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■ Mountain View Voice ■ MountainViewOnline.com ■ December 13, 2013
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ressed Juicery is refreshing. And it’s not just the store’s cold-pressed, fresh vegetable and fruit juice mixtures. It’s also the ethos behind the juice. “Sometimes health and wellness in general can be a little elitist at times,” said Hayden Slater, who opened Pressed with two close friends in Los Angeles in 2010. “I think Pressed’s whole mentality is just be better, whatever that means to individuals ... drink a juice a day, a juice a week, a juice a month; whatever you can afford, whatever you
can incorporate.” The Pressed team, which began as three friends who had all turned to juice for various health and personal reasons, opened its 17th location at the Stanford Shopping Center in late November. It’s a bare-bones store, with not much more than a counter the employees stand behind and a refrigerator full of coldpressed juices, but that’s the point (and is the same way at other Pressed locations). Customers can walk in, sample any of the 40-plus pre-bottled juices on the menu, make their