Tastee Hastee
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Tastee Hastee | |
Type | Privately-held company |
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Founded | Chicago, Illinois |
Headquarters | Gladstone Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States |
Industry | Restaurants |
Products | Fast food, including Chicago-style hot dogs, Polish sausages, Italian beef sandwiches, french fries, and milkshakes |
Tastee Hastee was a hot dog stand on Milwaukee Avenue in Gladstone Park, Chicago. Unlike most Chicago-style hot dog stands, Tastee Hastee eschewed the more popular Vienna Beef products for those made by Leon's Sausage Company, giving their hot dogs less snap but more pronounced flavor. In addition to the usual Chicago-style toppings found at most other stands in the city, Tastee Hastee dogs also offered lettuce, green pepper, and cucumber. The children's menu included the "kiddie dog" with mustard only that came with a small toy. The restaurant started out during the Depression-era as a mobile cart, and eventually moved to the red and yellow building on Milwaukee Avenue. Customers would order inside and eat on picnic benches outside, though in its last years the owners built a small wraparound dining room on the side of the building. Tastee Hastee closed in the mid-1990s.