George Chatzopoulos, the longtime owner of Chip’s Family Restaurant in Orange, died Jan. 10 of brain cancer. He was 55.
Chip’s started in Orange but grew to four other Connecticut towns under Chatzopoulos: Fairfield, Southbury, Southington and Wethersfield.
Chatzopoulos’s sister and business partner, Dina Bajko, said that he died peacefully in her arms shortly after his brother and niece arrived from Greece, where Chatzopoulos was born.