American Coney Island owner expresses anger over Lafayette rat problem
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- Grace Keros, the owner of American Coney Island, spoke to the media on Monday saying she's frustrated with social media posts being associated with Lafayette Coney Island, which closed last week due to a rat problem. "I'm annoyed. I'm upset. We are not one in the same. Not in how we run the business, not in how we act, not in what we serve," she said. "To be compared and connected and to haec their nasty way of operating hinder my business is a problem," she added.
Hell yes! This lady is trying to protect her business which has been passed down by generations. Respect.
This owner keeps her restaurant very clean! Its a shame the next door restaurant does not have the same high standard.
She is NOT playing lol
This right here…..it’s called Detroit spirit! Love that she was given a microphone!! We got you girl!!!🇺🇸. This makes me want to drive an hour to go get some grub!!!
The only thing separting Lafayette from American Coney Island is a wall. I think it's reasonable for people to assume that if one establishment has a rodent problem, the other one does, as well. I get that she's upset and claims not to run her business the same way Lafayette does, but that won't stop people from making assumptions that both businesses are infested with rodents when they're literally right next to each other.
Well that's why she called for the press conference to set the record straight .....
So....walls don't work?
I don't see the big deal. Why can't people deal with a rodent problem? They have to eat, too. The place serves hot dogs and fries, not filet mignon. And the US is pretty much a third world country or even a colony at this point. And most Americans look like something out of a Rob Zombie horror movie.
You do know rats eat through walls ijs@@carochio8639
I can see why she is upset, I did a drive-by the other day and it wasn’t a soul inside American Coney Island. Thing is, the neighbors have rats. 🤷♂️
You Go Girl!!! You got my business. 💪🔥🤘
Grace and crew we know the truth that you and your families reputation stand for itself. Anyone who has stepped foot in both business can tell that you and your staff are proud of the products you serve and the cleanliness of your location. You shouldn't have to put up with this and I can assure you that I will still be sending your Coney kits out to family all over the states and four military bases. You and your staff always take of your customers and I am sure that your father and Grandfather are looking down proud of the business woman that you are.
Well obviously you're the better one if you don't have freaking rats
Agreed agreed
I love this owner ❤️ she follows through and speaks out for her life. She goes DEEP..thanks for sharing your cleaning procedures..I would go to her establishment if I lived closer. This lady is a winner 🏆 Detroit is lucky to have her.
Thanks, Suzy from Macomb.
She's rude
Was with you until you insulted Whitmer, Grace. Will not be bringing any guests to your establishment anymore.
Exactly.
The "might have rats" wouldn't have stopped all of us long time customers.
Telling who you are politically though? Now she gotta survive on the money from Macomb folks.
Whitmer eating rat shit lol let that sink in
Been going to american coney island 19 years working nights in detroit and even late at night its always clean and the food is great it has always been a battle between the two coney islands
We Hear You LOUD & CLEAR....
Every restaurant has some kind of a problem.All right.I worked in restaurants for 30 years.Lafayette is still the best coney island there is
I like both of them.
Both are part of the Detroit icon of the city.
Yet parking is a problem just to get a couple of coneys
Keep the fight going for the Detroit delights.
This is not the way you should be responding to the situation, Grace!!!! You look DUMB, not your customers. It is very unprofessional, and you drop a politicians name. No no no is what im saying to the Detroit Coney Icons
People with money always feel like they entitled to something what a joke
Her dig on Whitmer, hmmm. Now I'm sure there are things she's hiding.
She also didnt really stand up for her customers much. All i heard was about her inheritance and the board members.
wHitler is a moron.
Corrupt, lying pos
She feel like she entitled
Covid was 5 YEARS AGO...now businesses want BIG GOVERNMENT to step in?
Another option is to move...let businesses deal with businesses....
NYC is full of rats...and we aren't talking about the Trump Crime Family 😂😂😂
Show her some respect
I don’t blame her. I’d be pissed too!
If you are next door of course we're going to think you have rats too. Thr area has a lot of rats and mice.....
Ok Grace we get your point , but pump your brakes your’re doing to much there’s a reason you keep dealing with this issue! Solve the issue and relocate because at this moment you’re coming off as entitled and privileged . Direct that anger at the appropriate people and not us ijs
The moment she put the governor name in her rant, I'm thru with her. Both of them hot dogs are shit👎🏾
💯...probably got a bill for $7 eggs and she can't blame Trump...so blame Whitmer
WGAF...eggs are $7...where is Day 1 lower grocery prices?
Hey I know her... The hotdog rat lady.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lafayette is still better.
Imagine getting mad over mediocre coney dogs...
Bet u have rats you are only separated by a wall its not rocket science
After now seeing how this situation has developed i will no longer ever eat at american. What an embarrassing way to carry yourself as a business owner. Holding a press conference in your hot dog lobby? Is this real life?
Shes guilty! She let them rats loose!
She's the one who is trying to get Lafayette Coney Island shut down
Basically......it's more business for her.
@chumps7974 it only makes sense
No true if you listen to her speak she's an advocate for all restaurants even the new owners of her belated Grand uncle's business
@spartakist357 She not next door....she wants to corner the rat hotdog market
See sound like somebody Southern Grandmama" don't come in my house using my bathroom when you was over your friend house"😂😂😂😂😂
I feel for her imagining having your business' reputation dragged down by proximity and not necessarily merit. I will say in my firsthand experience as a local I've always found there is a quite apparent contrast between the two establishments and I've long favored the American Coney Island for that reason. I've eaten there several times and still do. I would fundamentally encourage people to, if interested and able, determine for yourself how suitable the establishment is for you and don't rely purely on secondhand accounts and gossip.
Detroit fierce!
People have reasonable assumptions knowing that rats travel and chew through wall, air ducts, etc.........
It's unfortunate.
But theres videos of rats in her Coney, too
Well truth hurts congratulations 👏👏👏 stand up for your prayers 🙏🏾
Completely objective opinion from this owner speaking negatively about her BIGGEST Competition.
I heard years ago that Lafayette Coney Island and American Coney Island are related by family. The families broke away and now two restaurants
She speaks the truth. IMHO
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Yeah! And we need to find out who visited Epstein Island!
@@ZeeOBrienI KNEW you are stupid. You just proved it.
@@ZeeOBrien The only guy on record kicking him out of his establishment for being a creep? Democrat average voter iq of 97 hard at work as usual I see.
@@MuDkipzCHancelLOr Fuck outta here, hillbilly. YOu don't live anywhere near Detroit, crack her.
Definitely this lady...she talking about Covid from 5 years ago...now she wants BIG GOVERNMENT to step in? 😂😂😂
I’d vote for her as governor
She is unqualified and doesn't have merit
The buildings are connected so you are kinda connected
No she's not!!! You didn't understand her words and her procedures.
@isaacisrael4593 did you miss the part where she said they shared a wall?
I believe her about her keeping the place coney. I would still be afraid to eat there.
Sounds like America is waking up. One though lady keep fighting lady you should run for politics.
Always liked this lady
City of Detroit rat issues, you guys share the same spot
I love American Coney Island! Lafayette has always grossed me out.
This women is a smart women.
Could she offer to buy that company that her belated grand-uncle started and keep it the same name and recipes as her grand-uncle operated with and have two separate teams co-running the two joints separately but equal
People thin if they have a rat problem there afraid of the rats getting into American coney.
If you don't eat it there don't leave it there.
She’s a true Detroiter
Then why TF y'all so close 😭
What a Karen. Also nobody goes to American.
Uh-oh somebody better call Bernstein and Bernstein. Somebody's going to get sued
She is pissed you hear me.!!😂😂😂
You look like a savy business owner.
Using this to slam the competition 😂
And snitches and rats and snitches
You benefit from the Lafayette Coney island location as many times people are given directions to Lafayette to get Coney's and get to the corner that people described and see your location and you get the business instead of them. So you get more positive gains out of your unintentional association than you get negative gains.
Wrong. Completely wrong. American has been down there for YEARS. No one confuses the two businesses. NO ONE.
It’s my understanding she owns both businesses. I’m so confused…..
No she owns her belated Grandpa's business not the one next door where her grand uncle of her grandpa's brother started that gentleman bequeathed it or sold it off to his employees they are the ones that are destroying his legacy
We LafayetteK OVER HERE
What a tough situation feel kinda sorry for them if Lafayette is so lame keepin up with reg maintenance & laziness regarding sanitizing..tough to get hyped up bout goin down there to get coneys.. such a bummer because it is legendary Detroit food
American coney aint even that good 😔
Dang i thought the two was family 😂 she threw the whole business under the bus
They are not family nor do the business share any space if you would listen it's a building maintenance issue and a simple cleaning issue.
@@danward7891 her belated Grand Uncle sold off Lafayette Coney Island to his staff they own it she could offer to buy it and run it as a separate entity for her family's heritage if she wanted to do something for her grand uncle's legacy
Clearly no love lost between American and Lafayette. Myself, I prefer Yesterdogs in Eastown, Grand Rapids, MI
I just looked at a comment about Laffaette cony island and customers said it needed a good cleaning. What does that tell you about Rats.
She is passionate😅😅😅
Hotdog Lives Matter!!!!!!!
Well said.
INDOOR DINING SHOULD BE BANNED, AS A 13 YEAR VET IN RESTURANTS, CUSTOMERS ARE SOME OF THE RUDEST AND CRUDEST PEOPLE OUT THERE!
Oh wow. How stupid are you?!
i would be pissed to.
I walked into Lafayette the other day and kept walking out the other door. Looked sketchy. National Coney all day long. Solid!!🌭🌭🌭
American is next door. Not national, you wiener.
National closed several locations during COVID.
Ali and'em at Lafayette Coney Island ought to be ASHAMED of themselves! 🤮
I'm guessing the other one that shut down the people didn't look nothing like her either?
Lafayette all day, every day
Speak your truth ❤
I don't know I never been to neither one of them Coney Islands however and people notice if they live in an apartment complex of some sort if the neighbors have mice and roaches that means the people next door to them is going to have it too ijs afford a health department to let that get that bad is the owner admitted that the building is old the next common an older buildings when you have a nasty neighbor your place will get affected too my mother used to be a manager at a housing complex when one neighbor was nasty The Neighbor Next Door to them always had issues too ijs. If I was her I would have just had the grade from the health department on the window and then it would have been no need for her to do a press conference
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blah blah blah lafayette has da superior coney hehehehehh
2025 & still not recording in stereo 🎉
They Not Like Us!
-American Coney Island Edition
Like the Whitmer dig!! LOL
Historic
Lafayette all the way.
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What a promo!
Mmhmm. Sure, Grace🤨🙄🤨
There is no way in sweet baby Jesus, no rats and mice have gotten in there as well. They travel through ducts and by pipes. Her business is 💯 clean, I can say. The problem, unless her building is insulated by a force field, they will come over. They now smell their usual lunch being cooked next door.
gold
I ate once at a Greektown restaurant and had a giant roach as big as my hand crawl up my leg.
I haven't eaten in Detroit since. 30 years ago.
You girl.
Don't care.
🤣🤣💯
I’m not eating at either one of them dirty dozen restaurants if I want a good Coney Island experience I’m going to any other Island but those two they’re old they’re disgusting it smells. They have the worst Coney Island ever go to Kirby’s Coney Island Leo’s Coney Island, George’s Coney Island.
American Coney is the superior coney restaurant.
Doesn't both Coney Islands owned by both family relatives?
It's quite unfortunate that their rivalry has persisted for well over 100 years. Many in my community in mid-Michigan are trying to stay updated on this unfortunate turn of events. It is really something that a pesky rodent infestation would rekindle the flames of passion between these ancient families. It reminds one of the old European style feuds. In big style American Empire, we're more accustomed to school shootings which seem to mimic the American Empire's bombing and drone attacking of the Middle East in recent years or Manhattan style sickcare ceo liquidations or even a fellow neighbor/driver trying to run you off the highway in an adderall fueled haze in their all new 2025 Cadillac Escalade gimme-gimme mobile!
It's unfortunate that we as a nation don't have a diplomatic figure who would be able to step in and resolve the issues between these two ancient families/restaurant proprietors. It would take someone like British ex-prime minister Herbert Henry Asquith who got the ball rolling on the unwinding of the old British Empire.
On the other hand, many friends and colleagues in my community are calling me night and day, advising me to step in to advise these two feuding entrepreneurs. With the hubbub of the modern day social media environment and my acumen for negotiating, my humble friends and colleagues up here in mid-Michigan tell me to go right ahead and make my political debut! I will soon be advising Mrs. Keros and company on how to resolve the rodent infestation and how to sell the business off to a private equity investor based in Beijing, China. It will take much time and commitment on my part and my would be advisers. But, I hope that in due time, I will be able to make a run for office of governor for the state of Michigan! And after? Well, of course, president of the United States! And then? Master of the Universe!!!