How Panda Express Makes 110 Million Pounds of Orange Chicken per Year — First Person

Panda Express has been a staple of mall foods across the country from its first location in the Glendale Galleria in California in 1983. Since then, it has expanded to 2,300 restaurants that serve American Chinese favorites like kung pao chicken and its iconic orange chicken. For more food and restaurant news, sign up for our newsletters: Credits: Producers: Ian Stroud, Pelin Keskin Directors: Ian Stroud, Murilo Ferreira Camera: Murilo Ferreira, Jay Simms Editor: Charlotte Carpenter Executive Producer: Stephen Pelletteri Development Producer: Ian Stroud Supervising Producer: Stefania Orrù Audience Development: Terri Ciccone, Frances Dumlao, Avery Dalal ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more episodes of ’First Person’, click here: Eater is the go-to resource for food and restaurant obsessives with hundreds of episodes