The Pita Shop, a locally-owned family business started by husband and wife Omar and Susan Aldmour, has expanded its restaurant after 4 years.
Susan and Omar Aldmour met at San Marcos’ old Cedar’s Cafe, a downtown Mediterranean restaurant that used to be located on the block where The Local is now. Susan started working at Cedar’s in 2006 and Omar’s uncle owned the cafe. When Omar moved to San Marcos from Jordan to work on his Master’s degree, he also started working there. And that’s where their story, as well as the Pita Shop’s story, began. They went on to get married and now have a daughter named Emily, But the Cedar’s Cafe was knocked down to make way for The Local. And the Aldmours found themselves without jobs. Then they both found themselves in jobs they weren’t happy with.
“We both did different jobs after Cedar’s closed. But we both really did not like our jobs,” Omar Aldmour said. “And we said ‘you know what, we’re both good at cooking’ — she did that for eight years at Cedar’s, I did it for six years — so we said ‘we’re going to get back to it.'”
