Restaurant Equipment and Supply for Detroit, Dearborn, Livonia and Wayne County
Detroit eats like a factory town. American Coney Island has served coney dogs on West Lafayette since 1917, Buddy's baked the first Detroit-style square pizza in 1946 in steel pans borrowed from the auto plants, and Eastern Market has been the city's farmers market since 1891.
Just west of the city, Dearborn grew up around Ford's River Rouge Complex and is now a center of Arab American food, led by Al-Ameer, a James Beard America's Classic. Southwest Detroit's Mexicantown has its own taco history, Hamtramck lines up for pÄ…czki before dawn every Fat Tuesday, and suburbs from Livonia to Taylor keep burger stands, diners and family restaurants running.
Since 2015, The Restaurant Warehouse has shipped to thousands of commercial kitchens in every state. Metro Detroit orders ship from our Columbus warehouse, so Detroit-area restaurants get the same low prices and freight delivery right to Detroit, Dearborn, Livonia, Westland, Taylor, and Southfield. The most common orders here are reach-in refrigerators, freezers, griddles, fryers, charbroilers, and ranges and ovens.
Detroit Coney Islands and Square Pizza
A Detroit coney is a beef frank in a natural casing on a steamed bun, topped with all-meat, no-bean chili, diced white onion and yellow mustard. Greek immigrant Gust Keros opened American Coney Island at 114 W. Lafayette Blvd. in 1917, and the Keros family still runs it. His brother William came to help in 1924 and opened Lafayette Coney Island next door, which has been employee-owned since 1991. Detroit-style pizza started in 1946, when Gus Guerra baked a square pie at Buddy's Rendezvous at Six Mile and Conant on the east side, using forged-steel pans borrowed from local automotive plants. Buddy's had 19 Michigan locations in January 2026, almost all of them in metro Detroit. The city's pantry runs deep too: Vernors ginger ale dates to 1866, Sanders to 1875, Faygo to 1907, Better Made chips to 1930 and Kar's Nuts to 1933.
Coney counters run all day on flat-top griddles, sandwich prep tables for onions and toppings, and reach-in refrigerators for case after case of franks. Square-pizza kitchens need deck and convection ovens, pizza prep tables for dough and cheese, and work tables for pressing pans.
Dearborn's Arab American Food Corridor
Henry Ford began building the River Rouge Complex in Dearborn in 1917, and the city grew around it. In Census Bureau data released in 2023, about 55% of Dearborn's roughly 110,000 residents reported Middle Eastern or North African ancestry. Al-Ameer opened in Dearborn in 1989, founded by Khalil Ammar and Zaki Hashem as a three-booth eatery on West Warren Avenue serving Arab American autoworkers from the nearby Ford plant. In 2016 the James Beard Foundation named it an America's Classic, and its menu runs from shawarma and fattoush to raw kibbeh, foul mudamas and sujuk. Yemeni coffee is the newer wave: Ibrahim Alhasbani founded Qahwah House in Dearborn in 2017, which CBS Detroit calls the first Yemeni coffee shop in the U.S., and the station says the city now has dozens of coffee shops. The Arab American National Museum, a Smithsonian Affiliate, opened on Michigan Avenue in 2005.
Shawarma and grill kitchens lean on vertical broilers, charbroilers and griddles, with reach-in refrigerators and freezers for marinated meats. Bakeries and coffeehouses add countertop display cases for pastries, undercounter refrigerators behind the bar and ice machines for cold drinks.
Eastern Market, Hamtramck PÄ…czki and Mexicantown Tacos
The city moved its farmers market to the Eastern Market site in 1891. The district covers 43 acres between Gratiot and Mack, about a mile northeast of downtown, with more than 150 businesses, and it is billed as the largest historic public market district in the United States. The Saturday market runs year-round and draws 30,000 to 40,000 people on a summer Saturday. Every May, Flower Day brings more than 150 flower vendors, a tradition of more than 60 years. Next door to Detroit, Hamtramck, a city since 1922 and known for its Polish roots, celebrates PÄ…czki Day every Fat Tuesday, when New Palace Bakery opens at 3 a.m. and lines start forming around midnight. In Southwest Detroit, Mexican families began settling along Vernor in the 1920s, in an area first called La Bagley. Bagley and Vernor are still the main streets, and the neighborhood was branded Mexicantown in the late 1980s.
Market vendors and bakeries need work tables, freezers for dough and fillings, fryers for pÄ…czki and countertop display cases at the counter. Taquerias and taco trucks run on food truck equipment, griddles, charbroilers and undercounter refrigeration sized for a tight build.
Restaurant Supply Store in Detroit
We ship straight to your Detroit restaurant. Most metro Detroit orders arrive in 1 to 3 business days from our Columbus warehouse, with free freight and free lift gate service. Will-call pickup in Columbus is available for verified restaurant businesses, but most kitchens skip the trip and let us ship it. Metro Detroit calls are usually a fast replacement, like a reach-in or fryer that quit before a Friday rush, or a full package for a new coney counter, shawarma grill, bakery or taco truck. Tell us what you are cooking and how much room you have, and we will help you size the line.
Why Detroit Restaurants Buy From The Restaurant Warehouse
Every piece of new Atosa equipment we sell is run-tested for 24 hours at the factory before it ships. It carries Intertek's ETL Sanitation and cETLus listings, which certify it to the NSF/ANSI food equipment standards and US and Canadian safety standards that inspectors from the Detroit Health Department, Wayne County Environmental Health and the Oakland County Health Division look for. Refrigeration comes with a 3-year parts and labor warranty and a 5-year compressor warranty, gas cooking equipment comes with a 1-year parts and labor warranty, and extended warranties are available.
- Free freight on qualifying orders, no lift gate fees
- Built for scrappy startups, food trucks and independent kitchens
- Founder Sean Kearney answers calls, texts and email at (206) 419-5801 or therestaurantwarehouse@gmail.com
Serving Detroit, Dearborn, Livonia and Wayne County
Detroit is our hub for Wayne County and Southfield in Oakland County. Restaurants across the area get the same equipment, free lift gate freight and warranty, and they talk to the same team.
Detroit and Hamtramck
The Detroit Health Department issues green, red and white Dining with Confidence placards on the city's restaurants. Coney counters, pizzerias, bars and market kitchens across Detroit and in neighboring Hamtramck, a separate city that Detroit surrounds on most sides, order griddles, reach-in refrigerators, ranges and ovens and bar refrigeration.
Dearborn and Dearborn Heights
Dearborn's grills, bakeries and Yemeni coffeehouses, and the restaurants of neighboring Dearborn Heights, order charbroilers, freezers, countertop display cases and ice machines.
Livonia, Westland and Southfield
Bates Hamburgers has grilled sliders on Five Mile Road in Livonia since 1959. Westland became a city in 1966, and Brome Modern Eatery opened its third location there on Ford Road in 2025, after two in Dearborn. Southfield, across the line in Oakland County, had 76,618 residents in 2020. Burger stands, cafes and family restaurants in these cities order griddles, fryers, sandwich prep tables and undercounter refrigerators.
Taylor and Lincoln Park
Wayne County calls Taylor, a city since 1968, the capital of the Downriver Detroit area, and Lincoln Park is its Downriver neighbor. Diners, taverns and pizzerias in both cities order fryers, pizza prep tables, reach-in refrigerators and draft beer coolers.
Detroit Restaurant Equipment FAQ
Do you ship restaurant equipment to Detroit?
Yes. The Restaurant Warehouse ships commercial restaurant equipment to Detroit and the rest of metro Detroit by freight, with lift gate delivery to your door.
Do you deliver to Dearborn, Livonia, Westland, Taylor and Southfield?
Yes. We deliver across metro Detroit, including Detroit, Hamtramck, Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Livonia, Westland, Taylor, Lincoln Park and Southfield.
How fast is delivery to Detroit?
Most metro Detroit orders arrive in 1 to 3 business days from our Columbus warehouse, depending on item availability and carrier routing. Contact us if you need equipment urgently.
Do you offer free freight?
Yes. Free freight is available on select models and qualifying orders. Contact us to confirm freight options for a specific item.
Do you charge lift gate fees?
No. We do not charge lift gate fees.
What types of restaurant equipment do you sell?
We sell commercial refrigerators, freezers, prep tables, griddles, charbroilers, deep fryers, ovens, ice machines, bar refrigeration, and food truck equipment, plus many other categories for professional kitchens.
Can I get help choosing the right equipment?
Yes. If you can't find what you need, call or email us and we'll help you source the right product for your kitchen.
Can I pick up my order?
Yes. Verified restaurant businesses can arrange will-call pickup at our Columbus warehouse. But why lose a day renting a truck, strapping it down and unloading it yourself? With free freight and free lift gate service, most metro Detroit orders arrive at your door or curb in 1 to 3 business days. Call (206) 419-5801 to set up either option.
North on I-75, our Troy page covers Oakland and Macomb counties, and west on I-94 our Ann Arbor page covers Washtenaw County.
Restaurant Equipment Across Michigan
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