Pick Up Stix
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| Founded | 1989 in Rancho Santa Margarita |
| Founder | Charlie Zhang |
| Headquarters | Laguna Hills, California, United States |
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Number of locations
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More than 70 |
| Products | Asian Cuisine |
| Parent | Mandarin Holdings Group, LP |
| Website | www |
Pick Up Stix is a Laguna Hills, California based "fast-casual" restaurant chain that serves fresh Asian cuisine through corporate-owned restaurants and franchises in Southern California. The company serves both dine-in and take-out customers, and offers offsite catering and some delivery services. It also supplies meals to private schools as part of a school lunch program. It is owned by Lorne Goldberg's Mandarin Holdings, parent company of Leeann Chin, who bought the company from Carlson Companies in 2010.
All of the company's food is cooked-to-order over high-heat burners using traditional woks. In a readers poll in the June 2008 issue of San Diego Magazine, Pick Up Stix was named one of three "Best Takeout" restaurants in San Diego.
Pick Up Stix stemmed from the innovation and fresh ideas of the Chinese immigrant, Charlie Zhang, who came to the United States in 1982 with only $20 in his pocket. He took traditional Asian food and adapted it to the American palate by reducing the amount of oil and adding wine, vinegar and soy sauce. He opened the first restaurant in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, in 1989. By 1992, there were two additional locations in Orange County, in Irvine and Laguna Niguel. Two years later, the chain expanded into San Diego County with locations in Del Mar, Carlsbad, and San Diego. In July 2001, the company was acquired by Carlson Restaurants Worldwide, a unit of the Carlson Companies. The company is headquartered in San Clemente, California, and owns and operates its own food-processing facility. Zhang remained as president and CEO of the company until his retirement in 2003. In 2010, Carlson Restaurants Worldwide sold the company to Lorne Goldberg's Mandarin Holdings. There are over 70 locations throughout the United States.
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