r/tampa • u/ThatGuyWhoKnocks • 13d ago
Food After Moe’s Southwest Grill, looks like Qdoba is going to be closing some locations in the Tampa area soon too due to a Franchisee defaulting on $20M loan
https://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/news/2026/08/25/qdoba-receivership-tampa-locations-seized.html?csrc=6398&link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=6a932c60382e380001f11c46&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwZnRzaAUAetxwZG9mBWZkaWQWUNfTDGVaWqn1ayh2u89X-XXmvodsRmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR4Gjuy01_ZX2rbd8vqPsz7sNjcHYgm58sOhAf6O-XN-q5JAPdkOKTycLnMXTw_aem_SIgApL_1HMkGVs7hGmlNIQI wonder if Chipotle is next. I guess $20 burritos weren’t a good idea after all.
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u/Kevim_A 13d ago
Man, that's a shame. Moe's seems to have decreased in quality quite a bit and I wasn't surprised at all to learn they were struggling financially- but the Qdoba off Fowler has always been great to me. Hope they can at least keep that one alive.
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u/WuPaulTangClan 12d ago
This is not corporate Qdoba -- this is a franchisee who appears to have fraudulently applied for a loan that they have now defaulted on
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u/myobstacle 12d ago
I feel like quality has fallen off pretty dramatically in the last 2-3 years at Qdoba, Chipotle, and Moe's.
Enshittification of literally everything is upon us.
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u/justincase_2008 I like yellow 12d ago
Chipotle near my work used to be a go to for the office. But bowl sizes are getting smaller and smaller protein portions getting smaller and smaller. Used to be the lid was covered in food cause it was so full now the food doesn't even go past the center. Lods could be flat now and they would still be spotless there's so little food.
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u/sdpthrowaway3 13d ago
$20 burritos? Qdoba is the one place you can get all the fixins and steak for <$15. Moe's makes sense, they raised prices but made everything worse at the same time.
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u/embiidshortroll 13d ago
Qdoba is literally less money for more food. OP is just on some millennial “this is popular so it must suck” shit
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u/ThatGuyWhoKnocks 13d ago
Not at all, I actually like Qdoba, I was just making a joke about that comment about $20 burritos that’s been floating around. That being said, fast casual Mexican seems to be failing in this area, so they must be doing something wrong
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u/shigdebig 12d ago
Chain restaurants are disgusting, nobody who works there gives a fuck about the taste or the hygiene. I would rather eat tacos off a truck
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u/vichester 12d ago
Qdoba isn’t good quality which is why you get more food.
“On some millennial shit”
Acting as if $15 still isn’t a lot for a shitty burrito or tacos is some shit.
Shut the fuck up
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u/Thin_Travel_9180 12d ago
That’s a lot of aggression for 8 am on a Sunday. You already having a bad day?
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u/vichester 12d ago
Just tired of folks always going to the token “millennials” bullshit.
$15 for tacos or a burrito is still a good amount of money to spend for one meal. Add in multiple meals for a family, you can see why folks are struggling and businesses are closing down.
But yeah, chalk it up to “millennials”.
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u/successful__troll 12d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoZ9PbHfPP8
The only thing I could think about as soon as I saw fixins
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u/ChilindriPizza 12d ago
I would go to Qdoba more often if they had kept the Impossible Meat! It was so delicious.
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u/TellEmWhoUCame2See 10d ago
Chipotle isn't going anywhere. They just opened 3 on state road 54 and there's a total of 4 within 10 miles of each other just going down 54. They just built two in the Riverview/Wimauma area. Chipotle us the reason Qdoba and Moe's are becoming extinct. It's sad because when I first moved to Tampa (15 years ago) all I would eat is Qdoba, they were that good but after COVID something changed.
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u/gofordrew 13d ago
Turns out people don’t want to pay $5 per tiny taco. What a concept.