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The Dish: Family-run gyros restaurant celebrates 25 years in Lockport

The gyros ($5.80) with homemade tzatziki sauce and fresh tomatoes — along with a quarter-pound of fried zucchini ($2.60) — are the bread and butter of Nicky’s Gyros in Lockport. Photos by Benjamin Conboy/22nd Century Media
Sophie Theodossopoulos (left) and her sister Genie Hart run the restaurant, as a portrait of their father, Nicky, greets customers.
Benjamin Conboy, Assistant Editor
4:04 am CDT March 10, 2020
One day in 1995, Nicky Theodossopoulos called his son Tim’s high school. He told them the gyros restaurant he just opened in Lockport had a line out the front door.

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