Philip Anson - Founder EVOL burritos

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Philip Anson had a deep interest in food from a young age.  He began working in restaurant kitchens at the age of 15, and continued to do so through high school and into college in Denver, CO, where he attended the University of Denver.  After receiving his BA in Communications in 1999, Anson went to work for Roy Yamaguchi's Euro-Asian Fushion Restaurant, Roy's, and helped open and run that restaurant from 1999-2002.  In early 2002, on a rock climbing trip in Joshua Tree, Anson realized that he was bored and hungry for something more entrepreneurial than his mundane Line Cook Job at Roy's.  On that trip, he decided that he would try his hand at making burritos in his Eldorado Springs Cabin, and sell them hot out of coolers to rock climbers.  Although that initial idea flopped, Anson pursued the burrito concept by selling them made fresh daily to convenience stores and coffee shops in Boulder, CO.  Eight years later, the company has grown and evolved into a broadly distributed national consumer packaged goods brand.  As CEO of Phil's Fresh Foods, Anson has grown EVOL Burritos from a one man show selling 500 burritos per week to local mom and pop coffee shops to a nationally recognized multi-million dollar natural foods / lifestyle brand selling in more than 4,000 points of distribution.  In March of 2009, Anson attracted a substantial amount of capital from BIG (Burrito Investment Group), lead by Bear Naked Granola co-founders Tom Spier & Brendan Synnott.  With a cash infusion and all-star management team, EVOL Burritos is poised to continue its aggressive growth pattern and hopes to become the number one selling burrito brand in the nation.

 

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