Kostas leaves Cafe neo acropolis in his son Jim's hands and heads home to Greece after 23 years in Australia for a well deserved holiday.Kostas asks Jim's friend Rick to look after the finances.When Kostas leaves Jim changes the quiet cafe to a happening place for young people.On opening day, Manolis the cook gets drunk and passes out, so Jim has to find a replacement cook fast. In walks Gavin 'skippy ' Thorpe fresh from the North Queensland cane fields where he was a cook for the cane cutters. Jim hires him When Manolis awakes,he finds a new cook in his kitchen and chases him around the cafe. Jim also hires Liz, as a waitress.

Memo is still convinced that women don't make good waiters, nor can he get out of his habit of being rude to the customers; Manolis, the old chef, promises to kill Skip, the new chef; Jim's spending money like an Onassis; and Ricky just can't understand how the profits seem to disappear - and things promise to get a lot better when Jims mum calls from Greece. She's arranged for Jim's proxy to come to Australia.

Ricky's finding out what it's like to be financial manager of the Acropolis Now. Jim's PR is sending them broke. It seems everyone is getting free meals, free coffees, free anything at all.

It's the day of the prestigious Waiters' Race, the one day of the year Memo has been looking forward to. In the past he's come third, second, BUT never first, always losing out to Alexander the Great, the feared Macedonian waiter. But this year's going to be different. This year Memo is going to win.

Ricky is quiet and shy and seemingly disinterested where women are concerned. Everyone notices that. Liz thinks it's a pleasant change in a man, whereas Jim's constantly trying to organise dates. It comes as a surprise then, when the staff at the Acropolis Now discover that Ricky has a past.

Once upon a time in the hey-day of Cafeneo Acropolis there were two singing waiters. One of them wanted to be the next King, Elvis Hatzidmitropoulos. But on a fateful night he was struck down with fassolatha (baked bean) poisoning-and it was no accident-and the other half of the duo performed solo, only to be discovered, taken to Greece, and made famous. Now he's back in town and booked to perform at the Acropolis Now.

Because of a spate of break-ins in the area, the security conscious Ricky fits out the Acropolis Now with a complete set of deadlocks. The taverna is safer than the mint. No one can break in, nor, as it turns out, can they break out as Jim and Liz are quick to discover.

Easter is coming up and the time of fasting is upon them.That means no meat, cheese, alcohol,sex. Memo is finding it difficult to abstain from all these things. Manolis is betting on the horses and losing. Jim has been saving Manolis' money and not putting his bets on. Effie wants Rick and Jim to take Sophie and herself to church. Jim gets a tip from a bookie but Liz won't let him place the bet.The horse comes second,so Jim tells Manolis and gives him his money. After church Memo is so hungry he rushes to the cafe for the feast with his candle, but the flame goes out so he has to go back to the church to re-light it. Then everyone arrives and Effie has a plan to get a kiss from Rick, they tap eggs and Effie wins, but then drops it on Ricks foot.

When Margo, a young pregnant woman turns up at the Acropolis Now, there are a tense few moments for Jim-is he the father of the child? He isn't, of course. But the big surprise is that the man Margo is looking for is none other than Gavin Farrell-SKIP.

Jim learns he's supposed to be the best man for his cousin Bill's wedding, and being the best man means organising the traditional Buck's turn with all the traditional Buck's turn trimmings. Only problem is, Jim's never been to one, let alone organised one. And to make matters worse, liz decides that what's good enough for the goose is good enough for the gander - or in his case hen - and in competition with Jim, organises a hen night.

Epsilon is a famed Greek poet and when he walks into the café one day, Liz falls hopelessly in love with him. Things go smoothly until Jim reveals that he knows Epsilon as an old school buddy-Themmy Parkyakarkus. But even this information cannot dissuade Liz from believing Epsilon is the perfect man. Both Ricky and Jim look on in (jealous) horror as Liz laps up every word of the celebrated wordsmith. Memo shows his book to Epsilon in hopes of being published, an autobiography entitled All By Myself. Jim tries his hand as an artist.