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Aladdin's Eatery
Private
Industry Restaurant
Founded 1994 (1994) in Lakewood, Ohio, US
Headquarters Lakewood, Ohio
Number of locations
30 (2019)
Area served
Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania
Products Lebanese cuisine
Owner Fady and Sally Chamoun
Baklava
Baklava, a typical Middle Eastern cake served at Aladdin's Eatery

Aladdin's Eatery is a chain of franchised restaurants in the Midwestern United States and the Southeastern United States, specializing in Lebanese cuisine. Adapted to American tastes, the sites are fast casual restaurants that also offer take out.

The firm, Aladdin's Eatery Systems, Inc, is headquartered in Lakewood, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. Besides Ohio, the company also has locations in Indiana, Virginia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.

History

Aladdin's Eatery was founded by Fady and Sally Chamoun in 1994. Since then it has become an extremely lucrative chain of restaurants. Fady Chamoun had arrived in the US from Lebanon in 1972 and worked at Little Caesars full-time while studying at the University of Michigan. Over the next twenty years he rose within Little Caesars, eventually running 40 franchises, which he sold, leaving him with $10,000 after repaying his debts, which he used to help fund a site in Lakewood, OH.

By 2004 the chain had 17 outlets and Chamoun won the Northeast Ohio Ernst & Young Retail Entrepreneur Of The Year award. Chamoun had established Jasmine's Bakery in Cleveland in 1997 to supply all his restaurants and by 2004 it was employing 40 people and making sales of $2 million.

In 2013 the chain was reported to have 30 sites in 5 US states.

See also

  • List of Lebanese restaurants
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