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Just hours before he was fatally shot on a college campus in Utah, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk delivered a message to hundreds of restaurant leaders gathered in Salt Lake City last week.

Wade Allen, president of Costa Vida, a fast-casual Mexican restaurant chain that started in Utah, was in the room when Kirk spoke at the annual Restaurantology summit, hosted by the Savory Fund, he told Fox News Digital.

He recalls Kirk's words not as political, but as deeply personal.

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"There was nothing political about the conversation [with Savory Fund co-founder and managing director Andrew K. Smith]," Allen said.

"In fact, the totality

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