Lisa Yang, vice president of Yang's Fortunes and daughter of founder Steven Yang, fell into writing fortunes, as well. Since then, the company has brought on freelance writers to supplement Lau's output of adages. Lau scribbled off fortunes in between his other duties, gleaning inspiration from wherever he could find it - like signs in the subway, as The New Yorker recounts. In 2005, The New Yorker profiled Donald Lau, who at the time was vice president of Wonton Food, Inc. But each recognized the growing demand for fortune cookies and their baked-in aphorisms, and capitalized on it. The founders of Wonton Food and Yang's Fortunes both started off focused on other Chinese cuisine products. But in the Westernized version of Chinese dining, the treats are expected at the end of every Chinese restaurant meal, or included in a take-out order. Yang's churns out about 4 million fortunes per day.įortune cookies are conspicuously absent from restaurants in China. Yang's Fortunes, Inc., founded in 1996 and based in San Francisco, just handles printing, cutting, and packaging fortunes to send off to clients baking them into cookies. and to Canada, Latin America, and Europe. Wonton Food ships between 4.5 million and 5 million cookies per day to restaurants and chains throughout the U.S. It was established in 1973 and is based in the New York City area, with an additional factory in Houston. Wonton Food, Inc. is the world's largest manufacturer of fortune cookies and fortune cookie messages. The epigrams originate in a handful of factories that each churn out upward of 4 million little slips of wisdom a day. Many save their favorites, carrying them around in a wallet.īut these often-odd messages are not axioms from the beyond. They crack open the yellow crescent moon cookies that conclude their Chinese restaurant meal, and eagerly hunt for predictions, revelations, and deeper meaning. People often take fortune cookie messages to heart.
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