Corpus Christi’s newest Tex-Mex restaurant should look a lot like this Chuy’s on U.S. 183 in Austin, the restaurant chain’s hometown. Courtesy photo
A new Chuy’s is expected to open in Corpus Christi this November, and the Austin-based restaurant chain begins the process of hiring 175 employees. The restaurant is hiring full- and part-time as hosts, servers, bussers, bartenders and kitchen staff.
Applications will be taken from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. beginning Monday, Oct. 3, and running through Friday, Oct. 7. Apply in person at the construction site’s hiring trailer, 5933 South Padre Island Drive at the Airline Drive exit.
The 7,935-square-foot building now under construction is expected to cost about $1.8 million.
Chuy’s Holdings Inc. serves Tex-Mex across the country in 67 full-service restaurants in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. About half of the total restaurants are in Texas.
The eclectic eatery is known for its decadent decor and fresh ingredients with a unique take on the Tex-Mex tradition. Recipes come from a mix of flavors from Mexican border towns, the Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico, deep South Texas and Austin.
Chuy’s began in Austin in 1982 on Barton Springs Road in what was once a barbecue joint. It expanded to other states in 2009 when it opened in Franklin, Tennessee, just outside of Nashville.
Founders Mike Young and John Zapp decorated on the “cheap,” as the legend goes, using wooden fish, hubcaps and other found objects — seemingly anything that shined or sparkled — to attach to walls, tables, ceilings and even floors and doors.
