Los Pollos Hermanos, Albuquerque

Los Pollos Hermanos is the fast-food fried-chicken chain fronted by Gustavo Fring in Breaking Bad. The restaurant functions as a highly professional, family-friendly franchise in Albuquerque while secretly serving as the public and logistical cover for Fring’s large-scale methamphetamine operation. In the real world, the filming location most associated with Los Pollos Hermanos is the Twisters restaurant, which fans recognise from exterior and drive-through shots.

Within the series, Los Pollos Hermanos is more than a storefront: it is an operational hub. Gus maintains a back office at the restaurant that doubles as a headquarters for both the chicken business and his drug enterprise. That office receives live feeds from surveillance cameras positioned across multiple sites-inside the restaurant, the parking lot, the laundromat, the superlab, and the chicken farm-allowing Gus to monitor staff, facilities, and covert operations in real time. The chain also draws regular visitors tied to Fring’s enterprises, including Walter White, Mike Ehrmantraut, and others involved in the supply network.

Los Pollos Hermanos figures centrally in several plotlines: it is the locus of Gus’s public respectability and private ruthlessness, and it becomes a focus of DEA interest (including stakeouts by Hank Schrader). The contrast between the restaurant’s wholesome image-clean dining rooms, branded packaging, and community presence-and the violent, clandestine activities conducted offstage epitomises the show’s theme of dual identities and hidden criminal infrastructure.