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title: "Female Fast Risers - Tara Gilad"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/c2ff4b24-90e7-481f-84b6-8da409680d94
source: "Franchising.com"
original_url: https://www.franchising.com/articles/female_fast_risers__tara_gilad.html
author: "Franchise Update Magazine"
category: "General"
published: 2021-03-20T07:00:00.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:29:09.415Z
image: https://imgs.franchising.com/art/articles/5835_plate.jpg
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# Female Fast Risers - Tara Gilad

**TL;DR:** Tara Gilad, President and Co-Founder of Vitality Bowls, attributes her success to identifying a healthy menu and having talented team members. She has overcome challenges as a female in a male-dominated industry and achieved a work-life balance while growing the business.

*By Franchise Update Magazine, originally published in Franchising.com on 2021-03-20. [Read the original](https://www.franchising.com/articles/female_fast_risers__tara_gilad.html).*

## Story

**Name:** Tara Gilad **Brand:** Vitality Bowls **Title:** President, Co-Founder **Age:** 46 **Years in franchising:** 6 **No. of units:** 76 open; 146 total open and in development **What attracted you to franchising?** Our first few locations were well-received and we wanted to bring our healthy food to more communities.

We felt everyone should have access to nutritious and delicious superfoods with a focus on allergy safety. **What was your first job in franchising?** I worked at a Round Table Pizza in college.

**What do you attribute your success to?** Identifying a healthy menu that is also delicious, along with having talented and dedicated team members. **What challenges and obstacles have you overcome in your career?

** Being a female in a male-dominated industry as well as going through a pregnancy and raising two children while growing an expanding business. It was also challenging to find a work/life balance when we started. In the last couple of years, as we’ve grown and been able to bring on more team members, I’ve finally achieved this.

**Describe your journey to your current position:** I started creating recipes in my kitchen before we opened our first location in 2011. We opened our second location 5 months later, and our third a year later. We began franchising in 2014 and today have 146 locations either open or in development.

**What are your future career goals?** To maintain my current role as president and continue to expand the company and bring healthy foods to all communities. Since fewer than 10% of brands ever launch more than 100 open stores, it has been a personal goal for me to try to achieve this by 2022.

## Entities

- Franchising.com (publication)
- General (sector)
- Vitality Bowls (company)
- Round Table Pizza (company)
- Tara Gilad (person)
- franchising growth (topic)
- female leadership (topic)
- healthy menu (topic)

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Originally reported by Franchise Update Magazine, Franchising.com (https://www.franchising.com/articles/female_fast_risers__tara_gilad.html). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/c2ff4b24-90e7-481f-84b6-8da409680d94).