Tops Pizza Limited is a British pizza takeaway chain, with seventy stores in the

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. The company opened its first store at 74

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Road in 1988, by British–Iranian Ali Morad Yazdi Nodoushani, then aged 28, and who had been a civil engineering student. It is a private limited company. 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". In March 2014, staff were caught on

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climbing through the window of a closed Tops Pizza branch in

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, after they forgot their keys.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tops Pizza 1988 establishments in England Pizza chains of the United Kingdom Pizza franchises Restaurants established in 1988