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www.CowAppreciationDay.com – Free Food at Chick-fil-A

Www.cowappreciationday.com is presented to you by CFA Properties, Inc., the parent company of Chick-fil-A restaurants. Cow Appreciation Day is a once per year special event at Chick-fil-A restaurants. On that day, if you dress like a cow and visit any participating ChickfilA restaurant, you will get free food. The free food offer will be good for the whole day, so you can choose whether you want a free breakfast, lunch or dinner. This year 2011, the Cow Appreciation Day will be on Fri. July, 8th. It is a one-day only event. So if you like to try some free food at the 2nd largest American fast food chain restaurant selling chicken entrees, you should mark your calendar so that you will not miss it this year.

If you have celebrated it before, you may already know how to dress yourself up as a cow. For those of you who are new to this ChickfilA holiday, you will be glad to know that making a cow costume is very easy. On the site, they have even provided a pre-designed cow costume. All you need to do is just to visit cowappreciationday.com and print out the template on a paper. The template is in a PDF file, and you have to download the costume kit to your computer. After printing it out on a paper, you have to assemble it together to make it into a paper costume and wear it on the July, 8th, 2001 when visiting  their restaurant.

To learn more information about this Chick-fil-A free food event and their requirement for the costume, visit the website:
http://www.cowappreciationday.com.

www.PandaExpress.com – Panda Express Menu – Nutrition Facts

Check out www.PandaExpress.com to find Panda Express menus and nutrition facts about their dishes.

This is the web site for consumers to find out all the information about Panda Express, a casual dining restaurant chain specialized in serving Chinese food in the US. Panda Restaurant Group Inc, the parent company of this restaurant is a private company and is headquartered in Rosemead, California. This restaurant was founded in 1983, which is 10 years after the company’s first restaurant Panda Inn opened in Pasadena, CA. Right now according to their website, more than 1300 their restaurants operate in the US, which are distributed among 38 states. This number is still increasing. As I am writing this post, there may be a new restaurant under this brand that is opening at a location near you.

At this web  site, visitors can use the on-site restaurant locator to find locations in their region, purchase gift cards, find their contact information and search for open jobs at their restaurant. Most importantly, this web site provides an online version of their menu and their foods nutritional information.

How to find Panda Express menu online?
1. Visit http://pandaexpress.com.
2. On their homepage, click on the “Menu” button at the top.
3. In the menu section, visitors can choose from “Menu items”, “nutritional info” or “nutrition calculator”. If you plan to serve Chinese food from their restaurant for your party, you may want to look into “Party Trays”.
4. In the Menu items, all the entrees, side dishes, 2-entrée plate, 3-entrée plate and others are listed. Among all their dishes, I like Kung Pao Chicken best. Kung Pao Chicken is a stir fried chicken with a little spicy. If you cannot take spicy food, you may want to try the orange chicken, a signature dish of the restaurant. Many people like their orange chicken so much. They even find their famous orange chicken recipe and try to cook it at home by themselves. Here is the direct link to view the Panda Express menu: http://pandaexpress.com/menu/.
5. In the Nutrition Info section, there is a spread sheet containing the detailed nutritional information. On this sheet, each menu item is listed with its serving size, calories, and nutritional components. This nutritional information is very useful for people who are looking for Panda Express nutrition facts. The same page can be reached by clicking on the link: “get nutritional information” in the Menu Items section.

So, if you are allergic to gluten or have other food allergy, you may want to take a look of their nutrition info page at http://www.pandaexpress.com/menu/nutrition.aspx. The information presented on this page is also useful for people who are vegetarian or sensitive to MSG or on certain diet. Pay a visit to the links above, if you want to see Panda Express nutrition facts or menu on their website.

www.PandaExpress.com – Panda Express Locations

Find Panda Express locations near you at www.pandaexpress.com.

This is the official web site for Panda Express, a fast food restaurant chain in the United States. As its name indicates, it serves Chinese food such as Chow Mein, Fried rice, Kung Pao Shrimp, Hot and Sour Soup and so on. This restaurant chain was founded in California, and it is owned by Panda Restaurant Group Inc. The company is not a publicly-traded company, instead it is a family owned company. In 1973, the first restaurant of Panda Restaurant Group Inc.: Panda Inn was opened by Andrew Cherng and his family in Pasadena, CA. In 1983, they open the first restaurant. Since then, this restaurant has gained popularity and been expanded quickly. Right now there are more than 1300 restaurants scattered in 38 states in the US. Most of their locations can be found in supermarket, shopping malls, airport and the like. But in 2004, their first stand-alone restaurant emerged.

If you like Chinese food particularly Szechuan cuisine, you may like the food served in this place. If you have never tasted them, you may visit one of their places in your area to check them out. If you don’t know where to find their places near you, the following instructions might be useful to you.

How to find Panda Express restaurants near you
1. Visit their website at pandaexpress.com where you can find a restaurant locator. The search box is located on the top right hand side of the home page.
2. Enter the zip code of the region that you are interested in into the box and click on the red button “Go”.
3. The next screen is the search result page where there is a map of the searched region on the upper part and a list of restaurants in the area on the lower part. On the map, all their restaurants available in the region are indicated with panda icons. In the list, you can see the address, telephone number, driving directions and store hours of all their restaurants founded. The distance shown on the list can be used to estimate how much time you need to drive to that location.
4. Besides the basic search function mentioned above, the advanced search function can help you find a location near you quickly. To use the advanced search function, what you need to enter includes the name of the city, the state and the zip code.

The direct link to their restaurant locator is http://www.pandaexpress.com/locations/locator.aspx. If you plan to try their gourmet Chinese food, go to the provided link above to see Panda Express locations close to where you live.