
Partnerships with McDonald’s and KFC were in the works, and the investor presentations were all upside, with plant-based hamburgers poised to take an enormous bite out of a $270 billion meat industry. Back in 2019, the CEO and founder of faux-hamburger startup Beyond Meat closed the most successful IPO since the financial crisis. In retrospect, rising as high as Ethan Brown did four years ago might almost guarantee a brutal, Greek tragedy-style fall from grace somewhere down the line. Credit - Michael Nagle/Bloomberg-Getty Images It's all about delicious.Ethan Brown, founder and chief executive officer of Beyond Meat Inc., speaks during an interview at the Nasdaq MarketSite during the company's initial public offering in New York, on May 2, 2019.Įthan Brown, founder and chief executive officer of Beyond Meat Inc., speaks during an interview at the Nasdaq MarketSite during the company's initial public offering in New York, on May 2, 2019. And we wash it all down with a lemon coconut shake, strawberry shortcake shake, chocolate shake, strawberry shake or root beer float. My wife and I have a regular order, a once or twice a month fix, a single and double Epic Burger Classic with Wisconsin cheddar cheese, raw onion, lettuce, tomato, pickles and Epic sauce, grilled on a whole wheat bun. All of which means it tastes better than most everybody else's product. And they serve Creekstone Beef, one of the top choices for restaurants across America and a fully Zabihah Halal beef processing company. They offer "A More Mindful Burger" with non-processed, all-natural, organic ingredients, never frozen, no hormones, no antibiotics. Epic Burger has eight locations in downtown Chicago and two others in Evanston and Old Orchard Mall in Skokie. We have stopped at the Epic Burger location at 227 East Ontario Street in Streeterville but the locations at 407 North Clark Street in River North and at 1000 West North Avenue, at Sheffield, in the North and Sheffield Commons, in the Old Town neighborhood are more convenient to our Gold Coast home. Now it seems the rest of the world knows all about it. What's fast casual mean? My wife and I have been enjoying burgers at Epic Burger since the Chicago's. 25 fast casual restaurant in the United States by TripAdvisor. I guess I was surprised when I learned that Epic Burger had been ranked as the No. International Restaurants in Lincoln Park.European Restaurants for Lunch in Gold Coast.Restaurants with Outdoor Seating in Chicago.Restaurants for Group Dining in Chicago.Late Night Mediterranean Restaurants in Chicago.

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