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Vegan fast casual schooling San Diego

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August 16, 2021

Plant Power Fast Food, a vegan fast casual based in San Diego, is opening within the North Torrey Pines Living and Learning Neighborhood development on the campus of the University of California in San Diego.

Marking the chain's ninth location, the restaurant is Plant Power's first foray into a mixed-use commercial-residential development on a university campus. It features indoor and outdoor dining, mobile ordering and pick-up and will offer Uber Eats and Postmates third-party delivery services to the local community, according to a company press release.

"Gen Z'ers are the most educated college students in history and it's only natural that they would demand a plant-based, sustainable, and cruelty-free diet, which has proven to be best for both human health and our eco-system," co-founder and Co-CEO Mitch Wallis said in the release.

Co-founder and Co-CEO Jeffrey Harris said the chain was on track to have 15 restaurants open by the close of 2022

The company opened in Sacramento in May of this year and has six locations in development, including its first location outside of California in Las Vegas. Stores will also open in Hollywood near the Paramount Studios in San Clemente as well as in the Carmel Mountain area of San Diego.

"Everyone loves fast-food, but no one really believes that the outdated meat and dairy fast-food model is very good for their health, the environment or animal welfare," Harris said. "People really do want to make better choices and that's what we're all about."