Smillie's Family Restaurant

02/20/2026

02/13/2026

Today is fish fry day!!!! We will be here until 7pm. Dine in, take out, or delivery. Our number is 724-547-5611. Cash only.

02/12/2026

Tomorrow starts our fish fry!!!! We will be open until 7pm. You can eat in, take out, or get delivery. Our number is 724-547-5611. We only accept cash.

12/01/2025

It’s that time of the year!!! Grinch is going to be here at Smillie’s on December 20th 2025 from 9am-11am. Each kid gets a stocking when visiting the grinch with meal purchase. While supplies last!!

02/25/2025

It’s that time of year again FISH FRY!!!! It’s starting this Friday. We will be open until 7pm. Eat in, pick up, or delivery our phone number is 724-547-5611. Cash only.

12/09/2024

It’s that time of year again! The grinch is coming to Smillie’s Family Restaurant to have breakfast with the kids from 9-11. I’m sorry but no cards, cash only.

04/15/2024

It is with an extremely heavy heart that we must share with you that our Father, George E. Smillie, has passed on from this world to the next. While I tell you this with epic sadness in my heart we do take solace in knowing that Dad no longer hurts, May he find his voice again in heaven and maybe even a decent bowling alley to get some strikes in. Dad never lost his bright outlook on people. Throughout the process he would always ask my sister if “She was ok” and she’d say “Are you ok?” and his reply would be that he’s ok if she’s ok. His mind was always with him right to the end. His intent to care and shield his family stuck as well. Sadly his body just couldn’t carry him anymore.

We’d like to thank everyone who sent cards (pics of the card walls included) to the Restaurant for us to share with him. Your well wishes and notes mean much to all of us and Dad definitely enjoyed the memories you brought back to him. Some folks going way back to times before my sister and I were even here and Murphy Mart was still king. Dad passed at 69 years of age. In his time on Earth he touched the lives of many people along the way. We always thought this but we know it now through your notes and prayers. We would also like to thank the staff in Select Specialty out of Latrobe. Dad was with them since mid-December and was treated very well. Frankly the best treatment he received from any “medical place” throughout Dad’s whole medical journey. Special thank you to Molly and Becky for tending to dad in his final hours so gracefully so that we could all just focus on being with him. Thank you Doug on Dialysis. You could have been an honory Smillie for how much time you spent in our circle. we appreciate your great attention to dad in his time of need for your services.

Our father before opening Smillie’s in 1995 worked for Murphy Mart & G.C. Murphy Company in their restaurants starting out at the Dishwasher and working his way up to Restaurant Manager. He traveled where the company needed his ability and we followed him. When dad wasn’t cooking and we were young he shared his love of Pizza, Bowling, Parks, and for the time we lived in Riverdale, Maryland a regular disc golfer. Not by any professional standards mind you as Dad’s outfit of choice was always black work pants and a white T shirt. Maybe add flannel if necessary. He had a quite a few frisbees and other things he tinkered with that looked like they might pass for a Frisbee and fly. It combined all things he loved as he could be outside to do it, there was trees, and it was a family friendly activity. Sadly when we moved back home in the summer of 93’ he wasn’t able to find any courses out here and hung it up to concentrate on another dream he’d had for a while. His own Restaurant.

Dad will be viewed at Kepple Graft Funeral Home in Greensburg PA (below Greensburg Salem Middle School) on Thursday, 4/18/24, 4pm to 7pm, with funeral services held Friday, 4/19/24 promptly at noon. Further internment at Westmoreland County Memorial Park to join the rest of the Smillie Clan who’ve gone before us. In the time to come we look forward to sharing more stories from the George Smillie archives as well as hearing some of your own.

Thank you.

02/18/2024

It is with a very heavy heart that I inform you that our father and owner of Smillie’s Family Restaurant is having very serious health complications. Back in September 23’ he had multiple strokes and after months of fighting sadly while his mind is solid and willing the body is very tired. Regularly I’m asked around town how our father is because he hasn’t been at the restaurant for quite sometime. Sadly all those years of restaurant work not only for himself (Smillie’s opened in November 1995) but for Murphy Mart and G.C. Murphy Co were not kind to his body at all.

Our dad had an extremely big heart and love for all. He took great pride in offering his food to the surrounding Mt. Pleasant and Scottdale areas and always tried to do right by all; sometimes to his own detriment. I can remember the summer of 1995 pretty well. My dad was recently let go from G.C. Murphy Co with the last restaurant he managed for the company in Monroeville Mall closed. We had all gone to the Westmoreland Fair and for some reason Dad felt he was led to drive to Mt. Pleasant after instead of returning to our home area of Forbes Road. Just to be clear, and to my Dad let me tell you this was VERY important, the Smillie’s are from “The Patch” or “Number 6”. Anyways so he just drove on into MTP and kinda just ended up at where he would open a business in the future with his brother Donald, sister Tammie, my mom Joan, childhood friend Mark Fedornak, local icon himself Bill Tucci, my sister, and myself.

Over the years the restaurant has tried to bring good things to our surrounding area and most of that was under George’s direction. Events of the past like:
*Spaghetti House for a Day-> Before we were open on Sundays we used to do this once a year on Sunday. Only selling Spaghetti dinners and all proceeds went to local fire departments based on where customers said they were from.
*Breakfast with the Easter Bunny-> I won’t give away the secrets here, but only to say that this was a family event..
*Visit with Santa-> For a very long time probably the best Santa we’ve ever met, Daniel Schultheis, would sit at the restaurant, work the room, and interact with the kiddos.
*Hospital Christmas Caroling-> In the early years after Santa visited the restaurant we all used to go Christmas Caroling, Santa Dan in toe, to local hospitals. We went to Frick, Westmoreland, and Harmon House. Again think pre CoVID, it was no big deal for a bunch of singing people and Santa to work our way from room to room singing and handing out various trinkets. My dad always said that he wanted to bring a little bit of joy to those who couldn’t go home or didn’t have family who could visit with them. Eventually Santa passed the torch to the Grinch who’s been slanging Green Pancakes ever since.
*Fed the kids lunch at Armburst Christian Academy-> We did this for a few years as well. It was very important to Dad that this food be delivered hot, on time, and above all else tasty. He would always say he would never serve something that he wouldn’t eat himself and this was even true when it came to school lunches. Jennifer Shannon thank you for helping to do prep and deliver these to help Dad have it the way he wanted it.

So that brings me to why I’m posting this. In my dads final days nothing brings him greater joy then receiving cards from others. I’d like to ask that if any of the events above were also a special memory to you or if your reading this and you’d really just like to do a small good deed today that you could please sent a card in appreciation to dad. While he can’t read he can see up close and Amanda (my sister and most likely your waitress when you stop by) takes great joy in reading to him.

Please send any card to the restaurant and we’ll make sure he gets them.
Smillie’s Family Restaurant
ATTN: George Smillie
6557 PA-819
Mt Pleasant, PA 15666

Thank you and in closing if you haven’t called or hugged one of your elders lately do so. You’d be surprised how quickly they can leave us. My dad always looked at our regular customers as another family to him so if I forgot to name you above please don’t think its not cause we don’t remember.