NO.297
FELTMAN’S OF CONEY ISLAND • CEO: JOE QUINN
CATEGORY: FOOD & BEVERAGES
THREE-YEAR REVENUE GROWTH: 1,909%
Mike, Jimmy, and Joe Quinn spent their childhood summers on the boardwalk of Coney Island in Brooklyn, where their grandfather, then in his 80s, would start to eat a hot dog and then spit it out and complain, “This isn’t how Feltman used to make it.” Charles Feltman, a German immigrant who started with a pie cart on Coney Island, had invented the hot dog back —AS TOLD TO TOM FOSTER
