Min Choe
Chief Executive Officer
The company behind Tso Chinese · Austin, Texas
Tso nice to meet you.
We are an Austin-based Chinese-American restaurant brand with five kitchens. We deliver the food ourselves, with our own drivers and software we wrote from scratch. It all started with one restaurant in West Austin in 2005.
Hop on. I'll drive.
Hungry?
Order at tsochinese.com5
kitchens in Austin and Round Rock, all takeout and delivery.
2017
The first Tso opened on August 23 and made a profit in month one.
Our story
The route so far.
Eight stops, from one restaurant in West Austin to kitchen number five. Crabigail knows the way.
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1West Austin
2005
In 2005 Min and Jenna Choe, husband and wife, opened their first Chinese restaurant in West Austin. They fell in love with the business fast. Over the next eleven years they opened several more restaurants and had three kids.
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2Tsoftware
2016
It was April 2016. Angell went looking for software we could buy off the shelf: an online ordering site, a back end and delivery logistics that would all work together. Surely some Shopify-slash-WordPress-slash-POS setup would get us a clunky but working website. To our dismay, it didn't exist.
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3Tso Cherrywood
2017
On August 23, 2017, Tso Chinese Takeout & Delivery opened its doors for the first time. To our own disbelief, it worked right away. The first month was profitable, and in 2018, our first full year, we did $1.56 million in sales, nearly double what we had projected.
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4Tso Arboretum
2019
After a strong 2018 and first half of 2019 at Cherrywood, it was time to find out whether we could do it twice. We spent months looking and landed on a struggling shopping center in northwest Austin. For a restaurant that doesn't need foot traffic or a fancy facade, it was perfect.
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5#tsogiving
2020
The four founders had started #tsogiving to help neighbors who were having a hard time. In the spring of 2020 that was a lot of people. In April, cars lined up outside Tso Arboretum and we handed out $40,000 worth of food: meals from Tso and Snap Kitchen, water from Richard's Rainwater, tea from Zhi Tea and more than 5,000 eggs.
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6Tso South Congress
2021
South Austin had been asking for a Tso, so we ended 2021 with a bang and opened kitchen number three on South Congress on November 17.
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7Tso Round Rock
2023
On February 1, 2023, we opened our first kitchen outside Austin, in Round Rock. The grand opening was packed, and even dragons showed up.
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8Tso Menchaca
2025
Kitchen number five opened on April 18, 2025, at 1824 W. Slaughter Lane in South Austin, with induction woks, walk-in kiosks and the same Tso favorites as everywhere else.
The crew
Four founders and one crab.
Angell Tsang
Chief AI Officer & CTO
Jenna Choe
Chief Culinary Officer
Eunice Tsang
Co-Founder
Crabigail
Delivery Master
Backers
Our advisors include former leaders of Whole Foods and Wendy's and the founders of Torchy's Tacos and Tiff's Treats.
- Walter Robb · Former Co-CEO, Whole Foods
- Dave Near · Former COO, Wendy's
- Mike Rypka · Founder & CEO, Torchy's Tacos
- Leon Chen · Founder & CEO, Tiff's Treats
- Brett Hurt · Founder, Bazaarvoice and data.world
- Eric Silverstein · Founder, The Peached Tortilla, Bar Peached and Peached Social
- Brian Spaly · Founder, Trunk Club and Bonobos
Autolane · Austin
Some of our deliveries now show up in a self-driving Tesla.
Since July 2026 we've worked with Autolane, which runs a supervised fleet of autonomous Tesla Model Ys in Austin. Autolane runs the cars and the people who supervise them. Nash decides which orders ride in a car and which go with a human courier.
An Autolane supervisor loads the food at our kitchen, and the car takes it to the curb. It started at Cherrywood and is now live at four of our five kitchens.
#tsogiving
Since 2020 we've handed out free curbside meals, fed teachers, winter-storm crews and summer campers, and in March 2025 your crab rangoon orders raised over $3K for Amplify Austin Day.
See every #tsogiving drive
Careers
Come cook with us.
We hire cooks, order specialists, store managers and drivers. Drivers average $8 an order, paid weekly, plus $2 in Tso food credit for every delivery.