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{{short description|British pizza takeaway chain}} |
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[[File:Tops Pizza, Wandsworth High Street 03.jpg|thumbnail|Tops Pizza, [[Wandsworth High Street]], London]] |
[[File:Tops Pizza, Wandsworth High Street 03.jpg|thumbnail|Tops Pizza, [[Wandsworth High Street]], London]] |
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'''Tops Pizza''' is a British pizza takeaway chain, with |
'''Tops Pizza Limited''' is a British pizza takeaway chain, with seventy stores in the [[United Kingdom]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Our Story |url=https://topspizza.co.uk/info/our-story |website=Tops Pizza |access-date=10 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310005640/https://topspizza.co.uk/info/our-story |archive-date=10 March 2024}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://topspizza.uk.com/|title=Tops Pizza|access-date=31 March 2016|archive-date=10 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160110012829/http://topspizza.uk.com/|url-status=live}}</ref> It is a private limited company.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/02229782|title=TOPS PIZZA LIMITED - Overview (free company information from Companies House)|access-date=31 March 2016|archive-date=9 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409101214/https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/02229782|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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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".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/jun/05/afghan-gang-pizza-takeaways|title=Afghan gang smuggled in compatriots to live and work in pizza takeaways|author=Robert Booth|work=the Guardian| |
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".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/jun/05/afghan-gang-pizza-takeaways|title=Afghan gang smuggled in compatriots to live and work in pizza takeaways|date=5 Jun 2009|author=Robert Booth|work=the Guardian|access-date=25 November 2019|archive-date=11 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191111133527/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/jun/05/afghan-gang-pizza-takeaways|url-status=live}}</ref> In March 2014, staff were caught on [[Closed-circuit television|CCTV]] climbing through the window of a closed Tops Pizza branch in [[Tunbridge Wells]], after they forgot their keys.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/does-this-man-have-a-13906/|title=Staff climb through the window of Tops Pizza in Camden Road, Tunbridge Wells, after forgetting keys|date=March 9, 2014|work=Kent Online|access-date=25 November 2019|archive-date=11 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191111133536/https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/does-this-man-have-a-13906/|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 10:25, 22 August 2024
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.
