# US döner operators
Several US restaurants sell döner under German, Berlin, or Turkish names. Their public menus disagree about bread, sauce, and bowls. That disagreement is the story. This page is a food directory of operator sites already cited in the guide — not an FDD table, not a ranking, and not a count of every kebab shop in America.
Mustafa's belongs here only as a **Berlin** shop with a first-party website that US readers keep searching for. It is not a US operator.
A street-level counter is one US format; food halls, malls, and California grill restaurants are others.
## Public directories compared
Figures are what the sites showed in **August 2026**. Re-check before traveling.
| Operator | Self-description | Public geography | Bread / format notes | Sauces (as named) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Döner Haus](https://doner.haus/) | German döner; pide sandwich | Five New York shops: Astoria, Bayside, East Village, Hell's Kitchen, Sunnyside | Crispy Turkish pide; wrap; boxes on fries, salad, or rice | Creamy garlic; spicy |
| [Kotti](https://www.kottidoner.com/) | Berliner döner in New York | Food halls and a Brooklyn restaurant, per its story page | Sandwiches, bowls, wraps | Red and white; feta |
| [GDK USA](https://gdkusa.com/) | Turkish food with a German twist | NY, NJ (American Dream), TX (Frisco) | Toasted sesame / waffle bread; wrap; boxes; rice bowl | Garlic, yogurt, spicy (three-signature set) |
| [DonerG](https://donerg.com/) | Turkish & Mediterranean grill; halal döner | Six California shops (OC and Long Beach) | Pita, fladenbrot (including fries in bread), bowls, wraps | House and red spicy sauces on named items |
No column is "the real one." [What is a German döner?](/what-is-german-doner/) is a family. DonerG is the control: Turkish positioning without a Berlin story.
## How the menus diverge
**Bread.** Quartered pide (Döner Haus), sesame waffle bread (GDK), unspecified pocket plus wrap (Kotti), pita and fladenbrot (DonerG). See [bread](/bread/) and [dürüm](/durum/).
**Vegetables.** Red cabbage recurs on German-positioned US boards. DonerG's fladenbrot also lists pickles, parsley-onion, and fries in the bread — a different salad logic. Kotti emphasizes a "rainbow" of vegetables and feta.
**Meat claims.** GDK states that beef doner contains poultry. Döner Haus's public site has described its meats as filler-free and gluten-free — an operator claim to verify at the shop. DonerG states halal-certified döner. These are not interchangeable certificates. [Meat and halal](/meat-and-halal/) and [allergens](/allergens/) keep them apart.
**Vegetarian.** GDK USA lists a jalapeño black-bean Veggie Kebab in sesame bread. DonerG lists falafel. Kotti's proteins should be read from the current menu rather than assumed. Berlin's Vöner, on the city guide, is seitan — wheat — and is not a US chain.
A board that reuses one spit across sandwich, wrap, and box is the US fast-casual pattern several of these operators share.
## Mustafa's: public, and in Berlin
[Mustafa's Gemüse Kebap](https://mustafas.de/) publishes Mehringdamm 33, Kreuzberg, as the original to-go stand, with hours and a note about the queue. US media treat it as a pilgrimage shop. It has no public US restaurant directory in the sources this guide uses. Putting it on a US operator table would be a category error; putting it on a US reader's shortlist of *names they will search* is honest.
Roasted vegetables and the word *Gemüse* still need a vegetarian check at any similarly named stand. See [Berlin neighborhoods](/berlin-neighborhoods/) and [vegetarian](/vegetarian/).
## What this roundup refuses to do
It does not add shop counts, sales, or "white space" in the US category. The commissioned chart on the [homepage](/) is one company's thesis; [German döner in the US](/german-doner-in-the-us/) already treats it as a point of view.
It does not convert menus into franchise investment copy. If you are reading filings, you are in a different library.
It does not merge gyro and shawarma businesses into the table. They are neighbors, described in [the comparison chapter](/doner-vs-gyro-vs-shawarma/).
Independent operators — a single Turkish shop in Chicago, a Berlin-style window in a food hall this page has not seen — are omitted because they were not in the public set this encyclopedia already cites. Omission is not a claim that they do not exist.
## How to use the table
1. Open the operator's **current** location page.
2. Open that location's menu, not a national photograph.
3. Note bread, sauce, and whether the item is a sandwich, wrap, or bowl.
4. Ask [halal](/meat-and-halal/) and [allergen](/allergens/) questions as themselves.
5. Judge [the spit and the vegetables](/how-to-judge-a-shop/) when you are there.
Kotti's [menu](https://www.kottidoner.com/menu) is the document for its sauces and formats; its story page is the document for its New York addresses. DonerG's [locations page](https://donerg.com/locations/) is the document for California. GDK USA and Döner Haus likewise. Dated, first-party, replaceable when the operator updates them.
Press logos elsewhere on this site record that outlets have covered Döner Haus. Coverage is an event, not a census, and it does not rank Kotti or DonerG.
City-level pages: [New York](/new-york-doner/), [Los Angeles](/los-angeles-doner/), [United Kingdom](/uk-german-doner/) for GDK's other public menu. The Explainer's locator is [where can I get German döner?](https://whatisdoner.com/where-can-i-get-german-doner/).
## Related chapters
- [German döner in the US](/german-doner-in-the-us/)
- [New York döner](/new-york-doner/)
- [Los Angeles döner](/los-angeles-doner/)
- [UK German döner](/uk-german-doner/)
- [Where can I get German döner?](https://whatisdoner.com/where-can-i-get-german-doner/)
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