Private company

Tip-Top Restaurant

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Nicaraguan restaurant chain

Tip-Top (often referred to as 'Pollo Tip-Top') is a national chain of restaurants in Nicaragua, predominantly selling chicken. It is headquartered in the country's capital city of Managua and is a franchise of Tip Top Industry.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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Restaurantes Tip-top
Photo: dec 9, 2007, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons5

Tip-Top (often referred to as 'Pollo Tip-Top') is a national chain of restaurants in Nicaragua, predominantly selling chicken. It is headquartered in the country's capital city of Managua and is a franchise of Tip Top Industry.2

The story

Claudio Rosales and Lina Lacayo de Rosales started the business, in Nicaragua, in 1959 with the sale of processed crude chicken, a market of which dominated 70% a long time. The first restaurant was opened in 1959 in the center of old Managua

From Wikipedia’s article on Tip-Top Restaurant, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Products and brands

Nicaragua

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Timeline

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Sources

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