The Secret to Sriracha Hot Sauce’s Success

David Tran arrived in the U.S. as a refugee from Vietnam and started making hot sauce by hand; four decades later, his rooster-logo Sriracha sits in refrigerators worldwide. A tour of his Irwindale, California factory traces how a homemade recipe with no marketing budget became a condiment people put on nearly everything.

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