Pick Up Stix
A bowl of Firecracker chicken | |
| Industry | Restaurants |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1989 in Rancho Santa Margarita |
| Founder | Charlie Zhang |
| Headquarters | Laguna Hills, California, United States |
Number of locations | More than 70 |
Key people | Linda Nelson, COO and Lorne Goldberg, owner |
Number of employees | 1,000 |
| Parent | Mandarin Holdings |
| Website | www |
Pick Up Stix is an American fast-casual restaurant chain based in Laguna Hills, California, that serves fresh Asian cuisine (or Chinese-American cuisine as well) 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, the 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 the three "Best Takeout" restaurants in San Diego.