Our Heritage

Early 1960s

Even though the first P.F. Chang’s opened in 1993, the story begins in the early 1960s. Cecilia Chiang was flourishing in the wild success of her Chinese restaurant, The Mandarin. Flash forward to 1974 and she has a second location in Beverly Hills, feeding celebrities like John Lennon and Yoko Ono. That year, Cecilia was called back to China for an extended trip. Her son, Philip, just out of art school, was realizing the woes of finding work as an artist, so he stepped in to run the restaurant. And run the restaurant he did.

1990s

Enter restaurateur Paul Fleming. He's living in Arizona running a successful restaurant concept, but his favorite Chinese place, called Mandarette, is in Los Angeles. There's one question that he just can't get out of his head: How does restaurant owner Philip Chiang make only three ingredients taste so tantalizingly delicious? He couldn't let these recipes stay secret for long. With a handshake, they agreed to share the magic and P.F. Chang’s was born.

P.F. Chang's Today

P.F. Chang’s is an Asian restaurant concept founded on making food from scratch every day in every restaurant. Created in 1993 by Philip Chiang and Paul Fleming, P.F. Chang’s is the first multi-unit restaurant concept in the U.S. to honor and celebrate the 2,000-year-old tradition of wok cooking as the center of the guest experience. Since inception, P.F. Chang’s chefs have been hand-rolling dim sum, hand chopping and slicing all vegetables and meats, scratch cooking every sauce and wok-cooking each dish, every day in every restaurant. P.F. Chang’s new Farm to Wok® menu highlights its wholesome, scratch-cooking approach and introduces new dishes and drinks for lunch, happy hour and dinner. Today, P.F. Chang’s has over 300 restaurants across the globe.