For more information, visit their Facebook page. The Original Hot Dog Factory-Harrisburg will be open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. “I wasn’t expecting this reaction, but I’m very grateful,” she said. It’s already pretty busy, Williams said, but it’s a good thing. The original Hot Dog Factory had a soft opening Tuesday and remains open until Saturday-the official grand opening. “I’m excited to step out and try something new.” “He’s super successful and he’s taught me a lot,” Cornelius said.
Green hopes that he can serve as a role model and leader to his employees, which he hopes will one day be his own business owner. It’s not about money, but about impact on life.” This is what he does to young people visiting his barbershop, and that’s what he plans to do at the restaurant. It’s about mentorship-investing in the next generation. “It brings people together.”īut the food is only a small part of Green’s mission for the restaurant. To top it off, they have a number of deep fried sweets, including Oreos, Twinkies, and Funnel Cake Sticks. Deviating from their name, they also offer wings, burgers and chicken sandwiches and nuggets. He is a member of the younger staff, which Greene says is already like a family, or in Cornelius’s case, is actually family.Ĭustomers can order from a long menu of toppings-loaded beef, turkey, Italian and chicken dogs, as well as sausages and bratwursts. When customers enter the small shop on Market Street, they will be greeted with a smile by Green’s nephew, Tevin Cornelius. Original Hot Dog Factory on Market Street in Harrisburg “I’m excited to grow the business and give people a chance to be a part of it. “I thought, I should invest in myself,” said Williams, a surgical technician. Owners Williams and Howson Green, two longtime Harrisburg residents, are ready to try their hand at the restaurant industry.īoth owners are entrepreneurs at heart, Williams previously owned a dollar store and Greene is currently working as a barber at his family’s business, Heads Up, a barbershop in Uptown.įor Williams and Green, their new venture into the hot dog world represents an opportunity for growth and a new challenge. And this is going to be expensive.While the franchise may be national, everything about its ownership is local. "I wonder what (Harrisburg Mayor) Linda Thompson thinks of this," he wondered aloud with a laugh. Schrom sat at a booth in the back and sipped his coffee happily, as he chatted with a man in an apron. From his seventh floor apartment, the city looks like a winter wonderland he said. Harrisburg resident Jere Schrom walked to the restaurant from North Street.
Not long after she opened, a man with a snowplow came along and dug her a parking place. Their generosity comes out." It sure seemed that way to Dimitrakopoulos. "When people get stuck in the elements, they work together. "You just see in general people getting friendlier," she said of the diner crowd. Nothing was open, and then they saw Dimitrakopoulos' smiling face in the window. Sharon and Jerry Militello walked all over downtown looking for somewhere to eat near their Pennsylvania Place apartment. The snowblowers were going, but no one was open, not even a bar, he said. "There's nowhere else to go." Loveland walked down the middle of Second Street from all the way from the YMCA to get to the diner. "I'm so glad you guys are open," Mike Loveland of Harrisburg said as he burst through the door with a cold rush of air. "I'm thinking, 'Oh my God, they're not getting service as quickly as usual," she said. American, Diner Restaurant in Harrisburg. Dimitrakopoulos filled the orders as fast as she could, but there were more people than a normal Saturday, she said. Flamingo Grill (3 ratings) (717) 238-9195 317 Market St, Harrisburg, PA 17101 View Map. By mid-morning the long narrow diner was packed, nearly every available orange swiveling stool occupied by a hungry patron. She cooked fiercely on a large grill in the front window, cracking eggs, plating sausage and tossing hashbrowns. There wasn't much help-only two people waiting tables-but no one seemed to mind. She couldn't leave them hungry and out in the cold, so Dimitrakopoulos parked her car and opened up shop. Waiting outside was a group of hungry customers, huddled in the snow, waiting. But when she got there she found more than snow. The pair own the small downtown diner on Market Street. to make the snow-covered trek to the Flamingo Grill. Dimitrakopoulos left her husband and her twin boys at their midtown home around 6:30 a.m. She was just going to shovel the sidewalks. Athena Dimitrakopoulos had no intention of working Saturday morning after more than 18 inches of snow pounded the midstate.
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