A&W was still a big deal in Michigan when I lived there in the late 80’s.
As were lots of local Greek diner joints that specialized in chili dogs. The locals called these joints “Coney Islands” for some inexplicable reason as we were more than 700 miles from Coney Island.
Yah, but we didn’t have those greek joints back in the sticks near mikey moron’s hometown. We didn’t even have KFC, but we did have “Maryland Fried Chicken”. It was tasty.
Going to Flint for dinner out was a treat back then. Huzzah.