Clark Ewing

Early Life
Clark was born in Vernon, British Columbia to Ben Ewing an immigrant from Scotland and Eliza Ewing (Van Buren) from Seattle. He was raised in Vernon and attended Harwood Elementary School and Vernon Secondary School, he graduated in 1985. He later attended UBC for his bachelor of management.

Pre-Business Life
Clark started interning at the corporate office of Kaya Hotels Corp where he grew fond of the Asian-Thai cuisine from taking Thai employee lunches from the break room. Four months after feasting upon employee lunches, Ewing was given the pink slip and sent home. Until he took a $20,000 loan out from the TBC and applied for his business license to create Thai Pandas in an old pharmacy he purchased in Vancouver. It started off slow and he had amateur chefs working below minimum wage but later got his big break from Vincent DeGracia the famed restauranteur, who invested $5,000,000 into Ewing’s pockets. Ewing then sold the old pharmacy store for an additional $15k and used it for severance pay for his then fired crew.

Business Life
On March 7, 2002, Thai Pandas was relaunched in Vancouver in a state of the art two storey building. It had an authentic Thai food experienced crew and five star waiters.

By the end of 2003, Ewing profited $1,250,000 from his restaurant alone. More investors caught wind of his successful restaurant an expanded it into a national franchise.

In the present, Ewing has over 100 Thai Pandas locations across Canada. He is estimated to be worth 40 million dollars, he lives in Richmond with his wife Michelle and his daughter Lauren.