Ted's Hot Dogs — Restaurant in Town of Tonawanda

The food is terrific. Best hot dogs anywhere. BUT some of the workers could do better. When I'm in Buffalo, I'll go to Ted's twice each day, and I'll go to different locations. They all seem to have the same issues, which is that some workers who cook the hot dogs know how to do it right, and others don't. I had one yesterday where one end of a hot dog was overcooked, and the other end was barely cooked. Besides the obvious lack of attention and knowledge about cooking hot dogs and hamburgers, there is a constantly occurring issue wherein some workers seem to spend more than half of their time talking to other workers and not paying attention to what's going on in terms of keeping things moving and cooking correctly. I ordered a hamburger with no cheese yesterday, but the person cooking was so busy looking everywhere else and talking to others and giving directions to other workers from the grill, that she put cheese on my burger, and then had to cook another burger to fix the problem, meanwhile the hot dogs I ordered were getting burnt on two-thirds, while the other end of each looked like it was barely cooked. A simple fix would be to position the hot dogs evenly over the place where the fire is occurring. And to pay attention to what they're doing. The last suggestion for fixing their issues is to have the workers just do their jobs, and stop trying to talk to each other while there are customers in line and while there are hot dogs being cooked. And specifically figure out why the worker at the grill (cooking the hot dogs) is never giving full and proper attention to cooking the hot dogs and hamburgers. Why is that worker at the grill always acting like they're running the whole show and talking to other workers and doing everything except focusing on doing the cooking?? By the way, I used to work there, so I know that its not difficult to do...

Out of towners from Michigan first visit to Ted's

You can tell right away that your in the right "local" dog joint when you see 80 year old grandmas in line for a foot long

As soon as you walk in you're hit with a blast of smokey charcol goodness and think "this is going to be good"

The young staff running the grill and toppings were super friendly and helpful. Got the 5 pack of dogs, single Berger, onion rings and a chocolate shake.

While we were in line watching our meat get grilled we picked up on a couple of tips from some regulars. They have both fries and rings but you can order a "split" which is 50/50 fries and rings. The person in front of us ordered the rings extra done, pro move

They have all the toppings you could ever want but being from Michigan I wanted to see what their chili sauce was all about. Chili, onion, mustard was what we went with.

OK it's not a Detroit style coney sauce. More of a tomato based meat sauce. I won't knock them for that. They also had krout which I didn't know till after 😢

Get a shake, no question one of the best shakes we've had. Onion rings are very lightly coated and thin for the win.

We sat outside at one of the picnic table with a colorful yellow umbrella. 2 spots over was an elderly women with her 🐕. So cute.

We will be going back the next time...

This placed was hyped up by the banker down the street who recommended I check it out after I stopped in. I was debating between the impossible burger and the veggie dog but opted for the latter because, well, they're a hot dog place. The veggie dog was just underwhelming in every way - it was teeny tiny and just generally unimpressive, especially for the price. The highlight was the onion rings, which were pretty good but because the staff seems so unimaginably disorganized and the environment chaotic, they gave me the wrong size, and because everyone looked so confused and discombobulated at me correcting them that I needed a small, I just said screw it and took the large. Whatever system they are using to try to keep things flowing needs correcting. They are stressed out here for no reasons - everyone looks like they're about to pop an aneurysm all while they're serving one customer every several minutes. It's bizarre. Maybe I came at just a weird time - I really didn't know what was going on. But, the place was busy so they're clearly doing something right. If I were to come again, I'd go for the veggie burger rather than the dog - the latter they honestly should probably take off the menu (or get a new veggie...