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How Do Plant-based Burgers Stack Up During Inflation? Jeffrey Harris, CEO of Plant Power Fast Food

August 24, 2022

How Do Plant-based Burgers Stack Up During Inflation? Jeffrey Harris, CEO of Plant Power Fast Food, joins The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano to discuss the company’s newest pricing move and how plant-based burgers are comparing to meat burgers during inflation. Specifically, they discuss, Plant Power Fast Food’s expansion during Covid-19, Their new pricing strategy bringing burgers down to $4.95, Burger King’s plant-based strategy, How inflation is impacting plant-based products and how they stack up to meat analogues. Here is a short clip and transcript from their conversation. Podcast here. Display content from YouTube Click here to display content from YouTube. Learn more in YouTube’s privacy policy. Always display content from YouTube Open “What Plant-based Burger Chain Dropped Prices by Almost 40%? Jeffrey Harris …

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Plant Power Fast Food Partners with Alpha Foods for More Affordable Vegan Burgers

June 14, 2022June 13, 2022

Plant Power Fast Food, a leading vegan fast food chain, announces new lower-priced menu items as it works to achieve price parity with traditional fast food brands. To create the menu, the chain worked with plant-based brand Alpha Foods to make new pea protein burgers and cheeseburgers priced at $4.95 and $5.95, respectively. Removing barriers “One of the core criticisms of plant-based food is that it is expensive, our goal is to remove that barrier and make plant-based fast food an easy choice,” states Plant Power co-founder and COO Zach Vouga. According to the brand, the company’s new offerings are now priced within $1-2 of similar animal-based meat burgers at global brands like Burger King, Wendy’s and McDonald’s. In fact, Plant Power’s new pea protein-based …

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Plant Power Fast Food Opens Flagship Hollywood Location

March 16, 2022

Plant Power Fast Food, one of the fastest-growing vegan fast-food chains in the US, has announced the opening of its new Los Angeles flagship restaurant. Located in the heart of iconic Hollywood, it marks Plant Power Fast Food’s 11th restaurant opening, with four more slated to open by the end of the year. Plant Power Fast Food is a 100% vegan and sustainability-focused version of traditional fast food brands such as McDonald’s, with the new location situated near the intersection of Vine Street and Melrose Avenue and around the block from Paramount Studios, Hollywood. Other locations can be found across California, including San Diego and Sacramento, and also in Las Vegas, NV. As the company looks to accelerate its lead in the rapidly evolving market …

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Plant Power Fast Food Hires Former Starbucks Exec as Chief Development Officer

March 1, 2022January 11, 2022

Plant Power Restaurant Group, the owner of Plant Power Fast Food, announces the appointment of Steve Figliola as the company’s Chief Development Officer. We spoke with the company about the impact of the latest hire, which comes at a pivotal time of growth and expansion for the brand. A QSR veteran Figliola previously served as Starbucks’ Regional Vice President for operations in Southern California and Hawaii. In prior industry roles, Figliola served as Papa Murphy’s International Vice President of Development, and Taco Bell’s Corp Director of Operations. At Plant Power, Figliola is expected to build and lead a strong development group to support the California-based company, which specializes in 100% plant-based fast food, as the brand enters a critical stage of growth. Headquartered in San …

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Investments & Finance

BREAKING: Plant Power Fast Food Raises $7.5M to Double the Number of “Vegan McDonald’s” Across USA

August 17, 2021May 25, 2021

Plant Power Restaurant Group, LLC., the parent company of San Diego’s Plant Power Fast Food, a QSR restaurant chain aiming to establish itself as the Vegan McDonald’s, today announces to vegconomist the completion of a $7.5 million Series A capital raise. The fresh funds will be used for continued nationwide expansion, with plans for two Las Vegas locations already underway. “We’re doing our best to be part of the change. And to be as effective as we’d like to be, we’ll have to continue to grow.” The Series A was led by Helia Capital USA, Inc., a subsidiary of Fusion Ventures; Eat Beyond Global Holdings; and Batta Foods. Additional funds came from a group of individual investors with close ties to the Company, as well as …

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Investments & Finance

Plant Power Fast Food, the Vegan McDonalds of California, Joins Eat Beyond Porfolio

February 24, 2022February 24, 2021

Canada’s Eat Beyond Global Holdings Inc announced this week an investment in Plant Power Restaurant Group, operating as Plant Power Fast Food. The San Diego based QSR chain has been going from strength to strength over the past two years, enjoying increasing demand for its range of burgers, fries, ‘chicken’ tenders, wraps, salads, juices, raw items, and kids menu, all in biodegradable packaging.

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Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Plant Power Fast Food, Jeffrey Harris

June 2, 2020

Jeffrey Harris, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Plant Power Fast Food joins Elysabeth Alfano on The Plantbased Business Hour as Plant Power Fast Food is set to expand soon beyond Southern California. They talk about sales during coronavirus, the beauty of a loyal and dedicated customer base, and what he does in the face of fear.

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Star of Disney’s Aladdin Invests in Plant Power Restaurant Group

September 27, 2021December 18, 2019

Mena Massoud, star of Disney’s Aladdin, announces his investment into the Series A Raise Capital round for the Plant Power Restaurant Group, the parent company of SanDiego’s Plant PowerFast Food. The chain recently opened its fifth location in Long Beach, following a massive growth in sales in 2019.

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Gastronomy & Food Service

Plant Power Fast Food Announces Four New California Locations

October 31, 2019October 30, 2019

San Diego’s plant-based fast food restaurant chain, Plant Power Fast Food, known for launching the first vegan drive through, recently opened its fifth location in Long Beach, California, after reporting massive growth in sales. The chain now debuts a Los Angeles food truck and four new locations coming in the next 16 months. “Fast food doesn’t have to be unhealthy for our bodies or bad for the planet. We’re here to demonstrate that there’s a better way,” said PPFF’s president and co-founder.

Plant Power Expands After Vegan Fast Food Skyrockets

September 26, 2022July 16, 2019

San Diego vegan restaurant chain Plant Power Fast Food is to open its fifth location Long Beach, California, after reporting that sales from the Long Beach location on its launch day at the end of June were higher than any day’s earnings across all of its locations. The company saw an increase of 438% in gross sales between 2016 and 2018 as vegan food continues to explode.

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Products & Launches

UK’s First 100% Plant-Based BBQ Ribs to Launch in Sainsbury’s

May 10, 2019May 10, 2019

Sainsbury’s has announced that from 15th May it will be the first supermarket in the UK to offer vegan BBQ “Ribz”. The ribz, made by Plant Power, are called Sweet ‘n’ Smoky Veggie Ribz, and are created using tempeh, a soy product originating from Indonesia.

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