James Coney Island
It has its headquarters, the James Coney Island Support Center, located in Suite 700 in the 11111 Katy Freeway building in Houston.[3][4] The original James Coney Island restaurant was one of the first major hot dog vendors in Houston.The business was family-owned and operated from its inception until 1990, when the failure of the family's auto dealerships led to the restaurants being acquired out of bankruptcy court by Ghulam Bombaywala, Irvin Kaplan, Donald Bonham, Edwin Freedman, and Max Levit and Milton Levit.The chain's number two location opened in the Town & Country Mall area in 1968, and permanently closed its doors in 2020.[citation needed] In March 2022 the location in Meadows Place closed after operating there for over 25 years.