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Recently appointed CEO of True Food Kitchen, Christine Barone still recalls the beverage she enjoyed on her initial visit as a customer four years prior.

It was the Hangover RX Refresher. The drink, along with what she calls her “amazing meal,” prompted Barone to keep a copy of the menu for years — along with her pleasant memory.

A former senior executive at Starbucks, Barone was hired in September to oversee True Food Kitchen's operation and brand expansion. That includes its first location on the west coast of Florida, in the Waterside Shops in Naples, which opened March 28.
Phoenix-based True Food Kitchen is a wellness-based restaurant concept founded by famed restaurateur Sam Fox of Fox Restaurant Concepts and integrative medicine expert and author Dr. Andrew Weil. True Food has 17 other locations, including Chicago, Atlanta, Denver and several in Texas and California. It plans to open six more in 2017.