Louie's Texas Red Hots

Louie's Texas Red Hots is a six restaurant chain located around Buffalo, NY. The original location was founded in 1967 by Louie Galanes. The restaurant serves a wide variety of food, and is open 24 hours. The restaurant's tagline is "We don't serve fast food... we serve GOOD FOOD, FAST!" When you think of Louie’s Texas Red Hots, there is not one bad thing that can be said about the place. They have served great food to the community all around Buffalo, New York for decades. Not only is Louie’s a friendly family atmosphere, it is also an enjoyable place for friends to hang out with one another and enjoy a great meal. There are six Louie’s locations: two of them being in different parts of Buffalo, New York, then the rest being in West Seneca, New York, Depew, New York, Orchard Park, New York, and they also have mobile concessions for special events. Whether you order, breakfast sandwiches, burgers, hot dogs, sodas, or milkshakes, everything is delivered to you in a fashionable amount of time. Louie’s offers four value meals, and sometimes prices are subject to change upon the location. Louie's is especially known for their famous Red Hot Sauce, there is no other sauce that can compare to Louie’s Red Hot Sauce, whether it is on a sahlen’s hot dog that they cook or a burger, the sauce is fantastic. The Red Hot Sauce has become bigger in places other than just Louie’s, now if you are in the super market you can buy Louie’s Red Hot Sauce. If you are going to have a barbecue at your house, a friends house, or even a family members house, Louie’s Red Hot Sauce is one of the main ingredients people always have at these barbecues. At the Location on Transit Road, in Depew, New York, Louie’s always has a lot of customers, whether it is early in the morning, in the afternoon, or late at night. At night, Louie’s has an undercover police officer work at the location in Depew, because of a fight from a few years prior. It is always a safe idea to have a security guard like this, just because it helps in putting people at ease and letting them feel at home so they can enjoy a good world class Louie’s meal. Louie’s has had their long time customers coming back for more, all the time, and they always have new customers who come in and taste the food, and then keep coming back for more! Louie’s also offers a "To Go Special, All Day, Everyday, when you buy five Texas Hot Dogs, you get the sixth free." Many people are all in favor of supporting Louie’s because the money that they spend there is not being sent to an out of state corporation. As Louie Galanes said, “Please support your locally owned businesses. We live here, and pay our taxes here. Your money is not sent to a corporation out of state. Thank you for your patronage!” You can also find maps and menu specials on the Louie’s Texas Red Hots website, http://louiestexasredhots.com/. Stay faithful, and keep supporting your local restaurants. Louie’s has been faithful to all of their customers for many years, and I think it would show our support for local owners by staying with them and eating their food. If you aren’t a believer of how good Louie’s food is, visit a location nearest you.

Louie's menu features many simple dishes. Popular items include the namesake Texas Red Hots, a traditional Buffalo indulgence, and according to the menu, "one of Buffalo's oldest fast foods." To make this item, a standard Sahlen's brand hot dog is slathered with a thick, chili-like beef sauce called "Red Hot sauce," but more commonly referred to as "slime." In addition to this sauce, the hot dog is topped with mustard and onions. A hot dog in this configuration is usually ordered using the terms "up," "with everything" (which, ironically, does not include every available topping offered), or simply "Red Hot." Other items include sandwiches, burgers, chili, large omelettes which can also be ordered with the Red Hot sauce, and a variety of breakfast items. Other dishes, such as the beef and chicken souvlaki and gyros, represent the Greek heritage of chain founder Galanes. (1, PDF)

Relations with community

Owner Galanes has had the following personal appeal placed on signs at all his locations, on his website, and in his menus: "Please support your locally owned businesses. We live here, and pay our taxes here. Your money is not sent to a corporation out of state. Thank you for your patronage!"

At least one Louie's restaurant, the Southwestern Blvd. location in Orchard Park, NY, features a "Salute to Military Members" board where pictures of both veterans and active military members who are patrons of Louie's can post their pictures.

Louie's offers free coffee to police officers, largely ensuring that late at night there is usually at least one officer taking a break in the restaurant.

Decor

Louie's restaurants feature a great deal of local sports memorabilia. Various posters and paintings of the local Buffalo Sabres and Buffalo Bills hang above the booths. The aforementioned Orchard Park location features a large Sabres logo with a bright red glowing eye.

Trivia

A Louie's has been the location of at least one [...], the August 1991 slaying of seventeen-year-old Torriano Jackson. 2