Located in Merrillville, Indiana, Aladdin Pita offers private and family dining areas, a banquet center for special events, and a hookah menu for novice and experienced tobacco enthusiasts. Aladdin Pita also offers a complete food mart, with products shipped directly from top-of-the-line Middle Eastern manufacturers in their original Middle Eastern packaging. Thursday and Sunday buffets are available from 4:00pm - 9:00pm. The owner of Aladdin Pita, Naseeb Mohammed, was found shot to death on Saturday, September 9, 2006, in what many believe to be a hate crime. He was known to be a generous man.