Please let us know if you have feedbackDive Brief:Portillo’s laid off about 18% of its corporate headquarters’ active workforce, as well as a handful of field management roles, on July 31, the company said in a Wednesday earnings report. A simplification of its general and administrative structure will allow the company to have better focus, operate more nimbly and improve its restaurant-level support, he added. The chain has faced several quarters of same-store sales declines, reporting a 1.2% drop during the second quarter of 2026. This caused newly built restaurants to cannibalize each other’s sales, making it difficult for the restaurants to generate Portillo’s typically high unit volumes. For example, Portillo’s opened its first airport location in the Dallas-Forth Worth International Airport last month.