13-year-old entrepreneur told no hot dog sales

Holland Sentinel ^ | Jul 17, 2012 | ANNETTE MANWELL

[bigbob]

If the kid was from Chicago he’d have someone bumped off and be selling hotdogs at the wake.

[sheana]

I buy a brand from Smart and Final called Hoffy Premium Beef Franks. They are huge and soooo tasty when cooked on the grill and won’t fit in a regular bun. You have to buy the large hot dog buns for them. We call them Gun Range Dogs because the first time we had them was at an outdoor shooting range here.

[Dr. Sivana]

Nuthin' compares to a true Chicago Dog with dayglo-green relish

Having lived in Chicago, and still being within the Chicago Hot Dog zone (Rockford, IL), I must strenuously disagree.

1. Vienna Beef Hot Dogs (preferred brand) are marginal.
2. The hot dogs are typically steamed, which does not bring out the flavor as well as grilling.
3. As your picture shows, the most popular Chicago style hot dog does everything you can to make you forget that there is any meat in the darn thing.
In your sample, there are diced onions, relish, jalapeno peppers, sliced tomatoes, vertically sliced pickles, mustard, and I am sure celery salt all on top of a pathetic little 2 1/2 oz frank. I like the meat. The salad I can have on the side. Hot dogs (unless they be topped with bacon or are on an extra-toasty bun) shouldn't crunch.
4. The poppy seed buns are actually pretty good. But again, those buns (S. Rosen a favorite brand) are thicker and denser, and tend to hide the poor pathetic frank.

[I still care]

I was watching this kid on Fox. The really irritating thing was, the kid WENT DOWN to city hall and asked about it, and was ENCOURAGED to start this business.

After he left the commissioners were rebuked by the zoning officials, but they didn’t know how to get in touch with the kid, so they just let him go through all of the prelims and invest his money. Once he opened, they SHUT HIM DOWN IN TEN MINUTES.

They could find him fast enough once he opened!

The reason they gave for shutting him down is cart operations are too much competition for restaurants. Excuse me, if carts do so much better, that must mean folks WANT carts, instead of being shuttled to a restaurant!

The kid has gotten a rotten lesson in the evils of government bureaucracy at too young an age.

[smokingfrog]

They should refund the money for his permit so he can buy another one to set up someplace else.

[Jack Hammer]

Sorry, Comrade, but business for profit is not permitted by the Supreme Soviet.

Big Brother Hussein has already informed you that all business success is managed by The State.

Obey the nice commissar, and resolve to collect welfare and food stamps.

[Jeff Chandler]

If you read the article, he talked to officials before he opened the business and received the appropriate permit.

The kid went to the city to get a food vending permit. The city referred him to the county, which issued the permit.

Zoning is a separate issue. The kid failed to determine if the location was zoned for that kind of business, which it was not.

It's really not that complicated and nobody is being mean to him. he just didn't follow the simple steps one takes when starting a business.

If he really wants to run a business he should find another location and go for it.

[paratrooper82]

All he had to do was claim he was an illegal alien and all would have been forgiven. In fact, the government would have stepped up and bought him the hot dog stand using tax payers money, placed him on welfare and then he could pocket the proceeds from the business directly into his pocket as profit!

Obama happy meal, order anything you want and the white man behind you will pay for it!

[T-Bird45]

The original Coney Island location near the federal building in Tulsa was recently demolished but they still have several other locations around town.

[Jeff Chandler]

From the article:

The family is from Holland but is living with friends in Grand Haven for now, Johnson said. They still spend a lot of time in Holland, Duszynski said, especially at the Herrick District Library.

From the Herrick District Library:

Recommended Reading

It pays to do your homework.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Just put the whole family on Obama’s welfare and they will live better than they did while working.

Re Hotdogs
Hebrew National
Nathan’s
Boars Head has a new, mildly flavored all beef dog that is good grilled.
7-11 has a new all beef hot dog that is somewhere inbetween Hebrew National/Nathan’s and Oscar Meyer/Boars Head. Very light but delicious. Thinking of moving it into Second Place.

All must be grilled. Believe me, I know hot dogs. Being Jewish, I was weaned on Hebrew National hot dogs with HN beef bologna and mustard. (Forget the Kraut: That’s for Old Country amateurs). Learned about Kosher meats on Corned Beef Row (Lombard Street) in Baltimore. Talk about old country taste and quality. Couldn’t beat the hot dog rolls either. Solid and tasty. Didn’t break apart when you put the dog in.

Don’t even ask about the old, wooden pickle barrels, Codies (fish cakes), real Corned Beef and Brisket, Spice Beef, or real Roast Beef.

Bagels and cream cheese to die for. Real Lox, Smoked Whitefish, etc.

I’m so hungry I’m going to cook a dog now. (My son’s K9 just heard me say that out loud and she ran out of the house). She’ll be back when I put out the cat food (she loves it).

[Eagles6]

Can someone provide a link to Rodney Dangerfield’s first economics class?

[onedoug]

What is the secret to making a good hot dog?

Turkey.

[dupree]

Not only do things taste better when someone else makes them for you, the atmosphere plays a part too. I once bought a piece of cheesecake at Red Robin. I thought it was so wonderful that a couple months later I bought a whole cheesecake for a friend’s birthday party. For some unexplained reason, not only did it not taste as wonderful, it actually wasn’t that good. It tasted like it had cheap ingredients and preservatives, not homemade from scratch. My conclusion: At the restaurant you aren’t really paying attention to the food—it’s more about the conversation with friends and relaxing and enjoying the meal because you’re not standing on your feet cooking. You pay more attention when you’re at home with fewer distractions.

[Hotmetal]

Belive it or not the best hotdog I've had was every weekend coming out of the Corona Club in Acuna,MX (this is the bar that Cheech worked at in the movie Desperado) fresh roma tomatoes, onion, salt and pepper and green chili sauce $1 each.

[katnip]

Best hot dog ever is a Sabrett dirty water dog from a street vendor with the red onion sauce and spicy mustard.

One of the few things I miss about NYC.

[ebshumidors]

I like Sabretts with red onions from Tommy’s in Carteret. Exit 12. He has good chili and Italian dogs, too.

[Texas Fossil]

I'm not Jewish. but like corned beef and bagels.

Have never cured corned beef for myself, have been tempted. But, I have had great success cooking them bag wrapped in foil. Low and slow. Comes out so tender you can cut it with a fork. My whole family loves it with cabbage. My favorite is on a Rueben sandwich.

As for bagels, I have not made them in a while, but have had really good success with them. (been the family baker for 30 years) Most people do not know they are rolled, raised, shaped, dropped in boiling water, then baked. My favorite are blueberry bagels.

[Texas Fossil]

Bump!

[I still care]

It’s not that I think anyone is being “mean”, and that I think a kid should get special priveledges. Spending that kind of money brings it out of the “lemonade stand” category.

But I think when a 13 year old comes to city hall, and asks about starting a business, thoughtful people should go out of their way a little bit and say to themselves, “This is a kid. He doesn’t know diddlysquat about the way government works as far as business goes. We should be careful about what we tell him, knowing that he may need some guidance instead of just, “Hey go for it!”.