 They opened a restaurant called Belgrade Gardens in 1933 in which they sold a distinctive style of fried chicken, along with a vinegar-based cole slaw, a rice and tomato sauce side dish seasoned with hot peppers (usually referred to as "hot sauce" or "hot rice", which can also be eaten as a dipping sauce or a side dish), and freshly cut french fries.Barberton lore holds that these were exact replicas of what the Topalskys had known back in Serbia as , , , and .Soon other restaurants emerged which copied the distinctive style.