/PRNewswire/ Buona, maker of Chicago s Original Italian Beef, is proud to announce its 6th annual celebration of National Italian Beef Day on Saturday, May.
The Buona Companies, owner and operator of the famous Original Italian beef, announced another strategic expansion of their business. This May, Buona will add a food truck to their 26 brick-and-mortar locations across Illinois and Indiana. The truck – appropriately named the Beef It Up truck – will be exclusively available for private events like weddings, large events and parties but will showcase its famous beef at some signature events throughout the city this summer.
The Buona Companies, owner and operator of the famous Original Italian beef, announced another strategic expansion of their business. This May, Buona will add a food truck to their twenty-six brick-and-mortar locations across Illinois and Indiana. The truck – appropriately named the Beef It Up truck – will be exclusively available for private events like weddings, large events and parties but will showcase its famous beef at some signature events throughout the city this summer.
While previous generations of plant-based burgers tasted nothing like the meats they sought to imitate and were often punctuated with protuberant beans and mealy soy, more recent, higher-tech efforts like Impossible Foods and Beyond Burger have come closer to the mark.
Many restaurants and grocery stores now offer plant-based burgers, meatballs, bacon, chicken nuggets, hot dogs, sausages and many other meat-like products that offer an increasingly convincing simulacrum of familiar flavors that promoters say are better for health and the environment.Â
Buona Beef, a long-running Chicagoland chain that has a location at 324 Indianapolis Boulevard in Schererville, rolled out a Beefless Italian Beef that sold 2,000 pounds of seitan in the first week, selling out at many locations across the Chicago metropolitan area.
As of Monday evening, the chain had already sold out of the plant-based sandwiches at multiple locations
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Chicagoans can now get a taste of Italian beef without eating any meat at all.
The well-known Chicago chain Buona Beef started serving a plant-based Italian Beefless sandwich at all of its 24 locations on Monday. The sandwich, which is inspired by the restaurant s classic Italian beef, includes beefless seitan meet, according to the company. Don t miss local breaking news and weather! Download our mobile app for iOS or Android and sign up for alerts.
The Buonavolanto family, which owns the chain, enlisted Chicago-based seitan maker Upton’s Naturals to create the beef” for the sandwich.