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Can a restaurant that serves healthy food and greasy burgers survive?
By Devlin Smith •
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While grabbing a hamburger one day, Mark Avila saw other patronspairing their burgers with smoothies from a nearby juice bar,mixing health food with a great, greasy burger. Why not combine thetwo concepts into a great, healthy burger?
In 1998, Avila opened his first Topz in Sherman Oaks,California, serving lean beef, turkey and vegetarian burgers."My goal is for my business to surpass my lifetime and haveTopz worldwide," Avila says. Topz began franchising thisyear.
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