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Dharma Southern Kitchen Announces Huge Expansion Plan for US Southeast and Beyond

Dharma Southern Kitchen, a vegan comfort food restaurant based in Orlando, FL, has announced it is expanding in Florida throughout 2022, and embarking on a strategic growth plan for the Southeast US and beyond in 2023. Through a new investment fund campaign, the chain intends to open company or franchise locations in every major US city in the next five to eight years.  Southern with a vegan twist Dharma says it differs from most vegan fast-casual concepts by focusing on “down-home” comfort fare like fried chick’n, mac ‘n cheese, grits and slaw. The chain’s top-selling items include:   Nashville “Hawt” – Spicy fried chik’n with pickles and white BBQ slaw The Orange Bird – Florida citrus BBQ chik’n topped with roasted garlic sauce Biscuits n’ Gravy …

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Products & Launches

Orlando Startup VeganUs Launches Chicken and Beef as PB Meat Sales Skyrocket in US

Orlando-based newcomer VeganUs just launched its plant-based line of chicken and beef alternatives in the US. According to the Plant-Based Foods Association (PBFA) and the Good Food Institute (GFI), the growth rate for the US plant-based food market more than doubled in 2020, as sales rose 27% to $7 billion. The plant-based alt-meat category is emerging as the industry’s cash cow with plant-based frozen meat sales rising 30% and refrigerated plant-based meat sales increasing by 75% in 2020. In development since 2019, VeganUs was founded by two long time vegans, David K. Mao, PhD and Jessie J. Cheng. The first collection includes four frozen products – NoChicken Nuggets, NoChicken Burger, NoBeef Burger and NoBeef Crumbles –with all four VeganUs products being Non-GMO Project Verified and …

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