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In July 2017, the company pledged $10 million to the Children's Hospital Los Angeles, where the sixth floor will be renamed the Panda Express Floor. Since 1999 Panda Cares has raised over $107 million. The majority of the Cherngs donations are done through Panda Cares, the giving arm of the Panda Group, and the Panda Charitable Foundation, to education, youth leadership development and health.

In 2018 it was ranked 143 on the Forbes list of America's Largest Private Companies. Uncle Tetsu, Yakiya, Pieology and Ippudo are all concepts supported by Panda Group. Panda Group has been aggressively supporting popular Asian chains by introducing them in the American market.

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Panda Inn, a sit-down restaurant chain, has 6 locations, all of which are in California, plus Wasabi, a Japanese concept. Panda Express, the most popular, has over 2,000 locations as of 2018, making it the largest Chinese fast food chain in the United States. The Panda Restaurant Group includes Panda Express, Panda Inn, Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers (AK/HI only) and Hibachi-San. The Cherngs invest their personal wealth out of their family office, the Cherng Family Trust. The company debuted on Forbes' 2016 edition of America's Largest Private Companies

in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri. degree in Mathematics from Oregon State University in 1971 and a Ph.D. ДЄndrew Cherng, age 70, and his wife Peggy Tsiang Cherng met at Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas. In 2019 Panda Express opened its first branch in Manila, Philippines, as a joint venture between the Panda Restaurant Group and Jollibee Foods Corp., JBPX Foods. Panda Express in the largest Asian-American restaurant chain in the United States, with 2,200 branches. The group has its headquarters in Rosemead, California. In 1985 the store went from five locations to nine in just one year.

Ten years later a developer of the Glendale Galleria, who was a patron of Panda Inn, asked Andrew to start a fast-service version of his restaurant in the new mall. They started their first Panda Inn restaurant in 1973 in Pasadena, California. Panda Restaurant Group, Inc., parent company of Panda Inn, Panda Express and Hibachi-San, was founded by Andrew and Peggy Tsiang Cherng and Andrew's father, Master Chef Ming-Tsai Cherng, the family originating in the Yangzhou region of China's Jiangsu province.