POSTED AT 11:32 PM ON Sep. 30, 2012

Gyros, pita chips and feta cheese are just a few staples of Mediterranean cuisine IU graduate Shadi Khoury serves throughout Indiana.

Khoury graduated from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs in 2011 and now owns In a Pita, a Mediterranean food truck business.

He runs the business out of Indianapolis.

Students who went to GLOWfest this month may have seen him peddling pitas out of his electric blue 1987 Chevrolet box truck.

My personal favorite is the falafel, Khoury said. But the honey and feta pita chips are pretty darn good, too. Sweet, salty, crunchy, soft, its a party in your mouth.

Khoury, whose parents own a Mediterranean restaurant in Indianapolis, said deciding on a business plan was easy.

It seemed like a dream to own my business and sell food because I love to cook, he said. And I was born into the cuisine.

But running the business, Khoury said, isnt as easy as dreaming up an idea. He said operating a food truck is risky. Its always a gamble picking what special events to go to, because he said he never knows how many people will show up or what the weather will be like.

A lot of people assume that having a food truck is so easy, that you just park, sell food and then you are a millionaire, Khoury said. Thats definitely not the case.

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IU grad finds success with start-up pita business