 As he investigated what his options were to opening a chicken char-broiled restaurant, he met Armando Parra, who mentioned his area of Chihuahua, Mexico had many rotisserie style chicken restaurants.Okura located a restaurant location in Ontario, California but Parra believed the location was too small for char-broiled but suggested using rotisserie cooking instead.Okura changed his plans to rotisserie chicken and opened the first Juan Pollo in January 1984.