Almost all of the Newyorkers and most of the visitors as well, especially if they are desi are very well aware of the famous “the halal guyz” cart on 6th ave and 53rd st.
If you dont know by the name and you remember one big line next to a hotdog cart saying halal with guyz in yellow serving with fast hands, thats exactly the one. They are certainly worldwide famous for their gyro.
Recently, there are two big news in media about them.
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They are upgrading themselves from a food cart to a regular restaurant.
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They are sueing other cart with similar logo and style.The suit seeks a court order forcing the rival to change its name and stop using the logo — and to pay unspecified money damages.
he Halal Guys food cart operation is opening its first brick-and-mortar restaurant, in the East Village, with a lot more planned
Founders Mohamed Abouelenein and Abdelbaset Elsayed plan a place on the Upper West Side and, with help from a franchiser, an international chain
BY CAROL KURUVILLA
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Friday, June 27, 2014, 2:00 AM
DAVID HANDSCHUH/NEW YORK DAILY NEWSAbdelbaset Elsayed, left, and Mohamed Abouelenein outside their restaurant, due to open Saturday, at E. 14th St. and Second Ave.
New York, New York, it’s a halal of a town.
So the men behind the wildly popular Halal Guys food carts are opening their first restaurant Saturday, the initial step in the planned worldwide expansion of an operation that started with a lone hot-dog cart in 1990.
The eatery, a 20-seat joint on 14th St. in the East Village, will serve a prettified version of the Middle Eastern street food that draws lines down the block in Midtown.
It’s only the beginning for founders Mohamed Abouelenein, 59, and Abdelbaset Elsayed, 51, who both live in Astoria.
“For me, the (East Village restaurant) is not my aim,” says Abouelenein. “This is just the first step. I am imagining something bigger than this.”
It’s the ultimate New York story: Abouelenein was a veterinarian, and Elsayed was a business student when they emigrated from Egypt “looking for a dream,” Abouelenein says.
For the first few years, the “dream” consisted of jobs as kitchen helpers and cab drivers. Then they began running a cart at Sixth Ave. and 53rd St. — now known as “the original location.”
