[1] At its peak, the chain had locations in five states: Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada and northern California.

It was not as profitable as the Tualatin location, and consequently the company's owners decided that future restaurants should be placed along freeways.

[1] By 1969, the chain was expanding outside Oregon, with two VIP's under construction in Seattle,[3] and by late 1971 it had grown to 15 restaurants.

[2] Renamed VIP's Industries Inc., the company continued to own a few Tex-Mex restaurants, using the name La Casa Real and mostly located in the Portland–Vancouver metropolitan area but with ones also in Fife, Washington, and Salem.

The entire six-restaurant La Casa Real chain was sold in December 1994 to Chevy's, which was expanding rapidly in the Portland metropolitan area at that time.