09/15/2026
🎉❤️ Wishing the Happiest 101st Birthday to our matriarch — our beloved Zenia Roussos!❤️🎉
This past weekend, we celebrated the 101st Birthday of a truly special woman whose life, love, strength, and dedication have helped shape the Roussos legacy for more than five decades.
In 1974, Zenia and her husband, George, opened Roussos Restaurant on the Causeway, beginning a journey that would become such an important part of their family’s story — and the history of our community. Alongside their children, John, Jimmy, and Georgia, they built a restaurant that became a beloved gathering place for so many.
Then, in 1979, Hurricane Frederic demolished the restaurant, changing the course of their lives and impacting not only their family, but the 80 employees who were part of the Roussos family. With determination and resilience, they started over and relocated downtown in the Fort Conde area in 1981.
Over the years, Roussos Restaurant eventually moved to the Eastern Shore, and the next chapter of the family business began when Georgia took over and transformed the business into Georgia Roussos Catering— continuing the tradition of exceptional food, hospitality, and bringing people together.
Through it all, Zenia has remained at the heart of the Roussos family.
She is deeply loved by all the family, cherished by generations of employees, appreciated by countless customers, and beloved throughout the community. Her warmth, kindness, strength, and genuine love for people are a part of the legacy she has created.
YiaYia, we are so grateful for you and for everything you have given to your family, your business, your employees, and our community!! Your legacy lives on every day through the people you have touched and the family business you helped build.
Please join us in wishing this incredible woman the HAPPIEST 101st BIRTHDAY!🥳🎂❤️
Happy Birthday, Zenia! We love you!❤️