Ready to see if you can become Top Dog? Prepare to eat a lot of Chicago-style dogs, Polishes and Italian beefs (and maybe a few Pizza Puffs) between now and October 17-and don't forget to scan those QR codes. You'll be able to log the QR code for an individual stand multiple times-Vienna Beef is giving hot dog kits to the people who log the most visits at a specific hot dog stand.Īnd even if you don't love celery salt enough to eat dogs sprinkled with it more than once a week, anyone who logs a single visit to a hot dog stand each week is entered into a weekly drawing for a Vienna Beef trucker hat. Visits to each of the participating stands ( Vienna Beef has provided a list) can be logged by scanning the QR code that has been placed near the register at each location. In order to participate and begin logging visits to participating hot dog stands, you'll need to register on the Hot Dog Challenge website. Vienna Beef will also recognize the mayor of each of the 15 "neighborhoods" that hot dog stands fall into-the person with the most check-ins in each area will get a T-shirt and six pounds of hot dogs to enjoy. Second-, third- and fourth-place winners will be considered Hot Dog Royalty, earning a catered hot dog party for up to 40 friends, a miniature hot dog cart and a ribbon to commemorate their accomplishments. The grand prize winner will also receive a Top Dog T-shirt, $1000 to spend at and a hot dog trophy. What's in it for you? The person who eats at the most participating hot dog stands will be crowned Top Dog, earning our tickets to a "VIP entertainment experience" every month for an entire year (that could include everything from Chicago Bears box seats to a sought-after tour of the Vienna Beef factory in Chicago). That gives you around 59 days to explore 369 spots that serve hot dogs, including stands throughout the city, the suburbs, Indiana and Wisconsin. Today, Vienna Beef launched its Hot Dog Stand Challenge, asking hungry encased meat-loved to eat at as many participating hot dog stands as possible between today (August 19) and October 17. But local hot dog manufacturer Vienna Beef is giving Chicagoans a good reason to visit as many area hot dog stands as possible in the coming weeks. Vienna Beef and Dayton Street didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.You don't need an excuse to eat at Chicago hot dog stands in the summer, or any other time of the year. Chicagos Famous Vienna All-Beef Hot Dog on a Steamed Poppy-Seed Bun. Vienna Beef was founded by Austrian-Hungarian immigrants in 1893 during the World’s Columbian Exposition. Its recent redevelopments include 2101 West Carroll Avenue, 2137 West Walnut and 1500 West Carroll Avenue. New York-based Drive Shack is trying to bring an upscale driving range to the old headquarters property on the North Branch of the Chicago River, near developer Sterling Bay’s planned Lincoln Yards megadevelopment, according to Crain’s.ĭayton Street has been quite active in the Kinzie Industrial Corridor since 2014. The new location is ideal for Vienna Beef because it’s near the company’s manufacturing facility in the Stockyards Industrial Park and its workforce, Dayton Street managing principal Howard Wedren said in a statement. JLL brokers Scott Duerkop and Dominic Carbonari represented Dayton Street and NAI Hiffman’s Chris Gary represented Vienna Beef. The building is located within the Kinzie Industrial Corridor, not far from the booming Fulton Market area of the West Loop, once known for its stock of meatpackers and wholesalers.
Vienna Beef signed a long-term lease to occupy the entire 42,000-square-foot building, which Chicago-based Dayton Street Partners bought for $2.8 million in 2018. Its manufacturing employees will remain in a more than 100,000-square-foot facility at 1000 West Pershing Road in Bridgeport. The company will soon move from its longtime home at 2501 North Damen Avenue in Bucktown to 2501 West Fulton Street in East Garfield Park. Hot dog producer Vienna Beef is relocating its headquarters to a recently-renovated industrial building on the Near West Side.
2501 West Fulton Street (Credit: Google Maps)
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