![]() ![]() From all of us here at Vienna, we thank and congratulate Jan, Denise, and their entire team, who helped build this iconic landmark to an important part of Chicago’s landscape. ![]() With our storied history, it seems fitting on National Hot Dog Day and on the cusp of Vienna’s 125th anniversary, that our Factory Store & Café be named as the 125th recipient of the Hot Dog Hall of Fame. Out of all of the thousands of Vienna Beef customers, we have recognized 124 nationwide since the award was inaugurated back in 2006. The Vienna Beef Hot Dog Hall of Fame was created to honor hot dog operations that have achieved longevity and have developed into true neighborhood and city landmarks. In 2016, Jan and Denise opened a second store across the street from our factory at Pershing Road and Morgan Street, on Chicago’s South Side. She hired Denise Parente, a former customer who has taken the store to a new level of operations and customer service. For the last decade, Jan Wix has been at the helm of turning the Factory Store and Café into the landmark it is today. Cristel Wiedle-Knight, who began as an employee in our Damen Avenue Factory Store, and is now our sausage miester. June Rohel had a great smile and was a friend to the employees and the neighborhood. FOX 32 Chicago Vienna Beef Factory Store and Cafe on North Side permanently closing A Chicago hot dog institution is about to close its doors on the North Side and thousands of Vienna. Joe Schnieder always had specials of the day, hour, and minute. When the Depression Era hit, the Vienna Beef Factory Store became one of the first hot dog stands featuring a Vienna Beef hot dog dragged through the garden, with yellow mustard, chopped onion, bright green relish, and cucumber to satisfy hungry folks in the neighborhood.įor the past 45 years, the Factory Store and Café has been located on the Damen and Fullerton property, with a ‘melting pot’ of noteworthy mangers, employees and customers. Manager Leo Braun is well remembered as being part of the lore that always had delicious sandwiches accompanied by great stories. Vienna Beef was a very important element of the city with a store that catered to the community and whose staff had loads of personality-many of them were ‘characters’ in their own right. The original factory opened a store on Halsted and Maxwell Street, in the area that used to be referred to as ‘The Great West Side’. The museum is open by appointment only.Since its inception at the Columbian Exposition/World’s Fair in 1893, Vienna Beef has always had a factory store and sandwich shop on the grounds of its manufacturing facility. The factory will likely be replaced by a driving range with a restaurant, bar and public riverwalk. Visitors were able to leave messages about their visit and love for hot dogs on a memory wall at the museum. The museum even had a photo of Vienna Beef’s first factory as it was demolished by a wrecking ball shaped like a hot dog, according to World’s Fair Chicago. It features photos from the early days of Vienna Beef, a meat grinder from 1859, Vienna Beef signs, a hot dog cart and books about hot dogs, among other things. Damen Ave., opened in 2018 to celebrate Vienna Beef’s 125th anniversary. The museum at the factory and store, 2501 N. The Vienna Beef factory is moving out of its longtime Bucktown home and, when it goes, it’ll shut down its museum, a spokeswoman said. ![]() CHICAGO - There’s only a week left to get a firsthand look at Chicago’s hot dog history. ![]()
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