From Dearborn to Ann Arbor

La Pita Fresh opens on Liberty

by Sally Mitani

posted 7/22/2011

Kassem Chammout (who goes by Kasey) knows how to run a full-service restaurant. His La Pita Dearborn is a large complex, including restaurant, nightclub, catering business, and banquet rooms. So to him, opening the stripped-down Ann Arbor version called La Pita Fresh sounds more like a vacation than a new business. He's rented a "flat" (as he calls it in somewhat British-inflected English) here and enjoys walking through campus. "I love this city. We opened our doors two weeks ago and have been serving 150 customers a day."

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