Wiener's circle for over thirty years was some scummy hot dog stand that survived gentrification in Chicago's Lincoln Park by becoming a iconoclassic institution for their excellent farcical customer service that could only be an accepted formula of insult towards late-night revelry crowd of drunks. The amount of bars that survives in this neighborhood is its sucessful ability to resist the corporate inundation of fecund corporate chains that are everywhere else and don't lend its way for a community to ever have a late night revelry crowd in all but a few spots in suburbia.
The Weiner circle though was about selling hotdogs and occupying a expensive real estate in Lincoln park could never be forever sustaining or possible. When it comes down to it this is just a scummy hotdog stand no different than a hotdog stand you would find in Lincoln Nebraska or Pensecola, Florida. They made some reality television program of this place that mostly just sells hotdogs that anyone with an IQ of 50 and a pot of boing water can cook and it was only a matter of time before wealthy fans of this place decided to "invest' in this business in order to preserve something they enjoy. The group of investors includes Ari Levy, whose father is Larry Levy, co-founder of Levy Restaurants (Spiaggia, Jake Melnick’s Corner Tap, River Roast). To be clear, The Wiener's Circle is not becoming a Levy restaurant. they actually think that having a hot dog stands of sassy ghetto smart alecks will somehow play in Peoria or even Milwaukee. 
Well it may play in Bay View and other parts of urban America where the children of sassy yuppies now reside with disposable incomes and plenty of demand for constant flux of entertainment now whether its walking down the street or ordering a hotdog. The stage show of this Wieners Circle may expand a bit but this will not really make it iconoclassic as media reporters may lead you to believe. it should not be surprising though to see the upper classes and investing gurus try to expand the concept of a eatery where a predominantly White upper class clientele trade insults with a working black underclass of servitude as this is the image they both want to accept and promote as valid entertainment. There is nothing special about this place unless you think looking down on those making less or doing a job that many look down upon as socially degrading is a trait you admire.
Ari Levy said one of the strong traits of The Wiener's Circle is the restaurant as theater, and they hope to leverage that to greater exposure.
“There’s great comedy that goes on there,” Levy said. “We think that, with help of some great people in the comedy world, we can make that experience so much better.” basically inequality and rudeness is now an acceptable business plan of the investing class and this pretty much represents what America has become and the business that gets the funding while getting promoted through free media coverage of all types as making this crappy hotdog stand an institution of the city of Chicago not for the taste but for the stage. A stage set up for these selfish drugged and drunked out twenty and thirtysomethings in their tight shirt and scurvy dresses to feel they are important and elate full abuse to someone as entertainment. This is the business plan that these Jewish clowns want to franchise out to more places. Good Luck Levy brothers. you can all get a sneak peak to what's coming to Cleveland and Peoria at http://www.chicagonewsreport.com/2012/07/video-assault-at-wieners-circle-caught.html
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