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The El Pollo Loco guest service number in our data is 1-877-375-4968, and elpolloloco.com has a contact route for feedback about a visit or an order. Have the restaurant, the date, the time, your receipt or order number and the total in front of you: without those details a guest service team can rarely trace what happened.

If you ordered through DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub or Postmates, that platform took your payment and handles the refund, not El Pollo Loco. Start there for a missing item, a late order or a problem with the driver.

For food you collected or ate in the restaurant, the restaurant itself is the fastest route: go back with the receipt and the food and ask for the manager on duty. For an order placed in the app or on the website, use the order history and help section in your account and quote the order number. For delivery, the platform that took your money issues the refund.

If you are told no, ask for the reason and the name of the person refusing, then take it to guest service on 1-877-375-4968 with the store number from your receipt. Still nothing? Put the order, the date and the amount in your complaint here and we take it to El Pollo Loco for you.

Write down the address or the store number from the receipt, the date, the time and the name of the manager on duty. A large share of El Pollo Loco restaurants are franchise owned, so a complaint about one restaurant is usually handled by the owner of that restaurant rather than by the brand, and naming the store is what gets it to the right desk. Raise it with the shift manager first, then with guest service.

For cleanliness, food handling or anything that made you ill, the county health department takes reports about individual food premises, whoever owns the restaurant. A complaint sent through our complaint process adds weight: other guests of the same restaurant can find your case and confirm the pattern, and a community of consumers gives advice while you chase your resolution.

El Pollo Loco is a California company, and its corporate guest relations team is reachable through the contact route on elpolloloco.com and on 1-877-375-4968. Corporate is the level for what a restaurant will not fix or cannot fix: wrong orders again and again at the same location, a refund that was agreed and never paid, or the conduct of a manager. Because of franchising, corporate will often route the case back to the owner, so include the store number, the date, the time, the amount and one clear sentence about what you want.

Keep the tone factual and keep every reply with its date. File your complaint on our website as well and we push it to El Pollo Loco through emails, social media and paper complaint letters.

So far consumers reported 28 complaints about El Pollo Loco here, with an average rating of 1.1 out of 5. The same themes keep coming back: wrong or incomplete orders, staff who were rude or unhelpful, long waits at the counter, in the drive-thru and on delivery, and food quality problems such as burnt or badly handled chicken.

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