Founded in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1998, Taziki’s Mediterranean Café is a fast-casual restaurant franchise specializing in Greek and Mediterranean foods in the forms of gyros, sandwiches, soups and salads.

Taziki’s was the first franchise in the nation to receive REAL certification from the U.S. Healthful Food Council, indicating a focus on vegetables, fruits and whole grains prepared from scratch. The restaurant’s locations are clustered predominantly in the southeastern U.S.