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Pink’s Hot Dogs opening in Las Vegas
Restaurant also serving up 30 to 35 new jobs
Friday, June 12, 2009 | 11:50 a.m.
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Hollywood’s landmark Pink’s Hot Dogs will soon be serving up its famous dogs in Las Vegas.
The hot dog hotspot will be opening in Planet Hollywood’s Miracle Mile Shops this August.
Pink’s founder Paul Pink started the brand with just a pushcart in 1939, selling chili dogs for 10 cents apiece. He later traded his cart for the restaurant in 1946, which Pink’s still operates out of today. Now 70 years older and $3 more expensive, Pink’s and its chili dogs have chosen Las Vegas as its second location to place its roots.
Hot dogs on Pink’s don the names of famous patrons like the “Martha Stewart dog” (10" hot dog, relish, onions, bacon, chopped tomatoes, sauerkraut & sour cream), the Rosie O’Donnell Long Island Dog (10" hot dog, topped with mustard, onions, chili and sauerkraut) and the Ozzy Spicy Dog (spicy Polish dog, nacho cheese, American cheese, grilled onions, guacamole and chopped tomatoes).
The restaurant has been featured on “The Today Show,” Food Network’s “Throwdown! With Bobby Flay” and episodes of “Nip/Tuck.”
Aside from hot dogs, Pink’s will be offering up a few new jobs. The restaurant is expecting to hire between 30 and 35 people as bartenders, line cooks and managers. A job fair will be hosted in July for the positions.
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You mean reopening, don't you?
Logic_should_rule, the Pink's opening in August 2009 will be the first free-standing restaurant in Vegas. Pink's hot dogs were sold at carts in Planet Hollywood and the Zanzibar Cafe when Planet Hollywood was the Aladdin.
I hope it is better than their old carts in the Zanzibar Cafe. Those hot dogs weren't that good....it was actually disappointing.
S711
dude...you can't beat costco's $1.50 polish dog. AND you get a drink!!!!
I don't know if it's gonna fly with the tourists, who have so many options. Better to put somewhere locals would go to and that's not a casino on the strip. We'll see.
Best hotdog for the price in Vegas is at Gold Coast.
Dont eat those Detroit dogs on Water street in Henderson. there made with Octopus. GO PENGUINS!!!
rush limpbow dog: 10 lbs of baloney, lard sauce,and oxicondoment
The Detroit Dogs on Water Street in Henderson are the best in the Valley! Pricier than Costco/Sam's Club dogs but still the best around. Worth the drive to Hooterville!
Pinky dogs? Whassup! Silly name - maybe a better product - perhaps not. Looky go on up the strip to Dino's for a good old down east dog from the cart!
they should have put this next to gypsy's. i think their customers would be the target market for a 10" tube of meat.
we'll see how long it takes for this comment to get removed.
Stevem, rather prejudiced and discriminatory mark, don't you think? From your other postings, I wouldn't have pegged you as a hillbilly, I pegged you as an intelligent person with something of value to speak about. OOPS!! Looks like I was wrong. It happens.
it was a JOKE, chill out. some of the best people i pretend to be friends with are gay.
if you read my other postings, like you say you do...i make fun of everyone pretty equally.
you didn't seem to have a problem when i made a joke about the baby found in the dumpster ( how could i NOT throw in "prom night dumpster baby" from "family guy" on that one ), the dead car salesman, holly madison, waterboarding, criss angel fans, catholics, or mormons.
The staff removed that remark, so I didn't see it (they obviously don't think you're funny either). If I had, the remark about you earlier would have applied too. But hey, you think you're funny, so enjoy yourself and I'll just peg you as an ignorant hillbilly and disregard anything you post from this point on as intelligent.
you'll disregard anything i post from this point on as intelligent?
thanks!
i think you meant to say "UNintelligent".
Actually, I should have written "disregard anything YOU THINK is intelligent". Thank you for allowing me to clarify further.
Shut up you two are arguing like a married couple. Sounds like you both need a hot dog.
LOLOLOLOL!! Okay, Lenny_V, that was a good one. I'll stop the madness. Thank you for the reality check.
I loved Pink's when I lived in L.A., but rarely wanted a hot dog enough to go out of my way to go there. I doubt I will be seeing the one here much either since there is no way I would go to the strip just for that.
I'll stick with the hot dog stand at Lowe's on Eastern in Henderson. Yummy!