The filing does not yet specify how many shares the chain will offer up, or at what price. Nor does it offer a date when the filing will take place.

El Pollo Loco was sold in September by American Securities LP to Trimaran Capital Partners. At the time, the chain--which had mostly run restaurants on the West Coast and Southwest--was expanding East, opening its first Chicago store in October. As noted in the company's SEC filing, it plans to open 52 restaurants in existing markets by 2009, as well as 44 in Illinois, New York, the six New England states, Colorado and Washington during the same time period.

In 2005, the company posted a same-store sales gain of 8.2% year over year on revenues of $237 million. Same-store sales have risen 5.4% since 2000.

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