever spend 1 hard earned cent in this establishment when there are plenty of other places to eat in Tracy! I will make sure to tell neighbors, schools, youth football teams, cheer groups and friends that live in the Bay Area when traveling through to pass this horrible place up. Sad that soon there will be another vacant lot there just like Long John Silvers if they continue this type of business practice. read more

Ordered a salad and got about two soggy pieces of brown lettuce and one piece of chicken...and it was $7.00...sorry One if the WORST wastes of my money..they could've AT LEAST filled the bowl read more

Tried the drive-thru today. I was the only car in line and waited about 20 minutes. My avocado tacos were cold and the soft corn tortillas were mangled and soggy. There was virtually no avocado in my tacos. Needless to say...they did not look anything like the picture. read more

I've had El Pollo Loco many times before growing up in San Jose. I went to this location last night to pick something up to eat. I ordered the 2 piece combo and my chicken was a bit on the dry side. Their mac and cheese was horrible! Although their corn is really good.. probably the best part of the meal. Most likely won't be coming back here again. I'll stick to the location in Stockton. read more

I'm in sales and bring lunch in to my clients all the time. El Pollo is my favorite lunch to bring in. For lunches in Tracy I'd have to bring the food from Manteca or Stockton. So I was excited to see the location in Tracy opened. I called today to order lunch and was told they don't take phone orders. Seriouely? My orders are large enough that you can't just walk in and order it and walk out ten minutes later with it. Guess Manteca and Stockton will still be getting my Tracy orders. read more

I seriously just got served hot garbage. I ordered a "street taco" and a "classic chicken burrito" and the meat was so dry and over cooked that I couldn't even bite through it. Unreal. I can't even eat it. I have never ordered ANYTHING ANYWHERE that I could not even eat. Window lady was nice, but that doesn't make up for the disgisting, pathetic "food" they're serving their customers. read more

The quality sucks here! It's always a crapshoot--it's analogous to them giving you the middle finger when you open your food container. Boney a$$ chicken and no gravy on the mashed potatoes. They are well pass strike 3 for me. read more

El Pollo Loco - Fast Food Near Me - Tracy, California

Would love to give a review but can't eat here. I've tried three times, twice through drive thru and once inside! Full disclosure - All three times were non peak hours. All three times I had to walk away because the wait was ridiculous. The Construction / design of the drive thru is terrible, because you enter into the exit of another popular restaurant (Texas Roadhouse) If you're thinking about checking this place out, my suggestion is wait until the new buzz dies down, You are looking at 30-45 mins minimum for drive thru, who wants to eat cold food? Inside was worse, just because you're new doesn't mean that the customers have to be 100% understanding. I get that your new, I get that you're in Tracy where there are very few new restaurant options, I get that this is probably an exciting new restaurant to the town...but because you're understaffed you're turning away a lot of new business. I hope that this can change in the near future, I'll be happy to change my review at that time read more

Can't get the order right. The Manger does not know that tortillas strips comes with tortilla soup. Really not trained well, needs someone that work in the industry for a while to train the new employees read more

The persons taking the orders are very rude and impatient as if the restaurant is full of people (always empty)! I believe Pollo Loco food is usually good but the staff at this location make it terrible. The chicken is undercooked and the sides are always dry/stale. Train your staff people! No more PL for me... read more

Good food...okay customer service.. If you're going stop serving chicken at 9:30... Then close at 9:30 not at 10pm... Have you ever gone to McDonalds and been told that they are out of burgers for the night. You guys had one job.. read more

I hate to give such a bad rating but the chicken was horrible it was so over cooked and dried out and had no flavor at all very disappointed. I got the order to go 8 piece mixed and i could barely eat it they also forgot to give me the flour tortillas, I was hoping to have a lot left over to make other meals with it and i ended up throwing it out. I use to love this place back in the day but the quality of the food was horrible :-( read more

Very bad experience,every time I am there.They never have chicken breast, they take too much time taking the orders, The attitude with employees is not the best it is the worst, I'm very disappointed with Pollo Loco. read more

First visit and so far I'm impressed. Went through the drive thru. Order was repeated back which I appreciated. Food was still very warm and tortillas didn't feel or taste stale. Am looking forward to future visits. I have great hopes for this place in this town. For everyone's sake I hope I'm right. read more

I loved El Pollo Loco once and then we ate at this location twice and I am no longer a fan. The chicken is dry and you can tell it's not fresh. Both times we experienced this issue. The rice was over cooked and salad tasted like chemicals. I hope they improve because they were good once. read more

This place is great for a few reasons- healthy options for a fast food place, the employees are very helpful, sweet and will even check on you and ask how your meal is and if they can get you anything, and the restaurant is super clean. You can tell they take pride in this place...and the chicken is fresh and tasty. Thanks Tracy El Pollo Loco! read more

Great service if you walk in had the 8 piece combo chicken moist and juicy salsa bar very nice and fresh good value for fast food and healthier than burgers read more

AMAZING store! They are insanely friendly and ready to tend to any need. The food is so wonderful and fresh. I personally love their corn and churros a lot! I also really like the chicken avocado quesadilla. You won't regret ordering that. The service at this store, whether he drive through or inside is perfect and FAST! My only suggestion is that the parking lot set up and layout of where the restaurant was placed is a little bizarre. I see friendly faces I recognize every time I visit. This is my favorite el pollo loco location. read more

Really loving this place!!! Great food!! love it! And fast too. I hope it stays like this for a long time! I'll be looking forward to coming here again!!!!! read more

Food here is prepared really sloppy. Chicken is too hard to chew. I will never come here again. This was my second visit, the first visit I noticed the avocado was molded. Decided to give them another chance today. I was disappointed once again. Ordered a chicken avocado taco platter- got home and see that the tacos had very little meat plus the chicken was burned and too hard to chew. read more

My first time I came in i went through the drive through. Two people took my order which was interesting to say the least. My order was right and i did recieve everything charged for. What i wasnt happy was the food was not PL standards. The rice and tortillas cold and stale. Chicken probably would have tasted better if i didnt get the burnt ends with the char flavor. Someones not wiping off the grill after every batch ! Thats was drive through experince. As for my walk in experince, the place was well lit and big . Dirty tables and floors but they have must have experinced a rush since they had someone on top of it. What i didnt like is that no one smiles! None of your employees smile. Food was still the same. Burnt ends with a char taste. But ther service inside is what made me give it two stars. It doesnt hurt to smile and be nice! read more

If you look at all the negative reviews on this place I think anyone can get that the customer service totally sucks. I went once last week and got the same complaints as many have detailed....food was poorly prepared (totally dry chicken)..order taker had a severe attitude problem when confronted that the order was incomplete and th BI#CH had the audacity to flip me off as I was walking out the door. The best thing that can happen to this place is that it closes due to lack of customers..... read more

Edwardo did an amazing job on my order and the food here rocks. I gonna keep coming back to this healthy place to eat. I love the churros!

Just left here very upset. I came here to order 16 pieces of chicken and the lady told me a 15 min wait the front was clear and the drive thru was empty. I ask what time they are open and she said 10am I look at my clock at it was noon. I was in shock that she said they had no chicken ready since there is only an amount that they can cook from what manger Maria said. I told her no thank you I will go somewhere else for my chicken. read more

Use to be one of my favorite fast food restaurants until they decided to down size their chickens to the pigeon sized offerings that seem to be taking over the fast food industry. (see KFC). Do real normal size chickens still exist? Apparently so as I had a chicken breast and leg about two weeks ago at our local Buffets that was huge, had more chicken on that one piece then you will get from a dozen chickens at the fast food places. If you keep going for these ripoffs they will shrink the chickens further until the drum sticks look like chicken wings. They are close to that now. read more

Me and my boyfriend ordered a nacho bowl and it only had 6 or 5 pieces of chicken that was hella small and than when my boyfriend went to talk to them about it one of the workers started talking shit, while my boyfriend was listening to him talk shit and he let him know that he was right there and could hear the shit he was saying. It was the cashier. Unprofessional and rude one star!!! read more

First time coming here , food tasted pretty good but the portions were very small also not a fan of parking situation as its right next to texas roadhouse. read more

Pulled up to the drive thru at 10:55pm not knowing what time they closed or even what time it was. As we pulled up, the automated voice asked if we wanted to try something and we said no thank you. Then an employee started talking and said "sorry we just closed". We asked what time they closed and they said 11. We looked at the time and it was 10:56! Then before we could say anything he said, "our computer shuts down 5 minutes before closing". What a liar! What kind of register/computer shuts down 5 minutes before closing! We weren't happy! Such lazy employees. We looked inside as we were driving away and there were 3 or 4 workers inside read more

For the love of Pete, DO NOT EAT HERE. We went through the drive through tonight for dinner...we're asked to park up front to wait for our food and ended up waiting 20 minutes(timed from the time on the receipt)!! Once we got home we opened up our tacos that were supposed to be chicken and found that they were shrimp...my boyfriend is ALLERGIC to shrimp! My quesadilla was so cold it's like they took it out of the fridge, the salsa tastes exactly like tap water and the Mac and cheese were ordered was seriously cheese soup. There were maybe 15 noodles in the whole bowl! I'm not even exaggerating...I cannot even fathom how ridiculous my experience was. This particular restaurant has the most uncaring and unfocused employees. I called to speak with a manager, Brian who was very apologetic and genuine, but does not excuse his staff's lousy service. All I can say is, don't waste your money here, holy hell what a joke. Literally I want to cry. read more

Finally an El Pollo Loco in Tracy!!! The food is excellent and the service is great. This is so much better than the Manteca store.

It was good. not a big fan of the beans Hench the 4 star rating. We bought the meal deal good value.

We like this place! It's a decent joint to get something healthier than Taco Bell in a similar amount of time. Just check your orders at the drive-thru before pulling away - we've had them forget an item two times. read more

Love me some chicken. Glad this place is around as I hate fast food. Well fast food is good when half of your stomach is filled with scotch or vodka. Anyways I can eat pretty decent here and usually get their double chicken salad because I'm fat and fat people always order a salad. But how in the world do you run out of chicken? That's happened a few times here. read more

My mom and I ate here today for lunch. We have had el pollo loco in many numerous occasions and in many different locations, but I have to say this one is the best!!! The chicken was fresh just off the grill and very very juicy! The place was very very clean and we got our food extremely fast although the place was busy since it was opening day. The staff was very friendly. read more

Maybe it's cause it's new but the food tasted excellent, compared to the el pollo in Stockton which is shitty compared to this one. Plus Tracy needed it badly read more

Service is slow, staff doesn't know how to roll a burrito or the fact move fast! It took 25 min for my burrito and they just opened.

Not good at all. El polo loco taste good in other locations but not in this location.