{"id":180883,"date":"2026-02-17T01:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180883\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T01:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:34:12","slug":"fresnos-planet-vegan-burgers-earns-national-nod-the-road-to-get-there-was-not-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180883\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno&#8217;s Planet Vegan Burgers earns national nod. The road to get there was not easy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1140\" height=\"516\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/planet-vegan-burgers.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"people posing for a photo inside a food truck\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"attach_desc\">The Planet Vegan Burgers team poses for a 2020 Business Journal file photo.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tpublished on February 16, 2026 &#8211; 10:47 AM<br \/>Written by <a href=\"https:\/\/thebusinessjournal.com\/byline\/ben-hensley\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Hensley<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fresno\u2019s own Planet Vegan Burgers received some love from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) recently, recognized as one of 58 \u201cMust-Try Black-Owned Vegan Spots\u201d in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Launched as a <a href=\"https:\/\/thebusinessjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Diversity-2020-web.pdf#page=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">food truck in 2019 by partners Robert January, Joe Ellis and Mike McElroy, Planet Vegan Burgers<\/a> opened its permanent home at the GB3-anchored Park Place shopping center at Palm and Nees avenues in 2024. The team overcame the <a href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/post\/planet-vegan-fresno-food-truck-fire-explosion\/11999243\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">explosion of their truck in 2022<\/a>, though Ellis suffered burn injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis journey has been built on faith, resilience, community, and purpose,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUyaX8iAcJb\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Planet Vegan Burgers wrote in an Instagram<\/a> post. \u201cThank you to everyone who has supported, believed in, and grown with us. This acknowledgment belongs to all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PETA recognized the eateries as part of Black History Month celebrations. There were a dozen restaurants listed in California, with Planet Vegan the only one representing the Central Valley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom coast to coast, these Black-owned vegan restaurants honor cultural food traditions while making sure no animals were harmed,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DURzXA8jF3H\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">PETA Instagram post<\/a> announcing the businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Planet Vegan is located at 7845 N. Palm Ave., Ste. 108, and is open 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Fridays, noon to 9 p.m. on Saturdays and noon to 8 p.m. on Sundays.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t   <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Planet Vegan Burgers team poses for a 2020 Business Journal file photo. published on February 16, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113,85771,85772,1457,39865],"class_list":{"0":"post-180883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news","11":"tag-peta","12":"tag-planet-vegan-burgers","13":"tag-restaurant","14":"tag-vegan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}