Pick Up Stix
Type	Wholly owned subsidiary of Mandarin Holdings Group, LP Delaware.
Founded	1989
Headquarters	San Clemente, California, United States
Number of locations	More than 70
Key people	Charlie Zhang, Founder
Products	Asian Cuisine
Website	www.pickupstix.com

Pick Up Stix is a San Clemente, California based"fast-casual" restaurant chain that serves fresh Asian cuisine through corporate-owned restaurants and franchises in Southern California. The company serves both dine-in and take-out customers, and offers offsite catering and some delivery services. It also supplies meals to private schools as part of a school lunch program. It is owned by Lorne Goldberg's Mandarin Holdings, parent company of Leeann Chin, who bought the company from Carlson Companies in 2010.

All of the company's food is cooked-to-order over high-heat burners using traditional woks. In a readers poll in the June 2008 issue of San Diego Magazine, Pick Up Stix was named one of three "Best Takeout" restaurants in San Diego.

History
Pick Up Stix stemmed from the innovation and fresh ideas of the Chinese immigrant, Charlie Zhang, who came to the United States in 1982. He took traditional Asian food and adapted it to the American palate by reducing the amount of oil and adding wine, vinegar and soy sauce. He opened the first restaurant in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, in 1989 and now there are over 70 locations throughout the United States. In July 2001, the company was acquired by Carlson Restaurants Worldwide, a unit of the Carlson Companies. The company is headquartered in San Clemente, California, and owns and operates its own food-processing facility. In 2010, Carlson Restaurants Worldwide sold the company to Lorne Goldberg's Mandarin Holdings.