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The Olympia Cafe was a fictional diner or greasy spoon featured in a recurring Saturday Night Live sketch. The staff, led by the late John Belushi as Pete Dionasopolis, were Greeks. As various guest stars discovered, only three items on the long menu could actually be ordered successfully: the cheeseburger (memorably pronounced "Cheezborger" by Belushi), chips (pronounced "Cheep"), and Pepsi. Attempts to order Coke were invariably met with the retort, "No Coke! Pepsi!".

According to Don Novello, who penned the first Olympia Cafe sketch, the diner was based on the the Billy Goat Tavern on N. Michigan Ave in Chicago, which is still operating (and part of a small chain).[1]

Olympia is a Greek town after which many restaurants were named. During the 1970s, there was a real-life Olympia Cafe on the Upper West Side of Manhattan which was very similar to the diner in the sketch.

See also

  1. ^ Sullivan, Paul. "Cheezborger, Cheezborger, Cheezborger! The Billy Goat Tavern's Walls Tell a Thousand Stories." The Chicago Tribune 9 March 1984: NS1+
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