The Nathans International July Fourth Hot Dog Eating contest is an annual competitive eating completion that is held in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York. The completion is hosted by the restaurant known as Nathan’s Famous Corporation and has been held at the same venue, virtually every year, on the fourth of July since back in nineteen sixteen when four men first held an impromptu completion to see who was the most patriotic.
Today the event involves regional qualification, has thirty thousand spectators watching live, is broadcast on the sports channel ESPN and offers its champion a ten thousand dollar prize. If you would like to learn more about this famous international eating competition and the restaurant that supports it then you might like to take a look at the web site www.nathansfamous.com. This site offers more news and history about the eating event as well as information about the restaurants current menu and location. 
