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Offering classic Greek dishes, grinders & pizza amid local opera memorabilia.
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==Quick Facts==
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* 1981 - Opened
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* 1981 - Spiro Matsos learned to make salad dressing in his youth. So, when  he opened his restaurant he began mixing and serving his family's salad dressing. <ref> "Bottling Matsos." Daily Record, The (Wooster, OH), sec. Marc Kovac, editor, Local News, 18 May 2003. </ref>
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* 2003 - May, Encourage from his family he began producing salad dressing to be purchased in the marketplace. He renovated basement for dozens of empty glass bottles and other boxes with 16-oz containers with "Matsos Greek Dressing With Olive Oil." Spiro Matso delivery a batch to Buehler's using his salad wagon. A 16-oz bottle sold for $3. <ref> "Bottling Matsos." Daily Record, The (Wooster, OH), sec. Marc Kovac, editor, Local News, 18 May 2003. </ref>
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* 2003 - Salad dressing is based on a 100-year old family recipe. <ref>Food Writer, CAMI BOHRER. "Matsos Family Restaurant cooks dishes he got from his mother, grandmother."
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Daily Record, The (Wooster, OH), sec. News, 7 Jan. 2019. </ref>
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| title = Bottling Matsos
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| year = 2003
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| month = 05
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| day = 18
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| page = {{Cite page|123}}
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| title = [http://www.the-daily-record.com/article/20060212/news/302129962 Spiro Matsos on ...]
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| year = 2006
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| month = 02
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| day = 12
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| page = {{Cite page|123}}
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| section = S
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| author = Sprio [[Matsos (surname)|Matsos]]
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{{Daily Record article
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| title = Spiro Matsos Brings Taste of the Old World to New
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| year = 2006
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| month = 02
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| day = 12
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| page = {{Cite page|123}}
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| section = S
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| author = Bobby [[Warren (surname)|Warren]]
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{{Daily Record article
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| title = [http://www.the-daily-record.com/article/20090227/news/302279381 Matsos against new business serving liquor]
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| year = 2009
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| month = 02
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| day = 27
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| page = {{Cite page|123}}
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| section = S
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| author = Bryan [[Schaaf (surname)|Schaaf]]
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}}
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{{Daily Record article
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| title = Business owner takes plea to ban bar to library
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| year = 2009
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| month = 03
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| day = 19
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| page = {{Cite page|123}}
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| section = Local News
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| author = Linda [[Hall (surname)|Hall]]
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{{Daily Record article
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| title = [http://www.the-daily-record.com/news/20100412/20-questions-spiro-matsos 20 questions Spiro Matsos]
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| year = 2010
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| month = 04
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| day = 12
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| page = {{Cite page|123}}
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| section = S
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| author = Spiro [[Matsos (surname)|Matsos]]
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| title = http://www.the-daily-record.com/article/20121216/NEWS/312169519[ Matsos Family Restaurant celebrates third decade in downtown Wooster]
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| year = 2012
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| month = 12
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| day = 16
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| page = {{Cite page|123}}
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| section = Online
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| author = Abby [[Armbruster (surname)|Armbruster]]
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{{Daily Record article
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| title = Wooster Restaurant Owner Spiro Matsos Thankful To Be Part of Ohio Light Opera Year After Year: Owner of Wooster's Beloved Greek Family Restaurant Celebrates Relationship with Ohio Light Opera
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| year = 2013
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| month = 06
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| day = 09
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| page = {{Cite page|123}}
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| section = S
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| author = Libby [[Fackler (surname)|Fackler]]
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}}
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{{Daily Record article
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| title = Local Man Is Star Chef in NYC - Fred Maurer
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| year = 2015
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| month = 03
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| day = 31
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| page = {{Cite page|123}}
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| section = S
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| author = Emily [[Votaw (surname)|Votaw]]
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| title = [http://www.the-daily-record.com/news/20151201/fred-maurer-takes-second-to-throw-meal-together-on-chopped Fred Maurer takes a second to throw meal together on ‘Chopped’] Wooster native Fred Maurer, who used to work at Matsos restaurant in Wooster and now is a charcutier at Dickson's Meats in Manhattan, competed on Food Network's "Chopped." Find out more at http://goo.gl/G7oTeW
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| year = 2015
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| month = 12
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| day = 01
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| page = {{Cite page|123}}
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| section = S
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| author = Tami [[Mosser (surname)|Mosser]]
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{{Daily Record article
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| title = [http://www.the-daily-record.com/news/20160616/established-in-golden-age-of-downtown Established in ‘golden age of downtown’]
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| year = 2016
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| month = 06
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| day = 16
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| page = {{Cite page|123}}
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| section = S
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| author = Paul [[Doe (surname)|Locher]]
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{{Daily Record article
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| title = [http://www.the-daily-record.com/obituaries/20160908/pamela-matsos-66-wooster Pamela Matsos, 66, Wooster]
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| year = 2016
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| month = 09
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| day = 08
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| page = {{Cite page|123}}
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| section = Obituary
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| author = Spiro [[Doe (surname)|Matsos]]
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{{Daily Record article
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| title = In Memory of Pam Matsos
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| year = 2016
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| month = 09
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| day = 21
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| page = {{Cite page|123}}
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| section = S
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| author = Leslie [[Pearce-Keating (surname)|Pearce-Keating]]
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{{Daily Record article
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| title = Matsos Family Restaurant Cooks Dishes He Got From -
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| year = 2019
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| month = 01
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| day = 07
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| page = {{Cite page|123}}
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| section = S
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| author = Cami [[Bohrer (surname)|Bohrer]]
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{{Daily Record article
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| title = Change of Heart - Matsos Reconsiders Move To
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| year = 2019
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| month = 04
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| day = 30
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| page = {{Cite page|123}}
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| section = S
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| author = Tami [[Mosser (surname)|Mosser]]
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{{Daily Record article
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| title = Pamela M. Matsos Endowed Scholarship Established
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| year = 2019
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| month = 10
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| day = 31
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| page = {{Cite page|123}}
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Latest revision as of 14:47, 9 May 2023

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About
Name
  • Matsos Family Restaurant
Accommodation and Food Services
  • Food Services and Drinking Places
Brands
  • Greek, Pizza
Services
  • Restaurant
Facts
Founded
  • 1981
    Wooster,Ohio
Number of employees
  • 25 persons 2022
Related
Key Persons
Founders
Location
    • 154 W. Liberty St., Wooster, 44691, Ohio
      1981
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Offering classic Greek dishes, grinders & pizza amid local opera memorabilia.

Quick Facts

  • 1981 - Opened
  • 1981 - Spiro Matsos learned to make salad dressing in his youth. So, when he opened his restaurant he began mixing and serving his family's salad dressing. [1]
  • 2003 - May, Encourage from his family he began producing salad dressing to be purchased in the marketplace. He renovated basement for dozens of empty glass bottles and other boxes with 16-oz containers with "Matsos Greek Dressing With Olive Oil." Spiro Matso delivery a batch to Buehler's using his salad wagon. A 16-oz bottle sold for $3. [2]
  • 2003 - Salad dressing is based on a 100-year old family recipe. [3]

Newspaper articles

  • February 12, 2006: "Spiro Matsos Brings Taste of the Old World to New" by Bobby Warren, The Daily Record, p. 123.
  • March 19, 2009: "Business owner takes plea to ban bar to library" by Linda Hall, The Daily Record, p. 123.
  • June 09, 2013: "Wooster Restaurant Owner Spiro Matsos Thankful To Be Part of Ohio Light Opera Year After Year: Owner of Wooster's Beloved Greek Family Restaurant Celebrates Relationship with Ohio Light Opera" by Libby Fackler, The Daily Record, p. 123.
  • January 07, 2019: "Matsos Family Restaurant Cooks Dishes He Got From -" by Cami Bohrer, The Daily Record, p. 123.
  • October 31, 2019: "Pamela M. Matsos Endowed Scholarship Established", The Daily Record, p. 123.
  1. "Bottling Matsos." Daily Record, The (Wooster, OH), sec. Marc Kovac, editor, Local News, 18 May 2003.
  2. "Bottling Matsos." Daily Record, The (Wooster, OH), sec. Marc Kovac, editor, Local News, 18 May 2003.
  3. Food Writer, CAMI BOHRER. "Matsos Family Restaurant cooks dishes he got from his mother, grandmother." Daily Record, The (Wooster, OH), sec. News, 7 Jan. 2019.