<P> The nightly tips are very high, and people have worked there for ten years or more . The location of the hot dog stand is just north of what used to be the Wrightwood Hotel . In 2008, the restaurant was briefly closed by health inspectors for not having hot running water where employees would wash their hands, and other food safety violations . </P> <P> In March 2016, the restaurant offered 3 - inch "Trump footlong" hot dogs . In June 2017 they advertised "Paris Accord compliant covfefe". </P> <P> One of the more famous employees is Roberta "Poochie" Jackson, who was featured (along with the restaurant) in a 2007 episode of the Showtime television version of the Chicago Public Radio program This American Life, as well as an episode of Extreme Fast Food on the Travel Channel . In Chicago travel guides, The Wieners Circle is often extolled as a source for authentic Chicago - style hot dogs and its uniquely abrasive customer relations . Journalist Catherine Price listed The Wieners Circle in her book 101 Places Not to See Before You Die, calling it "a microcosm of segregation in Chicago", and commenting, "If our metric were' places that make me sad about humanity,' late night at Wiener's Circle would have been at the top ." </P> <P> The restaurant was featured in an episode of Insomniac with Dave Attell on Comedy Central in 2002 . </P>

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