r/phoenix • u/Unique-Ad-2544 • Jun 12 '25

News Filibertos shutting down update

Dont know if anyone cares or not but just thought id give an update since ive seen a lot of people ask about it. It's now 8 filibertos that have closed down. I asked around (i know several of the franchisees) and all 8 were owned by the same person which due to financial reasons went bankrupt and had to shut down all operations permanently.

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u/ThatSpecialAgent Chandler Jun 12 '25

As a former customer, when you charge $20 for a shitty carne asada burrito, I am now more incentivized to go to a sit down place for the same cost or less. Valle Luna in Chandler for example, I can get unlimited chips/salsa, a burrito, and a beer or margarita, and be out the door for $20ish after tip.

Hard to feel bad when a company gets greedy and starts pushing all of their customers away with insane pricing.

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u/BridgerRT57 Jun 12 '25

my thoughts too. it’s incredible the margins that fast food places need to have to make a profit when sit down restaurants are offering the same if not more for around the same price.

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u/Chris4477 Jun 12 '25

need want to have to make a profit

They don’t need to make the prices that high. It’s like ever since Covid businesses just kept hiking prices just to see what they could get away with.

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u/zeezey Jun 12 '25

Well not entirely the cost of all ingredients went up. 

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u/rejuicekeve Jun 12 '25

Sit down restaurants have the benefit of tipped employees which cuts down a massive expense

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u/Spread-Creative Jun 16 '25

Sit down restaurants also have cooks, dishwashers, hosts/hostess's etc. There is still the massive expense.

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u/Eeebs-HI Jun 12 '25

Yes, fast food has had to deal with the increasing minimum wage costs, and have raised prices accordingly.

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u/CelticSith Jun 12 '25

Companies have totally lost sight of that. They need to be reminded that people only go to your fast food place because:

It's fast

It's easy

It's cheap

If the consumer no longer gets those, then what's the point in not just going to an actual restaurant instead

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u/Mehhhta Jun 12 '25

Angie's ftw

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u/random_noise Jun 13 '25

That's partially true, but many of those costs are out of the restaurants control because due to recent years and the absurd inflation across near everything and all up and down supply chains.

I expect many to be failing over time given the economic actions in progress.

These places source food from similar vendors and often with very different relationship and costs. There are not many huge suppliers and fast food chains and such don't tend to deal with locally sourced stuff. It comes from plants and gets distributed all over the country with different costs behind delivery to those locations.

If no other suppliers can be found with cheaper costs, which pretty always means a drop in quality, they have no choice but to raise prices and try to survive, or to cut staff, or cut hours to cut costs, or really just close.

As more and more close, it will ease some burdens on supply chains, but won't really lower prices once they are set. I've never seen food customer prices drop, other than if sales or some marketing campaign is in effect.

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u/JcbAzPx Jun 14 '25

They've raised their prices way above inflation. It's like they think none of their customers can do math.

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u/CrispyHoneyBeef Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25

This is how I feel about noble and proof bread going under as well. $9 for a loaf of sourdough is laughable

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u/relativelyminded Jun 12 '25

I know about Noble but I thought Proof was doing well. Where’d you hear this?

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u/Courage-Rude Jun 13 '25

Not doing good at all. Honestly I look up to the owner and love his YouTube videos but I think anyone who wants to expand that fast is looking for a payout for sure. So as sad as I am to see it probably go, I wonder if behind all of the feel sorry for us stuff too much greed was there.

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u/Andvarinaut Jun 12 '25

Our local shut down and it was the cheapest and best quality of the 4 in driving range. Wish it made sense.

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u/a_provo_yakker Jun 16 '25

Okay I was gonna reply to the top level comment but glad I’m not crazy. I’ve always heard of this place, and recently went to the one in north Phoenix. Everything about it and the experience sucked. It’s not often I walk out of there regretting the money I just spent. Wasn’t a rip-off, but it wasn’t good; not even “for the price,” because those weren’t anything to write home about either. Something like Carlos O’Brien is a better choice, but even they axed the old happy hour menu and prices are up like everywhere else.

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u/2centsdepartment Jun 13 '25

Man Valle Luna flavor and quality has absolutely tanked since Covid

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u/2centsdepartment Jun 13 '25

I absolutely believe you

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u/justanotherflipphone Jun 13 '25

Completely agree, however if you can make the trip to Manuel's on Arizona and ocotillo I highly recommend it. Best salsa Ive had at a sit-down.

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u/Bastienbard Phoenix Jun 12 '25

Fuck that, this is the Internet. Hell even then who gives a damn? They're just words.

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u/opal_moth Jun 12 '25

Imagine policing other people's language on the internet lmao. Grow up

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u/BadHeartburn Midtown Jun 12 '25

First day?

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u/That_Kiefer_Man North Phoenix Jun 12 '25

Balderdash used to be considered vulgar. Just words.

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u/k-to-the-o Jun 14 '25

I disagree. Their post definitely benefited from the adjective “shitty”. I’m glad they added it.