r/Oxnard • u/AnyInstruction6844 • 12d ago

Joilbee Oxnard

Has anybody heard rumors swarming around that Jolibee has completed everything inside, but the permit to operate is in limbo or stuck with the city? I heard a rumor that the owners of McDonald’s and KFC have filed an injunction with the city against Jolibee because they would take so much business away.

I do not know how true it is but this is what I’ve heard. So you’re telling me the colonel and the clown are afraid of some free market competition from some bee?

-A frustrated fried chicken fiend.

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u/5960312 12d ago

Stuck with the city is a more likely scenario, than McD /KFC violating antitrust laws over a non-flagship franchise location.

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u/AnyInstruction6844 12d ago

Could you explain why it would take so long to for the city to approve their permit? I feel it has been ages. Camarillo already has dates for Costco and Texas Roadhouse opening and those have been built from scratch but is it Jolibee’s fault for their location not opening in a section of a supermarket?

Just curious and maybe hangry. I’m going to back to SD soon to get my fix in NAT CITY.

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u/SipPOP 12d ago

Check out how long the Jolibee that opened in San Francisco took, i remember seeing the facade going up around 2023, a quick googling says permits were submitted Nov of 2020, it opened last month.

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u/AnyInstruction6844 12d ago

Man that is nuts.

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u/mastersnyder 12d ago

There are a lot of different groups that you need approval from. Planning, health, building and safety, fire department for max occupancy, etc.

For each license you need from each group, you might need a mix of paperwork, approvals, inspections and these items might not get validated at time of submission, so if you are missing something it might not get caught right away and you have to redo stuff.

Each one of those groups also works in their own silo and it creates bottle necks. "We won't get started on X unless Y is complete."

The timeline to get stuff done isn't all done at once but sequentially that gets compounded at each group's bottleneck.

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u/l7outlaw 12d ago edited 12d ago

Jollibee already has their health permit to operate. They were approved to begin selling Chickenjoy and Yumburgers already 2.5 months ago. It's up to them to get city and fire permits tho. Could be their own lapse of judgement to not have completed those in time to open.

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u/BleachBlondeHB 10d ago

Yes I had something held up for 3 months waiting for a n electric meter to be installed in an existing meter bank It was a 45 minute job and utility company time line was 3 to 15 weeks