Dog Eat Dawg

NBC Chicago:

A Michigan-based Coney Island restaurant chain will debut its Detroit-style hot dogs in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood Monday.

But Chicago hot dog experts think the chain may be barking up the wrong bun.

“Chicago is a very tough market,” Patty Sullivan, spokeswoman for Portillo’s Restaurant Group tells The Detroit News.

The new sausage franchise opens at 3455 N. Southport Ave. in Chicago, just nine miles from the famed SuperDawg and less than two miles from Weiner Circle in Lincoln Park.

Despite the warnings, Co-Owner Lou Goldhaber thinks there’s a market.

“Native Detroiters are literally ready to rip our door off the hinges,” Lou Goldhaber, Co-owner of Leo’s Coney Island franchise, tells The Detroit News.

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