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New restaurants to replace The O

By Bobbo Craig, For The Pitt News • November 16, 2020

Mero Restaurant Group, a locally owned and operated restaurant company, will soon put two new restaurants in the former Forbes Avenue home of The O.

Pitt alumni look back on 60 years of The O

By Ashton Crawley, Senior Staff Writer • April 29, 2020

The shop, founded in May 1960, was famous for its hot dogs and gigantic stacks of fries that were comfort food to many generations of Pitt students.

Longtime manager confirms The O’s closure

By Rebecca Johnson and Jon Moss • April 18, 2020

The restaurant, located at the corner of South Bouquet Street and Forbes Avenue was opened by brothers Sydney and Morris Simon in 1960, and has been owned and run since the mid-2000s by Sydney’s children Terry Campasano and Bruce Simon.

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