Our Story

One shop, one fryer, one recipe. 28 years later, the recipe is the same.

It started in Caracas, 1997.

ChurroManía opened with a single store, one fryer, and a churro recipe worth building a business around. The idea was simple: take a street classic and make it fresh, consistent, and impossible to walk past. Crispy fresh, fried to order, dusted in cinnamon sugar.

28 years later.

That one store became 120+, across Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Chile, and the United States. The menu grew into the lines people know now: Crispy Manía, Twist Manía, Churro Bites, and Big Manía. The footprint changed. The recipe did not.

The Guinness moment · 2025

In 2025, ChurroManía fried the longest churro in the world and set the Guinness World Record.

A single churro, hundreds of feet of it, made the same way as every churro in every store. Proof that the simple things, done well, can go a very long way.

What hasn't changed.

Every churro is still fried fresh to order. Still cinnamon sugar, still crispy, still made the same way in Caracas and Miami and San Juan. The secret formula from 1997 is the same one in every store. We kept the thing that worked and got very good at doing it everywhere.

The story so far

  1. 1997

    The first ChurroManía opens in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela.

  2. 1998

    ChurroManía becomes a franchise system.

  3. 1999

    The first 15 franchised stores open across Venezuela.

  4. 2001

    The first international store opens at Dolphin Mall, Miami.

  5. 2005

    ProFranquicia award: best franchise of the year.

  6. 2007

    Expansion across Latin America begins.

  7. 2012

    The first Walmart store opens in Miami, FL.

  8. 2015

    ChurroBites launches.

  9. 2021

    A retail partnership with Publix brings CrispyManía pre-fried churros to stores across the U.S.

  10. 2022

    Celebrating the 25th anniversary.

  11. 2025

    Our founders earn the Guinness World Records title for the world's longest churro.

  12. 2026

    A store opens inside Inter Miami's stadium, and ChurroManía is named best franchise of the year by the Iberoamerican Franchise Federation.

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