![]() Curio Collection by Hilton Hotels in Chicago.To stay up to date on the latest, visit and follow #BeyondBurger and #FutureOfProtein on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Investors include Bill Gates, actor and activist Leonardo DiCaprio, Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams, Kleiner Perkins, former McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson, Honest Tea founder Seth Goldman, Humane Society of the United States, and Tyson Foods. A 1/4lb Beyond Burger sold in grocery stores has 4 grams of saturated fat and 22 grams of total fat, compared to 9 grams of saturated fat and 23 grams of total fat in a 1/4 lb 80/20 beef burger.īased in Los Angeles, California, Beyond Meat is a privately held company with a mission of building meat directly from plants. The Beyond Burger packs more protein and iron than beef and is a cholesterol free food, with less saturated fat than beef. The Beyond Burger is the world’s only burger that looks, cooks, and tastes like ground beef from cows but is made entirely from plants, without GMOs, soy, or gluten. For the latest list of stores carrying The Beyond Burger, visit The Beyond Meat blog. Many of these restaurants are innovative, single-unit restaurants like Delilah LA, The Moonlighter in Chicago, The Distillery NYC and The Hamilton Inn in Jersey City, that seek to appeal to meat eaters and vegetarians alike by offering innovative, plant-based options. This includes restaurants, hotels, college campuses and professional sports teams’ training camps. Twin Peaks Restaurant (4 locations throughout IL)īeyond Meat’s rapid retail growth is coupled with major food service/restaurant wins, including an exclusive partnership with Sysco that, since launching in September, has produced 2,000 new food service outlets carrying The Beyond Burger.Veggie Grill (2 locations opening Dec 2017). ![]() Epic Burger (8 locations throughout Chicago).Whole Foods Market (18 locations throughout IL).Jewel-Osco (185 locations throughout IL).Below is a list of retailers & restaurants in the Chicago and Illinois area who carry The Beyond Burger: The addition of Jewel-Osco brings The Beyond Burger’s distribution footprint to 4,300 retailers, including the nation’s two largest grocery chains Kroger and Albertsons, as well as 3,700 restaurants. ![]() What accounts for the difference is The Beyond Burger’s appeal to meat-lovers who seek to incorporate delicious plant-based options into their diet. The typical veggie burger (made with pea protein) makes up just 1% of such sales for burger chains that provide the option. That equates to 10% of Epic Burger’s sandwich and burger sales. The consumer’s experience with the Beyond Burger needs to be as se amless as possible, including where they find it–in the meat section–and we applaud Jewel-Osco for thinking expansively about the future of protein.”Īs a testament to the swelling demand, Epic Burger, Beyond Meat’s first restaurant partner in Chicago, sold over 20,000 Beyond Burgers across 8 locations since launching in July. “Chicago has been, and continues to be, a terrific market for us,” said Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown. “I’m so pleased to see the Beyond Burger gaining so much traction there, and am thrilled to gain placement in the meat aisle at Jewel-Osco. ![]()
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