{"id":6904,"date":"2018-05-28T07:03:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T11:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/?p=6904"},"modified":"2018-05-28T07:03:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T11:03:02","slug":"family-matters-for-panda-express-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/?p=6904","title":{"rendered":"Family Matters for Panda Express Owners"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>At the entrance to the Rosemead, Calif., headquarters of Panda Restaurant Group, the parent company of Panda Express, Panda Inn and Hibachi-San, the artist Robert Indiana\u2019s \u201cLOVE\u201d sculpture was recently unveiled.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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The 12-foot-high multi-million-dollar installation, with those four bright red letters made of aluminum, perches atop a fountain of flowing water. It was a private donation by the company\u2019s co-founders and co-chief executive officers, Andrew and Peggy Cherng.<\/p>\n

The sculpture\u2019s message resonates with the Cherngs, who have spent the last 45 years building a Chinese restaurant empire that produced sales in excess of $3 billion last year, with over 2,000 Panda Express restaurants in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Guatemala, and Aruba. Those restaurants each average about 480 guests on a given day, and the Cherngs employ more than 35,000 associates.<\/p>\n

Read on The New York Times<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe are building a culture on trust, and the aim of trust is love,\u201d said Ms. Cherng, 70. \u201cLove is the verb we emphasize with our Panda family. We must respect and care for each other. We must push and stretch each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n