Mosa Sandwich Makers has quietly opened at 9801 South Tacoma Way. If the name sounds vaguely familiar, you’ve probably had some sandwiches in Tacoma over the years.
Hashed Mousa and two of his sons, Abdulghani and Adel Mosa, are behind the new Lakewood venture. It’s not affiliated with the similarly named MSM Deli, the 30-year-old shop on Sixth Avenue, but Mousa is related personally and was professionally.
Mousa worked at MSM for more than 20 years, starting in 1998 after emigrating to the United States from Yemen. His mother married the owner of MSM Deli, Mike Muthala, also a Yemeni immigrant, who adopted him as his own. Familial strings frayed around 2021, when Mousa learned that Jamal Muthala, technically his half-brother, had taken financial control of the family business a decade prior. It led to a legal dispute in which Mousa alleged he had been improperly paid for years’ worth of work and his twin sons had also been working as minors without pay, as The News Tribune reported. Mousa thought he would have a stake in the family business but learned that opportunity was never in the cards.
The family received a total of $110,000 in a settlement agreement, according to their attorney at the time. Jamal Muthala did not admit any wrongdoing, liability or fault under the terms of the agreement…