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The television series more than doubled business at the store, as they went from selling 300 sandwiches a day to over 800. [10] The owner of Mr. Beef, Joe Zucchero, died on March 1, 2023, [11] though the restaurant stayed open after his passing. [1] [12] [13]
Portillo's Restaurant Group, Inc. [4] is an American fast casual restaurant chain based in the Chicago area that specializes in serving Chicago-style food such as hot dogs, Maxwell Street Polish, and Italian beef. The company was founded by Dick Portillo on April 9, 1963, in Villa Park, Illinois, under the name "The Dog House".
The chain originated as the rebranding of the RoBee's House of Beef chain of Fort Wayne, Indiana, acquired by the Marriott Corporation in February 1968. However, Marriott first used the Roy Rogers Roast Beef name on conversions of the company's Junior Hot Shoppes in the Washington, D.C. area in April 1968, then the existing RoBee's stores.
Cicero is a town in Cook County, Illinois, United States, and a suburb of Chicago. As of the 2020 census , the population was 85,268, making it the 11th-most populous municipality in Illinois . [ 4 ]
However, the true origin of the sandwich is disputed. [4] The beef stand gradually grew and moved to its present location at 1079 W. Taylor Street, still in Chicago’s "Little Italy." In 1999, Chicago Franchise Systems bought the rights to Al's #1 Italian Beef Restaurants. The first Al's franchised location opened in 2001 in Tinley Park, Illinois.
Michael Sarno (born January 7, 1958) is an American mobster who has been identified as the alleged, current leader of the Cicero street crew in the Chicago Outfit criminal organization. On February 8, 2012, Sarno was sentenced to 25 years in prison on racketeering charges.
The horseshoe is an open-faced sandwich originating in Springfield, Illinois, United States. [1] [2] [3] It consists of thick-sliced toasted bread (often Texas toast), a hamburger patty or other choice of meat, French fries, and cheese sauce. While hamburger has become the most common meat on a horseshoe, the original meat was ham. [4]