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.
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This week, The Buona Companies (parent company of restaurant chain Buona) launched a vegan version of its Original Italian Beef sandwich. Bouna partnered with Chicago-based vegan brand Upton’s Naturals to craft the seitan-based vegan beef for its new Plant-Based Italian Beefless Sandwich which features a choice of hot or mild giardiniera and is served on French bread. The vegan beef sandwich is paired with a vegan gravy Buona created exclusively for the launch from vegetable broth, Buona’s Italian spices, and olive oil.
“While Buona is known for our Original Italian Beef, we wanted to expand our plant-based menu options to serve the growing number of vegans and vegetarians who join their families at our restaurants. We wanted something that felt true to our establishments, menu offering, and family recipes, which is why we decided to use our signature dish as inspiration,” Candice Jordan, director of marketing at Buona, said. “We all felt Upton’s Naturals was t
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The Buona family opted to collaborate with Chicago-based seitan maker Upton’s Naturals to craft the plant-based beef” for the sandwich.
Buona Rolls Out Plant-Based Italian Beefless Sandwich for Limited Time
April 26, 2021
The Buona Companies, owner and operators of the famous Chicago Family-Owned restaurant group, announced that it is releasing a new product specially for their vegetarian and vegan customers – a Plant-Based Italian Beefless Sandwich. This vegan friendly option will retail for $7.99 and will be available at all 24 Buona locations in Chicago and Indiana for a limited time beginning on April 26. From the bread to the “beefless” Seitan meat to the veggie-based gravy and giardiniera, every aspect of this sandwich is plant-based, vegan friendly, and prepared separately to ensure no cross contamination with non-vegan products. Chicago consistently ranks as one of the most vegan-friendly cities in the United States, and this new sandwich offering will