If you fancy yourself a champion hot dog eater, you’ll want to pay a visit to the Hy-Vee gas station on Wednesday. The Fast and Fresh store will be selling hot dogs for $1 each as part of National Hot Dog Day. Tyler Hulme, manager of the Hy-Vee Fast and Fresh store, dons his hot dog costume and shows his trophy from last year’s Hy-Vee hot dog day.
Tyler Hulme, the store’s manager, plans to sell a whole lot of hot dogs. Last year, the store sold almost 3,400. This year, the goal is 5,000.
Employees will man an outdoor grill from 10 a.m. to 2 p.
m., so people “can go inside and pay for however many they want, come outside and get them fresh off the grill,” Hulme said. Fast and Fresh is in front of the main Hy-Vee store, at 118 Wilmar Ave.
The crew will be ready for action. “We’ll have at least 10 of us out there,” Hulme said. Two of those people will work the grill.
Another two will serve customers who walk up. Many of the others will work at a table that’s set up as an assembly line. There will be at three people inside the store “ringing people up,” Hulme said.
He hopes the Grand Island location will lead all Hy-Vee gas stations in hot dog sales that day. Tyler Hulme is manager of Hy-Vee Fast and Fresh store. The store is already guaranteed to sell more than 3,000.
Hulme has pre-orders of 3,060 hot dogs, thanks in large part to Grand Island businesses. Hornady has ordered 2,400 hot dogs for its employees. Dinsdale’s has placed an order of 300 and the Gr.
