Stripes Burrito Co. opens ninth Albuquerque location, donates to VA Hospital
Stripes Burrito Co. opened its ninth Albuquerque spot on 98th Street with a $41,450 gift to the VA, pushing its donations past $300,000.
Stripes Burrito Co. opened its ninth Albuquerque restaurant at 260 98th St. NW after more than nine months of construction, and the debut came with a $41,450 donation to the VA Hospital in Albuquerque.
The new shop sits in one of the West Side’s busiest commercial corridors, near Amazon’s Albuquerque distribution center and a string of recent arrivals that includes Sonic, Dutch Bros, Whataburger, Caliber Collision and Goodwill. At about 1,700 square feet, the restaurant has a drive-thru, a dine-in lobby and seating for roughly 35 customers, and it employs about 25 people.
The opening adds another job site and another food stop to a stretch of 98th Street that has become a magnet for traffic-driven retail and restaurant growth. The area appealed because of that traffic and the momentum of new development. The next expansion is already mapped out: Stripes plans to open its 10th location in Bernalillo next year, behind the recently opened Bob’s Burgers at 560 NM-528.
Stripes now lists nine locations in the area, a sharp jump from an earlier snapshot that showed six Albuquerque restaurants and one in Rio Rancho. The latest opening brings its total contributions to the VA Hospital to more than $300,000.
Stripes was founded in 2018 with a mission of supporting veterans, and its website says a portion of all net proceeds goes to the VA Hospital in Albuquerque. The company’s website says New Mexico has one of the highest per-capita veteran populations in the nation and that the Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Center serves thousands of veterans every year.
A year earlier, KRQE put Stripes’ donations to the hospital at about $163,000 over the prior year.
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