About 100 years ago, Louis Pappamichalopoulos invented a new dish: the Greek Salad with Potato Salad. It was designed to bulk up the calorie count for soldiers fighting in the First World War, who needed all the fuel they could get.
“At the time, it was about adding some heartiness,” Joshua Varon, Operating Partner at Louis Pappas Restaurant Group, told What Now on Wednesday. “And when he came back, he opened his first restaurant in Tarpon Springs, around 1924.”
Over time, the Pappas family continued operating the restaurant, and the family business lived on in various forms. Louis Pappas, Jr., who began working at the restaurant at the age of 13, went on to consolidate the business, buying out his father and uncles. The restaurant has continued in its present form since the early 2000’s, during which time Louis Pappas Fresh Greek has expanded to a total of five locations…