What Does the American Dream Taste Like?

Meet four young men who knew. Their inspiring story is delicious...and satisfying. In 1920, a young Bulgarian immigrant to America, Mike Petroff, 21, founded a chili restaurant in Gary, Indiana, which his nephew, Pete Kamanaroff and Pete's son Paul, would carry on for a century. On August 8, 2020, Jimmy Hendricks, the new young, Black owner of Koney King, as it is known locally, threw a huge anniversary party for Indiana Hoosiers to celebrate 100 years of its famous, unforgettable...
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Meet four young men who knew. Their inspiring story is delicious...and satisfying. In 1920, a young Bulgarian immigrant to America, Mike Petroff, 21, founded a chili restaurant in Gary, Indiana, which his nephew, Pete Kamanaroff and Pete's son Paul, would carry on for a century. On August 8, 2020, Jimmy Hendricks, the new young, Black owner of Koney King, as it is known locally, threw a huge anniversary party for Indiana Hoosiers to celebrate 100 years of its famous, unforgettable chili.Most important, Hendricks has vowed to carry on the restaurant's century-old legacy of employing workers and serving patrons whatever the color of their skin, as it did through all the turbulent years of race riots, political unrest, and the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. This booklet, just 15 pages long, proves the American Dream is not impossible. In fact, it's more reachable than ever.