Vegan Styled Life

Nicole Marquis, President and CEO of Marquis & Co., LLC is the  owner of HipCityVeg, the wildly successful 100% plant-based fast-casual  restaurant that opened in Philadelphia in 2012. She followed that  success with a second HipCityVeg on the University of Pennsylvania  campus. Marquis, who has been vegan for almost a decade, considers it  her mission to make a delicious plant-based diet convenient and  available everywhere.  Originally from the Philadelphia area, Ms. Marquis maintains close  ties to Puerto Rico, where her mother was born and raised. She studied  at Temple University before moving to Los Angeles for graduate studies.  Upon her return to Philadelphia, Ms. Marquis was frustrated by the  dearth of vegan options in her hometown. She addressed that problem in  her typical fashion and is now recognized as a leader in the  Philadelphia food renaissance, making healthy plant-based food  convenient and even sexy. Following the