Major El Pollo Loco franchisee donated $6000. to Proposition 8 :(

[Bluebear]

From "You Can't Hide Your Hate" blog....

El Pollo Loco
Roland Spongberg, Long Beach, CA
WKS Restaurant Group, President
Donated $6,000 on 8/21/08

This one is the saddest for me as WKS Restaurant group owns most of the El Pollo Loco franchises (over 50) in So Cal and several Denny's and Corner Bakery Cafe's in CA, AZ, and Utah. El Pollo Loco is one of my favorite restaurants. I am working on the locations so I know which ones I can't go to anymore, but it includes the El Pollo Locos in the following locations.

Long Beach, 3425 E. Anaheim St.
Lakewood, 2727 Carson Ave.
Inglewood
Los Alamitos, 3502 Cerritos Ave.
Stockdale
Los Altos, 2200 Clark Ave.
Fullerton
CSULB, 1212 S. Bellflower Blvd., CSULB-Student Union Bldg.
Artesia
Newport Beach, 2232 S. Bristol St.
Rosemead
Sherman Oaks
Lake Elsinore
Lakewood II, 11601 Carson Ave.
Lake Forest
Bakersfield, 3701 California Ave.
Perris
Bakersfield, 2000 White Lane
Colton, 1090 S. Mt. Vernon.
Imperial Hwy, 1360 W. Imperial Hwy.
CSULA, 5151 State University Dr., Golden Eagle Bldg.
Temecula
Bell Gardens
Harbor City
Murrieta
Northridge
Sunset/LA, 3925 Sunset Blvd.
West LA, 3008 Sepulveda Blvd.
Granada Hills
El Cajon
Midway
Mira Mesa
Genessee
Fountain Valley, 11025 Warner Ave.
Stanton
San Bernadino
Tempe, AZ
Glendale, AZ
Marana, AZ
Chandler, AZ
Fontana (Denny's)
Peoria, AZ (Corner Bakery)
He owns others, but I couldn't find a complete list.

http://youcanthideyourhate.blogspot.com/2008/11/list-of-prop-8-contributors-in-long.html
The effort to focus public attention on businesses whose owners or workers supported Proposition 8 shows few signs of slowing down -- though it remains unclear what effect the grass-roots, Web-based effort is actually having. The Press-Telegram's John Canalis and Phillip Zonkel profile the co-publisher of one of the websites, You Can't Hide the Hate, that is trying to spotlight these businesses. It appears the site is sensitive to the criticism that some of the tactics are similar to blacklisting:

Once a viewer clicks "Long Beach" under the "Communities With Fliers" title, the site lists about 350 donors in Long Beach, Lakewood, Bellflower, Signal Hill, among other areas, who contributed money in support of Proposition 8. The site is a community forum, identifying donors and helping viewers make informed decisions about conducting business, promoting tolerance and civil rights, Mazor said. The site states, "We do NOT advocate blacklisting or boycotts, only informed decision making and awareness. We are 100 percent opposed to violence, vandalism and threats and do not endorse using any information in a nefarious way."

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/12/a-blog-spotligh.html

[Kutjara]

1. My two closest ones are on the list.

No more Crazy Chicken for me.

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. El Pollo Loco

Is in my town and San Luis Obsipo, I don't know if he owns it.

When you find out more on the list please inform us.

I like their food.

[TomInTib]

4. Hell, I've never even seen one.

But I rarely (as in, never) patronize fast-food franchises, except In-n-Out Burger. Zoo on everything.

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. Its more like a real restaurant with take out

Its not really fast food like Taco Bell although they do have
a drive through. Great verde sauces and even decent fish locally fresh.

[msongs]

3. yellow pages are full of ads with little crossess & bird xtian symbols nt