FRIDAY
E-mail a friendNovember 14, 2006
Panda Express founder Andrew Cherng discusses preparing for business opportunities. ER star Maura Tierney talks about the show's ratings resurgence.
Andrew Cherng
Andrew Cherng
Full interview. (11:41)
Andrew Cherng is founder and Chairman of the Board of the Panda Restaurant Group, which includes Panda Express, one of the fastest-growing Asian cuisine food chains in the restaurant industry today. His bachelor's and master's degrees are in mathematics, but Cherng chose to go into the food business - using the culinary training he received from his father who, before coming to the U.S., was a chef in Shanghai, Taipei and Yokohama. He opened the first Panda Inn in '73.
Maura Tierney
Maura Tierney
Maura Tierney is a familiar face to TV audiences. Since '00, she's been a regular on the hit show ER - a role which earned her an Emmy nod. Equally adept at comedy and drama, she had a four-year run on NBC's critically acclaimed NewsRadio. Tierney has successfully juggled both TV and film careers, starring in such films as Instinct, Forces of Nature, Primary Colors and Liar Liar. A Boston native, Tierney attended NYU but left school prior to graduation to join the Circle-in-the-Square theater school.