Matsos Family Restaurant

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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
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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.