Tops Pizza

{{short description|British pizza takeaway chain}}

File:Tops Pizza, Wandsworth High Street 03.jpg, London]]

Tops Pizza Limited is a British pizza takeaway chain, with seventy stores in the United Kingdom.{{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}} 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.{{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}} It is a private limited company.{{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}}

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".{{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}} 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.{{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}}