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Pappas Restaurants, Inc. (or simply Pappas Restaurants) is a privately held restaurant chain in the Southern and Southwestern United States. It is headquartered in Houston , Texas. [ 1 ] Its brands include Pappas Bros. Steakhouse, Pappas Seafood, Pappas Bar-B-Q, Pappas Burger, Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen, Pappasito's, and Yia Yia Mary's.
According to Niko Niko's official site, Chrisanthios Fetokakis opened a walk-up window restaurant on May 1, 1977, earning $15 the first day it operated. [1] After an initial struggle to open, Fetokakis received assistance from Pete Pappas of the Pappas Restaurants franchise. [1] Eventually, Fetokakis' son Dimitri became owner of the restaurant.
Two Pesos was a Tex-Mex restaurant chain in the U.S. state of Texas that opened in 1982 in Houston. It was similar to Taco Cabana but Two Pesos never opened in Taco Cabana's home market of San Antonio. The Two Pesos chain was sold to Taco Cabana in 1993 after losing a drawn-out trade dress suit that appeared before the United States Supreme Court.
Benicia was the original county seat of Solano County. The lower floor of the Benicia Masonic Hall, built in 1850 with lumber donated by Benicia founder Robert Semple on land donated by Alexander Riddell, was used as the County court room and offices prior to the completion of Benicia's city hall. [14] In 1858, the county seat was moved to ...
Yia Yia Mary's was owned by Pappas Restaurants and served Greek cuisine at restaurants in Uptown Houston and William P. Hobby Airport.The Uptown restaurant's interior had a "soaring wood-beamed ceiling and stately stone walls", according to the Houston Press, and featured a wood-burning grill and "omnipresent" televisions. [2]
In 1917 Arthur Pappas and his cousin Louis Canota founded an ice cream shop in Manchester. By 1919 they had expanded the business into a restaurant, now known as the Puritan Backroom, and in 1949 they added a function room. In 1974 Charlie Pappas, grandfather of Chris Pappas and co-owner of the Puritan at the time, invented the chicken tender ...
The singer and actor has ties to Fresno’s Greek community and also the opera scene. His father, Jim Pappas, has been presbyter (lead pastor) at the parish of St. George Greek Orthodox church ...
The Puritan Backroom is a 2020 James Beard Foundation Award America's Classic restaurant in Manchester, New Hampshire. The restaurant serves Greek-influenced New England cuisine and is known for their mudslides and for chicken tenders, which they invented in 1974. [1] [2] [3]