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Tops Pizza Limited is a British pizza takeaway chain, with seventy stores in the United Kingdom.[1] The company opened its first store at 74 Fulham Palace Road in 1988, by British–Iranian Ali Morad Yazdi Nodoushani, then aged 28, and who had been a civil engineering student.[2] It is a private limited company.[3]
In June 2009, the leaders of an Afghan criminal gang received long prison sentences for smuggling 230 Afghans into Europe, many to work in "branches of well known franchises Tops Pizza, GoGo Pizza and Perfect Pizza across southern England".[4] In March 2014, staff were caught on CCTV climbing through the window of a closed Tops Pizza branch in Tunbridge Wells, after they forgot their keys.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Our Story". Tops Pizza. Archived from the original on 10 March 2024. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
- ^ "Tops Pizza". Archived from the original on 10 January 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
- ^ "TOPS PIZZA LIMITED - Overview (free company information from Companies House)". Archived from the original on 9 April 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
- ^ Robert Booth (5 Jun 2009). "Afghan gang smuggled in compatriots to live and work in pizza takeaways". the Guardian. Archived from the original on 11 November 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ "Staff climb through the window of Tops Pizza in Camden Road, Tunbridge Wells, after forgetting keys". Kent Online. March 9, 2014. Archived from the original on 11 November 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2019.