On the occasion of opening a new operation in Chicago, Next Gen’s Andre Menezes discusses the evolution of plant-based chicken, Tindle, and how his company plans to change the way people think about alt-meat options.
Roughly 50 billion chickens are slaughtered for food every year, yet plant-based alt-chicken has been much slower to catch on than alternatives for beef — although that trend may soon change thanks to serial entrepreneur Andre Menezes, CEO of Next Gen Foods.
Menezes, along with his co-founder Timo Recker, launched Next Gen in Singapore in 2020 to create “ridiculously good chicken made from plants.” Thanks to COVID, they spent the first two years honing their formula,…
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