Panda Express is an American fast-food restaurant chain that specializes in American Chinese cuisine. With over 2,200 locations, it is the largest Asian-segment restaurant chain in the United States, where it was founded, and is mainly located in North America and Asia (in addition to other countries and territories).
The chain offers a variety of Chinese cuisine–inspired dishes that has largely been Americanized, including orange chicken, sweet fire chicken breast, Beijing beef, grilled teriyaki chicken, and Kung Pao chicken, with certain premium dishes such as honey walnut shrimp and black pepper Angus steak having additional costs for the patron. The company is headquartered in Rosemead, California.
According to NBC News, Panda Express’s best-selling dish was concocted by Andy Kao, the chain’s executive chef, in 1987. Though the original Orange Chicken recipe likely tasted a lot like the sweet and spicy dish you enjoy today, it was slightly different, as the chicken used had both bone and skin still attached.
According to NBC News, in 2021, Panda Express dished up over 115 million pounds of Orange Chicken that year alone — which, per the outlet, accounted for a third of the franchise’s total sales. Unsurprisingly, in a 2017 press release, the franchise reported that over half of all Panda Express customers include Orange Chicken as a part of their order. If you divide that by the standard size of an Orange Chicken portion, that’s nearly 41 million servings, though there’s no accounting for the heaps of chicken doled out by the more generous Panda Express scoopers.
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