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Revered New York hot dog joint that closed after 100 YEARS announces comeback
A century old hot dog joint that shut down during the pandemic has announced it will be reopening its doors - to the delight of its many, many fans.
The Patros family established M & M Red Hots in 1919 in downtown Elmira, which is about 230 miles northwest of New York City.
The understated restaurant is most known for cooking up hot dogs with its famous meat sauce drizzled on top, but it serves breakfast as well.
It's also revered for its persistently reasonable prices, with a regular hot dog only setting you back $3.40 before tax in 2020, according to its vintage Coca-Cola menu board.
The restaurant owners wrote in a surprise Facebook post on Wednesday that they've been getting the place ready for opening for a few months.
It's not officially open yet, but they said they would make another post when there's grand reopening scheduled.
Pictured: M & M Red Hots since March 2020, when social distancing requirements went into effect at the state level
An order of two hot dogs from M & M's with meat sauce and ketchup
'Thank you for your continued love and support over the many years when Katie's father, Andy, was head hotdogger, and even before him when her grandmother Wilda DeHaas was,' the post read.
'Many years of hotdoggin' downtown has grown a wonderful group of customers supporting us over generations to come, customers who are like family to us!'
'We've missed you all as much as you've missed us, and we cannot wait to see your smiling faces! So hold tight Elmira, your cravings will soon be satisfied!'
The owners signed the post: 'Sincerely, Your next generation hot dog slingers.'
To say this small-town frankfurter eatery got a lot of attention with this announcement would be an understatement.
As of Friday, the Facebook post has gotten over 1,500 likes, which represents a whopping 6 percent of Elmira's 25,000 residents.
The comments were full of people - Elmira locals and others who have long since moved away - raving about M & M hot dogs and saying they couldn't wait to come back.
Pat Jackson, who went to high school in Elmira, said M & M remains his family's favorite hot dog place.
He even made it a tradition to bring 25 hot dogs and the restaurant's famous meat sauce back to where he lives in Illinois.
A group of customers poses for a photo at one of M & M's three green counters back in 2015
Pictured: The restaurant in the throes of getting set up for business this summer
'We have moved away quite awhile ago but every year that we would come back to Elmira we made sure we’d stop in with family,' he wrote. 'We’ve been going since early 1960’s.'
Others provided vivid memories of having been to M & M as children.
John Baker, who lived and worked in Elmira for decades, said he might have to return to Elmira from rural Thailand where he's retired to just to get two hot dogs with 'everything.'
'I enjoyed my first M & M weinie [sic] in 1952 at age 6. My Dad took me to lunch after my Dentist appointment,' he wrote.
Another person said the news of the reopening 'literally made me cry.'
If the more than 500 comments on M & M's post are any indication, Elmira might soon have quite the rush of visitors this summer.