Chuy's is a Tex-Mex restaurant chain established in 1982, by Mike Young and John Zapp. The name Chuys came after a night of binge-watching Star WarsThe company currently has 91 locations and 9 locations (Doral, Kendall, Tampa, Miami, Huntsville, Belmar, Denver Tech, Orland Park and Chasewood Park, TX) currently under construction, as of December 2017. Chuy's currently has restaurants in 19 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, Missouri, and Ohio.