[EXCLUSIVE] Familiar Mediterranean Eatery Returning to Dunwoody

In a puzzling move, Pita Mediterranean Street Food is returning to Dunwoody less than three years after leaving the area.  A new franchise of Pita Mediterranean Street Food is coming to the Kroger-anchored Orchard Park shopping center (2090 Dunwoody Club Drive).  The pita shop will occupy an 1,800 square foot space vacated this past January by DaVinci's Pizzeria. 

Pita's former Dunwoody location was situated in an 1,800 square foot space in Perimeter Village, the former Walmart-anchored shopping center at 4709 Ashford Dunwoody Road, a little less than four miles away.  The restaurant opened in early 2015 and closed in early 2022.  WOK Provisions, a Szechuan Chinese restaurant from Gary Lin, opened in its place in August 2023.  

In Dunwoody, Pita faces no immediate competition from national chain Cava, but its new location is located just over two miles from Yoffi, a new Mediterranean food spot from DASH Hospitality in Dunwoody Village that opened in July and offers superior food.  

Nour Rabai opened the first Pita Mediterranean Street Food in Peachtree City in 2011.  In the years since, Rabai has expanded both within Georgia and to surrounding states.  At one point he expressed his intention to be at 200 units.  

This past September Rabai and his now Fairburn-based Pita Franchising, LLC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.  Among the ten creditors listed in the filing was "Pita Dunwoody, LLC," whose claim was described as a "business dispute."   

Today, after other closures on Piedmont Avenue in Midtown and West Crossville Road in Roswell, there are 24 Pita locations in Georgia with six more spread between Alabama, Florida, and South Carolina. 

Have you been to Pita Mediterranean Street Food?  Are you excited for the return of Pita Mediterranean Street Food to Dunwoody?  What type of restaurant would you like to see open in Dunwoody?

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