Portillo’s Hot Dogs In Orlando Is Now OPEN - Soft Opening Food Review / Chicago Themed Restaurant
Portillo's Hot Dogs Orlando Soft Opening
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welcome everyone adam the woo here
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today's adventure begins here at market
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street market square downtown
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celebration but i will be
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getting in my vehicle heading over doubt
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just
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oh the church bells are ringing that
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must mean it must be
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well i'll have my clock i'm guessing it
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is probably noon
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it might be one it might be 11. i think
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it's noon heading over to the soft
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opening it was slated for a june 15th by
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the way recording of this june 10th
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2021 now portillo's is the subject
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matter
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that i am talking about a chicago food
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based company which i've been to the one
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in buena park california a few times
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but the one here is now finally rearing
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its head
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i'm heading over there and i'm inviting
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you to join me
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shall you oh yeah it is noon 12 o'clock
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so should get some pretty good crowd
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levels on how the lines are over at
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portillo
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once i get over there noon on the dock
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now this is located on the corner
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of daryl carter parkway and palm parkway
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technically it's on palm parkway
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and i have to do well not a u-turn i
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have to just like do a little turn in
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here
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portillos i made it they were cones
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it says drive through entrance this way
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also parking this way i'm gonna actually
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park
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and go inside but you can see the
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drive-through
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kind of lengthy yeah quite a few cars
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very excited the worker delivering some
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of the food
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orlando florida portillo's
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it's in the same parking lot as the new
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white castle
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and there's a little portillo's hot dog
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stand over there too
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once i park off show in more detail
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limit 10 sandwiches per car
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so if you're doing takeout this is the
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takeout line the drive-thru
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limit 10 cents so you can only have 10
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sandwiches
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and this place is a real beehive of
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activity
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because not only is there
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on this side of the parking lot the
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world's largest white castle which i
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attended opening day
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of that but there's also this new
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establishment
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as well and there is the dog house i'm
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just going to walk along
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the side of these stanchions here and
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show that this is how it originally
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started the guy who created the company
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and the owner started the dog house
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oh yeah vienna red hots that is the way
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to have
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a chicago dog fries and all the
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trimmings
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35 cents and over here is a little bit
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of information about
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the dog house in 1963
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at the age of 23 with a 1
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100 investment dick portillo opened a 6
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by 12
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12 trailer known as the dog house
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located in
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villa v-i-l-l-l-a park
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villa park illinois the dog house had no
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running water or
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a restroom to keep the water heating he
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had a connected
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50-foot garden hose adjacent to the
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building
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this is the dog house back in 1963.
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there it is right there there is mr
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portillo in front of there and here he
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is later in life
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at in 2003 in front of the original dog
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house
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replica so this might be what i'm
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standing in front of
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might not be the original
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dog house it might be a replica it says
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not actual prices
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these reflect 1963 because you know some
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will probably show up here trying to get
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a price match
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on that and you know at this current
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time state of the date
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and i say to the time frame before
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coming over here not too busy so if
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you're in this neighborhood
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and you would like a chicago dog or
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maybe a steak sandwich
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or they also have a shake that has a
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cake get a full slice of cake
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in a shake it's not that not that not
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that long of a lie
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i believe it's not called a steak
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sandwich i think it's called a beef
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sandwich
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i'm not sure what the difference is
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today i'm getting chicago dogs
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and a soda and maybe some fries news
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news man
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bites dog a news man bites a dog
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i've never seen a news man bite a dog
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you know what i think it says news
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man bites dog and another business has
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gone to the dog okay so
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a man is eating a hot dog or it could be
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if you read it differently it's newsman
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bites the news man
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bites a dog you can look at it either
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way right there
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portillos hot dog beef burgers and so
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they have salads
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as well and they're still doing a little
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bit of work on it because it's
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technically not
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opening it's not grand opening this once
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again is a soft opening they're just
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preparing
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they have everything set up once those
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receive their food go through the drive
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through or getting takeout or
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dining in and then leaving they have the
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cone set up here that way you exit
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plenty of people in the drive-through
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line i'm gonna go inside i'm gonna
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attempt
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to eat in okay i am now inside we have
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the big p
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here on the floor standing for portillos
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and i'm seeing a television up there
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no that's not a television that is a
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music yet that's a guitar amp
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got the american flag we got order pick
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online order pick up there
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we have a lot of coca-cola memorabilia
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as well
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and they are they're making the
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announcement on who's elvis presley
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up top as well and these are the booths
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there are plenty of places to dine in
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and sit and there's also tables as well
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i believe it says oh it says catering
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right up there and of course they are
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now hiring as well
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yeah just so i go through here and this
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looks to be the line where i go
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and order the food now there is a
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television over on this eye on the other
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side of the amp
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oh there's another elvis up top here
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elvis presley i like the fact that they
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have ceiling fans in here
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and there is a kick drum as well and a
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really big
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shoe and look at this guitar with the
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frets and the strings
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running all along the side there is a
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guitar on the wall
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and there's some of the options there
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they have a beef and cheddar croissant
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they have a chocolate cake shake they
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have chili
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they have super cheeseburgers yeah they
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have just a little bit of everything
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there is also a barbie and midge
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doll case up there as well and i like
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all the stuff that's on the side of the
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the walls we got the shangri-la's we got
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jan and dean we got
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reach for the batter whip sun theme we
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got an aretha
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franklin record up there aretha now
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yeah the the oh there we go we got uh
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the dyno up there the sinclair
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dyno bridget there has a lot of a lot of
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nostalgia
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in here and at the end of the guitar has
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the the restaurant names spelled out
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there
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portillos hot dog beef burgers and
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salads good food dying with us
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that's what it states right there it
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says good food dined with us now there
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is
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hello there's the menu right over there
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the number one is the big italian beef
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i'm going to go for the two hot dogs
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special but i want to get chicago style
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dogs that's kind of kind of my go-to
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that's a big record on the side of the
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wall over there too it says feed your
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soul with rock and roll oh there's a lot
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more stuff on the menu
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there's a big menu board just a little
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bit of a line but really
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not as bad as i thought it would be
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weight loss i'm almost to the front
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and there is a little gas bump here
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mobile gas
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special right there oh there is a
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federal daily oh i wonder what's behind
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oh here we go right there there's a chef
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of some sort that says good food
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dine in so i like how they have
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different stuff other than just
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portillos
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says you get more with esso
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okay i'm gonna now go over here and look
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more at the menu itself you can make it
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a large for a dollar
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oh they also have hamburgers there's
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hamburgers there
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okay once i actually get up to this
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section it just it's not moving super
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fast but at least i got in here
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on a timely manner but i'm looking back
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at the guitar and this kind of shows the
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whole
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entire restaurant and they have lots of
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neon this is the back side of the the
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line beyond here
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wow
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there is a big root beer like i said
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what do you call that big root beer
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like i don't know what you got i don't
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know what you would call that but it's
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like a big jug
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big jug of root beer with a nozzle on it
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what do you call it i always think of
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pete's dragon when lampi is dancing
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in the bar scenes on the beer keg on the
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beer cage
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he wasn't dancing on root beer though
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lampy was not dancing on root beer
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all right i'm looking now it's not
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called the chicago dog it's called the
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portillo's beef hot dog
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there is a regular and a jumbo the jumbo
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is 3.99 that it has mustard relish onion
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tomato celery salt
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pickles and squirt peppers i think i
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might get two of those
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i think i might get two of those and
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then maybe a chili cheese doll
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that's what i'm gonna do i'm gonna get
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two of those and a chili cheese dog now
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i don't know if any of that correlates
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to the famous fry whether it's famous
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five not the famous fry the famous five
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you can see there's one two three four
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five
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italian beef and sausage combo a spiced
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chicken sandwich
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a double char-boiled cheeseburger the
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two hot dogs is what i'm going with but
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i'm gonna get an additional
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chili cheese dog they also have a polish
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they also have onion rings and they also
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have
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new hot grdrg grd
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niara sauce oh i wonder what that is hot
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grd on our sauce they also have these
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desserts
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they have the chocolate cake which you
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can also get in the shake
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as well okay yeah i'm just i'm going
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with the two chicago dogs aka the
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portilla's beef hot dog
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but they also have they also have
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chopped salad now i have heard good
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stuff about this spicy chicken sandwich
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i might have to get that for another
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time
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they have different sizes this is the
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large oh that is the large drink that is
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the large fries or onion rings
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then they have small and they have the
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small there they have the lcd screen
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with the cheese
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as well and you can see a maxwell polish
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sausage sign back there
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and they are fresh baked bread over
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it's very exciting everyone in here is
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very excited all right
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yeah they haven't eaten about three or
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four hours
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i haven't either i'm pretty hungry i i
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know how they feel look there's a
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traffic light now
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fresh baked bread only on that rack oh
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look at that steam emitting from the
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onions over there
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i'm getting a peek into the kitchen the
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customer is the foundation of our
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business
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mr portilla stated that cheese fries why
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not add some cheese fries
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to your order now the drive-through
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is over there and they have workers
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delivering the food out to the car i
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have ordered
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my number is 301 301 is my order
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i have to head down to the end oh look
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at the order board up here they are very
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organized it says time to dine
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also says in progress right over there i
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really like
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the setup so you know when you're your
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order now i am number 301
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so mine is in progress so right there
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301
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that's me there's the pickup area here
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that is where i ordered down there
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here's where they
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drop the food off oh that is where they
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have the fries or the fry stations over
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in there
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once again it does say that they are
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hiring and there is the original dog
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photo right up there there's the
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homemade chocolate cake
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oh look some of the celebrities
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that have stopped off in here oh it's
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the seinfeld no super
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you guy interesting oh and here
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here is a jukebox as well oh this is
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interesting
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they have close encounters of the third
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kind if you want to have a little
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creepy ambiance alien ambiance in here
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they also have the beatles
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and they also have captain and teneal
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yeah look at this this is an old-school
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style
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little jukebox here very very nice with
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the hand writing on the side
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we got we got beetles right there we
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also got
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what do we got elsa on here we have band
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on the run paul mccartney wings
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and here is a traffic signal oh here's
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some of that cake
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right over in there this is looking back
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i'm just trying to give the full
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the full like loop around this entire
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place oh there's a tricycle or some sort
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of a
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well some sort of a bike don't take that
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down
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any slides 301 is still in progress
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they also do catering
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okay i showed enough i was waiting for
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my food now oh i see my number up there
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301 has been moved to the time
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oh that's mine right there 301 yeah
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yeah we're waiting to see the receipt
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yeah okay thank you vlogging for youtube
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i am yeah hi you want to be in the video
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thank you angie
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i got my food just waiting on waiting on
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the beverage there we go 301 right there
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this is definitely a large that is by
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far not a small
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all right thank you bye have a good day
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well and this
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is what we're dealing with a little
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condiment bar so i got some ketchup
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also got my plastic cutlery they have
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their own
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little inscription on the napkins there
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yum
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beef this is the bag itself with the
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hot dog right there looking very very
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content and happy
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waving the tail there that's the size of
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the onion ring now this drink
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is so let me just put the fork up next
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to that that's the size of the drink
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that's the size of the onion rings this
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thing is
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a good sized onion ring and i got three
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different dogs right over there you can
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see i'm sitting pretty close to where
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the line is
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and the menu itself right underneath the
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guitar
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looking back across
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just need to unwrap what i got here okay
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the first one
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is that portillo chicago style
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dog you just look at all the stuff on
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so you have
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oh
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oh much think you're supposed to eat
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those peppers
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on the hot dog itself and not by
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themselves
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my eyes are watery
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oh yeah i've missed that taste i've had
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a chicago dog in chicago which is pretty
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awesome
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that's the other one it's quite a part
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you got those peppers
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drink
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oh it's so good okay these are crunchy
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a lot more crunchy than i thought they
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were gonna be
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it's very very crunchy
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so does the mascot have a name
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the hot dog a little little dog there
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with the
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hot dogs written on the side i have a
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name
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palm parkway you have delivered the
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goods well
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portillo's delivered the ghost to palm
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road that not many even knew about until
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recently
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things are popping up around here fairly
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obvious
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don't need many clues on which dog this
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it's going to be the chili and cheese
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hot dog as i kind of roll it open there
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we got the cheese melted
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we got the chili on top of it we have
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the bread with the little
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morsels what they call sesame seeds
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right down in there
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i'm assuming those are sesame seeds you
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know what they say when you assume
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something
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make a you-know-what out of you and me
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so could be wrong on that but there are
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seeds
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nonetheless right here oh yeah this
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thing is drenched
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in chili look at
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that thing
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yes i still have one of the portillo
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dogs over there to go but this thing
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needs to end up
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in my belly sooner than later i'm trying
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to have all of that on there look at
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this
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the fertility the portillo's chili dog
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going in going in hot it's going in hot
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it's pretty it's warm lukewarm
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you know what's good when it does that
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little popping fat when you bite the dog
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a little crunch it's more than lukewarm
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it's pretty toasty
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i don't know which i like better chili
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dog or the chicago portfolio dog
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i do got to come back and get that meat
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the italian beef is what everyone
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suggests all the time
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and also the chicken sandwich i've had
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quite a few people say get the chicken
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i might have to do a return review this
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review
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big thumbs up oh yeah and the fact that
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it's in the same parking lot as white
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castle
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that's a win-win
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they will be getting my business on more
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than one occasion
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multiple occasions i'll tell you that
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right now
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maybe by that point i'll learn a dog's
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maybe he's unnamed maybe he's like
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prince
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the heart is formally known
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hot dog i still need to polish off this
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last dog
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and these onion rings i opted not to
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have the french fries
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i uh upgraded to the onion rings these
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very crunchy onion rings see if you can
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hear the crunch
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listen
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honestly maybe a little too crunchy
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maybe a step down from the crunchiness
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that they've given me
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would be perfect but they're still good
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but i think maybe just a
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tad bit too crunchy for my taste
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look at that that is a thing of beauty
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right there
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can't get to chicago and have a legit
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chicago dog now i also will mention
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i did get ketchup over here
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that is only if i so choose but you'll
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notice i haven't even touched the
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ketchup
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i got it just in case i wanted to dip
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these crunchy
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crunchy listen for the crunch
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so that was just for those you never
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want to it is frowned upon
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let me let me finish chewing first it is
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very frowned upon
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i've been told this by many people and
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it just kind of comes natural
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you don't want to put a ketchup on a
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chicago dog oh don't go
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i think i'm saying that right don't go
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to chicago and ask for ketchup on a
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chicago dog
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that is frowned upon this is a good way
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of saying they may tell you something
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other than hey that's frowned upon
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there may be some other dialogue that
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you're given there
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you want to have mustard they make it
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the correct way
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this has a mixture of onions pickle
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peppers
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a little bit of relish and the dog
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vienna style dog
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even some tomatoes on there as well
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and that first bite it does that poppy
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front
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oh yeah when you know it's good
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can you tell i'm happy right now oh
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goodness that was
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awesome i may have ate a little too fast
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didn't really
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savor it as quick but i was excited i
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down those
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that whole meal pretty quickly see the
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drive through here
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very very lengthy i'm gonna walk around
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kind of give the perspective here from
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the road they got two drive-through
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lines
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if you can see international drive is
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not far off there's two international
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drive that signage there
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has well i think official grand opening
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is the 15th
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if they still do a grand opening
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celebration or not
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but it is soft open i think it's been a
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soft open for a couple weeks
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a couple weeks now or maybe a week
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nonetheless you can't show up now get
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yourself a
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hot dog a beef burger or a salad
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if you so choose
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and that's going to do it for today
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from orlando florida home of the first
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central florida well orlando the first
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orlando
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it has arrived and with that the vlog
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is over and just to show a reference
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point the orlando eye
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now called icon orlando you can see off
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in the distance there that big ferris