Why aren't there any major hot dog chains?

Quality hot dogs are super expensive

Hot dogs are viewed as low-quality, shit-tier food you get at a ballpark or when you don't want to cook.
It's an impossible image to shake.

wendys here in Australia is a hotdog place but i think theyre shifting to a milk bar, or there could be two businesses with the same name.

>>9178649
like 80c each tops, cheaper id you make your own.

>>9178652
call it wurst then

burger king has hot dogs

>>9178649
so's quality beef

>>9178652
that's never stopped anyone before

It's called any gas station in America.

>>9178666
you can get a pizza slice or sub at the same sort of places. plus the thing with chains is they're, ideally, hygenic, no one trusts gas station food.

>>9178672
used to get hotdogs from A+ gas station all the time for a buck and were alwasys proper with fresh buns

I guess it depends on how many scumbags live in the area that devalue places liek this

>>9178672
I'd trust a hotdog over a slice or sandwich at an american gas station.

>>9178642
There's Wienersnitchzel and Sonic, both the latter is more of a drive-in that heavily advertises hot-dogs.

Its just kind of a dumb concept. Its the same as sandwich shops. Why setup a big chain restaurant for something so simple to make at home?


Theres these as >>9178693 said and they're both alright. I prefer wienerschnitzel though. Something about their hot dogs is just always good to me.

Does Nathan's count?

File: Wienerschnitzel-Store-Picture-3-550x420.jpg (58KB, 550x420px) Image search: [Google]

58KB, 550x420px

Uuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....

>tfw my country has a fast food hot dog chain where you can get two dogs with three toppings each, soda, fries, three little cheese empanadas and a sundae for like $4

>>9179086
I want to see the face

>>9179086
>My country
>For like $4

Assuming I trust your currency adjustment, Paco.

>>9179086
tfw I can drive 5 minutes to Costco and buy a large hot dog and soda with free refills for 1.50 USD

>>9179110
US$4.56 to be more precise

>>9179128
Yeah but you probably pay $8 a gallon for gasoline or too poor to even own a car. There's always a catch in the economy somewhere.

File: cupids.jpg (15KB, 348x348px) Image search: [Google]

15KB, 348x348px

Hardly major, but one of the few boons of living in/near the San Fernando Valley.

Sonic?

>>9179222
Dairy Queen!

File: uOGVJu4.jpg (48KB, 450x600px) Image search: [Google]

48KB, 450x600px

>>9179228
>He didn't get tendies with country gravy and toast

Son, I am disappoint.

>>9178642


There are a few pic related around Alabama, mostly in gas stations (as its own little restaurant area, not just a roller rack or some shit).

Pretty meh, also feel like they were more of a thing maybe 20 years ago or so.

File: image.jpg (42KB, 500x348px) Image search: [Google]

42KB, 500x348px

>>9179235

>>9178655
Two businesses with the same name. We had properly Wendy's years ago but they pulled out in the 80s/90s. They're still in New Zealand.

>>9178655
>like 80c each tops, cheaper id you make your own
I work at what arguably constitutes a "high end" hot dog place and I can tell you that you wrong. The place I work at is an old as fuck Coney Island that basically uses the best everything on their dogs. I'm talking locally sourced all beef quality hot dogs, locally sourced buns that we steam (or toast, if the customer asks), high quality onions imported from out-of-country, stone-ground high quality mustard, and chili that's made with insanely high quality beef and chilis.

They cost us around $1.50 to make, not including labor (which means making the chili, dicing onions, steaming buns, grilling the dogs, and putting all that shit together), and are probably the best hot dogs I've had for all that.

You have to take my word for it, but these hot dogs are not possible to replicate at home. They cost a shitload for a hot dog, but they are so fucking phenomenal it doesn't matter.

The Midwest takes it's Coney Dogs very, very seriously.

>>9178642
ther'es a major hotdog chain in your mother's ass, faggot

>>9179280

cuck cold

If I could teleport once somewhere and back and once only, right now I think it would be to Reykjavik to buy a fucking hotdog

>>9179397
So sorry about the brain damage.
Get well soon.

File: Portillos.jpg (99KB, 746x488px) Image search: [Google]

99KB, 746x488px

Does Portillo's count? At least in the Midwest they are all around. Probably my favorite tasting hotdog in the chicagoland area as Jean & Judes is actually super overrated and shit tier.

why can't you get a foot long dog at subway? they come up with bizarre novelty toppings but the never think just fall back on the classic sandwich?

>>9179845
>hot dog
>sandwich

Fucking millenials...

>>9179709
This, and Sonics.

>>9179280
im talking about the sausage. even then $1.50 is nothing

5 guys has hotdogs

I like them cause they remind me of my grandpa

>>9179871
Until you realize that we have to mark it up to $3.50 on the customers end to turn any kind of profit.

It's pretty fucking hard to convince someone that a hot dog can be worth that much. Now granted, our hot dogs are about the best you can get, but $3.50 is a hard sell.

>>9179905
which is still pretty cheap. depends on your region. everyone here will pay $3.00 for a shitty bunnings hotdog, i bet theres a potential market that hasnt been tapped into

>>9179905
hey I mean with chili and onions that seems pretty reasonable if they're indeed as good as you say. fucking five guys charges over $6 for a shitty hamburger so

File: 11274301.jpg (118KB, 1024x768px) Image search: [Google]

118KB, 1024x768px

If you live around Houston and don't mind something so ridiculously bad for you.

>>9179904
Where did he touch you?

>>9179180
Fuck, I miss Cali...

File: download (5).jpg (8KB, 259x194px) Image search: [Google]

8KB, 259x194px

If you want a decent dog for cheap get them at Loves. 2 quarter pound dogs for $3.33, pile on whatever you like. There are about 6 types of sausages to choose from and the turnover on them is very fast there, you won't be getting something that's been sitting out half a day.

>>9178642
Hot dogs are easy to prepare at home so no point in going out to get them, easier than pizzas, burgers, etc.

File: 1390691849136.jpg (43KB, 512x303px) Image search: [Google]

43KB, 512x303px

>>9178642

But anon, there are.

File: 1468565617811.png (71KB, 800x600px) Image search: [Google]

71KB, 800x600px

>>9179053
This.

My city has 2 of them...

File: hundo dolla hot dogga.jpg (219KB, 667x925px) Image search: [Google]

219KB, 667x925px

i tried this fuckin thing when it came to town, complete scam, literally paid hundred bucks for a sausage with some mustard

>>9178642
Bunnings

hot dogs are the garbage parts of the animal

>>9180231
It's not really garbage if they can make it taste good and provide nutrition. Minimizing waste is a good thing.

I just had to complete about 9 captchas to post this. Is it because I do them too fast now and it thinks I'm a bot? It's getting really annoying.

>>9179944
this, is this only houston tho? use to go there all the time in my childhood, my buddy says they made a mean burger too

File: thumb_600.jpg (137KB, 590x590px) Image search: [Google]

137KB, 590x590px

>>9180282
Pretty sure it's only Houston area.
It's food for midday drunks and fat people over 50 mostly.

File: IMG_1504.jpg (32KB, 400x400px) Image search: [Google]

32KB, 400x400px

>>9178642
Best hotdog chain coming through.

File: Fuel-Station_Pilot-Flying-J.png (247KB, 1000x617px) Image search: [Google]

247KB, 1000x617px

>there are no hot dog chai-

File: IMG_0987.jpg (38KB, 600x334px) Image search: [Google]

38KB, 600x334px

Dog Haus is pretty awesome

File: chicago_dog.jpg (15KB, 350x297px) Image search: [Google]

15KB, 350x297px

>>9179709
the best part about Chicago is you can find a dozen amazing little hot dog joints hidden around town

>>9180316
>>9180282
>>9179944
What the hell I didn't know JCI was Houston only, I thought it was a national chain. I've heard on the radio that their burger is underrated the best thing there.

>>9180394
well if that's the best thing then that's depressing(4u)

File: GOAT dog.jpg (132KB, 800x600px) Image search: [Google]

132KB, 800x600px

>>9178642
this is the GOAT dog

>>9178642
Because theres no such thing as a good hot dog. Once you start approaching anything that is quality you're inventing a sausage

>>9180809
give me the low down on nathans hot dogs. good? over rated?

>>9180815
Overrated. It's still a fucking hot dog. Buy real sausage

File: IMG_2300.jpg (369KB, 1600x1067px) Image search: [Google]

369KB, 1600x1067px

what would /ck/ choose?

>>9180815
A hot dog is a hot dog. There is very little difference between the lowest low tier hot dog and the highest high tier hot dog.

>>9180822
I have to disagree. A chicken pork whatever else Bar S hotdog tastes like garbage compared to a Nathans all beef. The meat matters. I want to try Hebrew national brands but they are pricey. I stock up on ballpark and nathans when on sale.

>>9180830
what is a reasonable price to pay for premium dog? say a dozen of them at the store.

>>9180830
bar S are good for weekend camping excursions when you want a lot of dogs

>>9180835
Haven't seen a hotdog sell in a package of 12, thats going into sausage territory. But to me a reasonable price for 8-10 dogs would be $6 or below.

>>9180842
Nothing wrong with them at all, just they suck compared to a better dog like a ballpark. Bar S are great on a grill I think. I like mine semi burnt. The casing gets almost black. Their polish sausages and hot links are great.Extra SpicynHot Hot link cooked until it bursts on a corn tortilla with some spicy mustard. Fantastic.

>>9180421
its better than being shot which is bound to happen if you ,live in chicago

>>9180815
get the boars head ones

>>9180863
Pretty much anything Boars Head is top tier. Had a publix deli sub with boars head turkey and it ruined me. No other deli turkey comes close.

>>9180861
only if you hang around the shitty neighborhoods anon.

File: Snag Stand-9234.jpg (553KB, 800x576px) Image search: [Google]

553KB, 800x576px

>>9178642
We have snag stand in Australia. Too bad the Melbourne store shut down

>>9180821
Cincinnati Red, German Shepard, order of Onion rings.

File: JamesConeyIslandlogo.gif (4KB, 200x200px) Image search: [Google]

4KB, 200x200px

281

>>9179709
Yeah, portillos is spreading up toward Wisconsin. Give it 10 years and it'll be a regional chain.

>>9179992
GOAT hot dog

Sonic has some pretty good corndogs

>>9180821
>"""chicago""" hotdog
>green fucking peppers
>peperoncini
these people need to be executed

File: image.jpg (557KB, 2048x1365px) Image search: [Google]

557KB, 2048x1365px

>>9180421
do I detect some jealousy?

File: datdog1.jpg (2MB, 2048x1483px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 2048x1483px

I know about Sonic and Weinerschnitzel, though we don't have a Weinerschnitzel anywhere near us.

The place I often do to for hot dogs is a local place called Dat Dog. I think they're great, check out the menu. I partially like them because they have so many sausage options. The Alligator and crawfish sausage here is pretty damn good for example.

>>9180821
Junkyard dogs! Just so I could say the name

>>9179104
tfw = that feel when
mfw = my face when

lurk more faggot

>>9179053
I'd pay for like a fancier version of that that made high quality hot dogs on brioche buns or something but fast.

>>9178672
Gas station food is my hangover cure. Wouldn't eat it for dinner, though.

>90+ posts
>no mention of Nathan's

>>9182266
This is reminding me why I haven't eaten out in 7 years.

>have to take time to read everything when people expect me to order
>have to try and comprehend how the fuck I'm supposed to organize my order according to this clusterfuck of a menu
>probably stammer and talk too quietly, looking like a bitch in front of everyone around me
>people behind the counter giving each other looks like "man this fucker is weird"

I don't know how you guys do it.

File: 1500323772719.jpg (84KB, 294x295px) Image search: [Google]

84KB, 294x295px

because we saved that idea for you.
build it and I will cum >:P

>>9183099
By not being social travesties. Additionally, just step to the side while you look over the menu or step into the 21st century and look up the menu online before you get there.

>>9183119
>By not being social travesties.

How.

>just step to the side while you look over the menu

like a sperg

>step into the 21st century and look up the menu online before you get there.

Not all places have menus.

File: 1481079745172.jpg (304KB, 806x453px) Image search: [Google]

304KB, 806x453px

>>9180421
No, pizza (if you like Chicago pizza) and hot dogs are the only things good about Chicago.

Well, unless you like going to the second-oldest baseball stadium in the US, which is pretty cool.

But there is absolutely nothing else good about Chicago.

>>9180821
Fuck Dogtown.

File: bikerules.jpg (426KB, 1653x1023px) Image search: [Google]

426KB, 1653x1023px

>>9180204
So this was basically a Maille mustard advertisment and you fell for it

File: ramsat.gif (443KB, 500x319px) Image search: [Google]

443KB, 500x319px

>>9179280
>locally sourced all beef quality hot dogs
>locally sourced buns
>high quality onions imported from out-of-country
You act like being locally sourced automatically makes things more prestigious, then boast about the imported onions. Which is it, is locally sourced a pro, or is that only when convenient?

>>9183339
>They can't both be good

There actually is a chain here in PA called Yocco's

>>9180326
Pilot sells hotdogs?

Snoopy's hot dogs in Raleigh reporting in.

They're not amazingly good but damn they're cheap.

>>9179139
I wish. Gas is too cheap and the city is ridiculously full of cars. Some other actually important things are way expensive though, like health and education.

>>9183494
Also McD's is like five times more expensive than in the US

I don't really like Weiner

>>9178642
>nathans.png

>>9183339
Onions specifically are famous for how literally the specific make up of the dirt can totally change the taste when all other factors are basically equal.

Bread is highly dependent on the recipe and bread not made locally is going to be chock full of preservatives. Breed and how the cows are raised is much more important than location for beef.

we call hot dogs queer sandwiches in my neck of the woods

nothing straight about putting meat between two buns, finishing it with a condiment on top

but when you put in your mouth, it fits just right and feels natural though

File: A73C91EA-3C5D-447D-B76F-9A8FAD9EED00-370-0000001DB82F74BF.jpg (129KB, 600x400px) Image search: [Google]

129KB, 600x400px

>>9178642
Doogies if you're from New England

>>9178642
>pinks hotdogs

>>9183173
>I cant wait 3 seconds or so to cross infront
if you dont have those three seconds maybe you should wake up earlier/be in an ambulence

>>9183124
>like a sperg
As opposed to standing in place while nervously checking on the guy behind you, eventually stammering out something picked at random from the menu?
Spergier than that?

>>9180322
>going the extra step and adding a glans to your hotdog mascot, because it apparently wasn't phallic enough before

>>9183124
Also, sorry for posting twice in a row, but THAT is your idea of an difficult-to-read menu? It's just a list of sausages and hot dogs, then some toppings and sides. They're all priced clearly and written in very plain text. No fancy designs or anything like that.
I could understand having a problem with the design, but not its legibility. Are you dyslexic?

>>9182365
LA area has Dog Haus

>>9183627
back to rebbit

>>9183796
Not the person you responded to but I also thought it was a poorly designed menu. There are too many color changes within the same menu item making it less coherent. When you start reading the sausages it makes you read one, go down to see the next one, then go right for the one after that. A list should make you read in one direction with uniformity. The toppings aren't so bad but it all looks mashed together in a bit of a mess.

It's not illegible, but it's not the easiest to read and simple things like that can make someone's experience less enjoyable. They have people who study this stuff, about where your eyes go when reading a menu, how long they stay at certain places, etc. It's a big deal that can actually cost you money if a menu is that poorly designed.

>>9183099
You don't have to memorize the whole menu, just glance at the menu and order what catches your eye first.
Pay attention to whoever orders before you and try to mimic them.
Take a deep breath and remember that nobody else is gonna scrutinize you like you've been doing, order legibly and everyone will forget you existed the moment you step out of their line of sight.
The shrill little fag boys who say shit like "social travesties" are less than a step ahead of you but act like cocky fuckers for it- they get a lot more boogers and cum in their food than a humble autist who tripped over the word "cheddar" a little.

Hotdogs are poodoo. I went vegan in 1998 just to avoid shit like hotdogs.

>>9183908
>I went vegan in 1998 just to avoid shit like hotdogs.
and yet you remain an avid fan of wieners.

File: img.png (14KB, 349x402px) Image search: [Google]

14KB, 349x402px

>>9179032
>Its just kind of a dumb concept. Its the same as sandwich shops. Why setup a big chain restaurant for something so simple to make at home?

>>9183912
hue