Growth of The Coney Island Restaurant
Since the owners of the first Coney Island restaurants did not trademark the name or business plan, many other restaurants began using the same name and formula. Most Coneys in the Detroit area are still owned by Greek, Macedonian, or Albanian immigrants and their descendants.
Coney Islands have developed a distinctive dining style is repeated in hundreds of different restaurants throughout the metropolitan Detroit area and elsewhere in Michigan and other nearby states. There are some regional variations though, such as the chili sauce, which is more liquid in Detroit area Coney Island restaurants compared to the dryer sauce served in Coney Island restaurants served in the nearby Flint, Michigan area.
Many Greek diners in Buffalo, New York and throughout upstate New York and New Jersey are similar in format to Detroit-style Coney Islands, even serving their own style of dogs, called a Texas Hot or Texas Wiener. Unlike the Coney Island restaurants in Detroit, though, the Texas Hot is often not the dominant menu item in these establishments.
Sioux City, Iowa also has a handful of Coney Island eateries, as does the Houston, Texas area.
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