Profil Financier
Andrew Cherng occupe actuellement le rang #539 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur food & beverage). Fortune nette estimée : $7.5 B ($0 sur 24h).
Andrew Cherng cofounded Chinese fast-food chain Panda Express, alongside his wife Peggy Cherng.
Born in China, his family moved to Taiwan and Japan before he immigrated to the U.S., where he met Peggy as a freshman at Baker University in Kansas.
The couple launched Panda Express in 1983 in a Glendale, California mall.
Today the 2,600-location chain stretches from the U.S. to Canada, Mexico, Dubai and South Korea. The Cherngs are co-CEOs.
In 2018, the couple invested in a group that bought the Mandarin Oriental hotel, now the Waldorf Astoria, in Las Vegas for $214 million.
Andrew Cherng has a master's degree in applied mathematics; he first got into the food business with his father, opening a sit-down restaurant in Pasadena in 1973.