Gyros Wrap (Tortilla) is a modern adaptation: the standard gyros fill rolled in a flour tortilla instead of a griddled Greek pita. The angle worth being honest about is that the bread is the only thing that changes, and it changes the sandwich more than it looks like it should. A flour tortilla is thinner, more uniform, and more foldable than a Greek pita, with no blistered chew and no oiled give; it behaves like a neutral envelope rather than a flavor component, which is a real trade and worth naming rather than glossing over.
The build is the standard Greek sequence with the wrap substituted at the last step. Marinated meat, usually pork or chicken, is roasted on the vertical spit and shaved off in thin crisped slices exactly as in the original. Tomato, raw onion, tzatziki, and fries are the same fillings in the same order. The difference is the tortilla and how it has to be handled: it is usually warmed briefly on a griddle or flat top so it goes pliable, because a cold tortilla straight from the pack tears at the fold and a stale one cracks. The mechanical advantage is that a tortilla rolls tighter and seals more cleanly than a pita, so a well-made gyros wrap holds its shape and travels well, which is much of why the format exists. The failure modes are specific to the bread swap: a cold or dry tortilla that splits, a soggy one when warm tzatziki and hot fries sit against thin flour too long before it is eaten, and an overfilled roll that bursts because the thin wrap has less structural tolerance than a doughy pita. The meat-side failures are the universal ones, chiefly lukewarm slices off the spit and pale underrendered meat.
It shifts mostly by how close the kitchen keeps it to the original. Some treat the tortilla purely as a sturdier carrier and change nothing else; others lean into the format with tighter rolling for takeaway and travel. The traditional pita-built gyros it descends from is its own preparation and deserves its own article rather than being crowded in here. The constant is the gyros logic with one asterisk: shave the meat thin, build it hot, keep the sauce from soaking through, and accept that the tortilla carries the sandwich rather than contributing to it.