Cypress-based Real Mex Restaurants Inc. named Bryan Lockwood its chief executive, a news report said.
He most recently headed a restaurant investment company called Rare One LLC, according to Nation’s Restaurant News.
Before that, he cofounded and was president and chief executive of a restaurant company that owns several brands, including Austin, Texas-based fast-casual chain Freebirds World Burrito, which has about 100 locations in seven states, two of them in Orange County.
Real Mex operates about 130 locations across eight brands: El Torito, El Torito Grill, Acapulco Cantina, El Paso Cantina, Chevys Fresh Mex, Who Song & Larry’s, Las Brisas and Sinigual.
Former Real Mex Chief Executive Charly Robinson left the company in July, shortly after Rio Gueli was named chief operating officer, a promotion that gave him authority over all the brands.
