Exterior view of a Panda Express restaurant.

Panda Express is a fast casual restaurant chain serving Americanized Chinese cuisine. It operates mainly inside the United States of America, in shopping malls, supermarkets, airports, train stations, strip plazas, theme parks, and college campuses. In 2004, the company began opening stand-alone restaurants with drive-through windows.^[1] Panda Express has 911 restaurants covering 35 U.S. states and Puerto Rico, as well as 2 locations in Japan ^[2]. Image File history File links Panda_Express. ... Image File history File links Pandaexpressrestaurant. ... Image File history File links Pandaexpressrestaurant. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A restaurant chain is a set of related restaurants, typically with the same name in many different locations either under shared corporate ownership (e. ... American Chinese cuisine refers to the style of food served by Chinese restaurants in the United States. ... For the traditional meaning of the word mall, see pedestrian street or promenade. ... Packaged food aisles in a Fred Meyer store in Portland, Oregon A supermarket is a departmentalized self-service store offering a wide variety of food and household merchandise. ... Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street station in 1865. ... Example of a small strip mall. A strip mall (also called a plaza) is a shopping center where the stores are arranged in a row, with a sidewalk in front. ... Theme Park is a simulation computer game designed by Bullfrog Productions, released in 1994, in which the player designs and operates an amusement park. ... The Universitätscampus Wien, Austria ( details) Campus (plural: campi) is Latin for field or open space. English gets the words camp and campus from this origin. ... A drive-thru window at a fast food restaurant. ...

The chain offers a wide variety of food such as Orange Chicken, Beef with Broccoli, and Mandarin Chicken. Most combo meals are served with fried rice, steamed rice, or chow mein; however, mixed vegetables can be substituted in their place. Orange chicken (陳皮鶺) is a Sichuanese dish. ... Fried rice (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: ) is a popular component of Chinese cuisine and, by extension, various other forms of Asian cuisine. ... For other uses, see Rice (disambiguation). ... Take-out chicken chow mein from an American Chinese restaurant Chow mein is a stir-fried dish in American Chinese cuisine, consisting of noodles, meat, and cabbage and other vegetables. ...

Panda Express is headquartered in Rosemead, California. It is a faster, more casual equivalent of the more upscale Panda Inn, from which the chain concept was derived. Location of Rosemead in California Coordinates: Country United States of America State California County Los Angeles Incorporated (city) 1959-08-04 [2] Government  - Mayor John Tran[1] Area  - City  5. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ...

History

The Panda Restaurant Group, parent company of Panda Inn, Panda Express & Hibachi-San, was founded by Andrew and Peggy Cherng and Andrew's father, Master Chef Robert Cherng, all of whom used to live in the Yangzhou region of China's Jiangsu province.^[3] They started their first Panda Inn restaurant in 1972 in Pasadena, California. Yangzhou (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: ; former spellings: Yang-chou, Yangchow; literally Rising Prefecture) is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu province, Peoples Republic of China. ...   (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chiang-su; Postal map spelling: Kiangsu) is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, located along the east coast of the country. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ...

In 1983, Donahue Schriber Real Estate, the manager of the Glendale Galleria, invited the Cherngs to develop a fast-food version of Panda Inn for the Galleria's food court, and Panda Express was born.^[4] The chain has steadily expanded across the United States since then. Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ... Built in 1976, the Glendale Galleria is a shopping mall in Glendale, California owned by General Growth Properties. ...

In 2005, The Panda Restaurant Group had annual sales of $750,000,000 and 13,000 employees.

Overview

With 1,010 ^[5] locations, it is the largest Chinese fast food restaurant chain in the United States. It is also one of the few fast-food chains in the United States to pay its employees significantly more than federal- and state-mandated minimum wages.^[6] The minimum wage is the minimum rate a worker can legally be paid (usually per hour) as opposed to wages that are determined by the forces of supply and demand in a free market. ...

The company's highest revenue location, bringing in over US$4 million annually, is located at the Ala Moana Center food court in Honolulu, Hawaii.^[7] USD redirects here. ... Ala Moana Center was once the largest shopping center in the United States and currently holds the distinction of being the largest open air shopping center in the world. ... For the city and county of Honolulu, see City & County of Honolulu. ...

In popular culture

The company is referenced in Blizzard's April Fool joke in 2005. Blizzard announced a new feature for their game World of Warcraft which would allow players to order food inside the game through a company named "Pandaren Xpress". Blizzard Entertainment, a division of Vivendi Games, is an American computer game developer and publisher headquartered in Irvine, California. ... World of Warcraft (commonly abbreviated as WoW) is a massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Blizzard Entertainment and is the fourth game in the Warcraft series, excluding expansion packs and the cancelled Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans. ...

Panda Express was referenced in the 2007 movie Knocked Up as being strikingly similar to Yoshanoya Beef Bowl. Knocked Up is a 2007 American comedy film written and directed by Judd Apatow. ...

Notes

1. ^ Bruce Haring, "Panda gains higher visibility for chain amid shift from malls, food courts," Nation's Restaurant News, 9 August 2004, 6.
2. ^ Panda Express Restaurant Locations
3. ^ Panda Restaurant Group History
4. ^ James Flanigan, "Cooking Up a Powerhouse of Chinese Fast Food," Los Angeles Times, 8 October 2001, C1.
5. ^ Bartiromo, Maria. "Positive Thinkers", November 2007. 
6. ^ Krantz, Matt. "Panda Express spreads Chinese food across USA", USA Today, 2006-09-13. Retrieved on 2007-01-17. 
7. ^ Shimabukuro, Betty. "Orange Chicken on the house", Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 2007-01-17. Retrieved on 2007-01-17. 

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References

• Flanigan, James, "Fast Food Powerhouse", Asian Week, Nov. 30 - Dec. 6, 2001 issue. Associated Press story.
• Foodservice Equipment & Supplies (FE&S) magazine, Panda Express Profile
• Andrew Cherng Profile - Asia Society, Southern California.
• Andrew Cherng interview, The Tavis Smiley Show, original airdate November 14, 2006.
• Jennings, Lisa, "Having words with Peggy Tsiang Cherng: chief executive and co-chair, Panda Restaurant Group", Nation's Restaurant News, August 1, 2005.
• "Panda Express is Alumni Brainchild", @Mizzou, University of Missouri–Columbia, Alumni Association magazine, January 2004.

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External links

• Panda Express
• Hibachi-San
• Panda Restaurant Group
• Hoover's Financial Data on the Panda Restaurant Group