A hot dog stand is a food

Food

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 business stand that sells hot dog

Hot dog

A hot dog is a sausage served in a sliced bun. It is very often garnished with mustard, ketchup, onions, mayonnaise, relish and/or sauerkraut.-History:...

s, usually from an external counter on a public thoroughfare such as a road

Road

A road is a thoroughfare, route, or way on land between two places, which typically has been paved or otherwise improved to allow travel by some conveyance, including a horse, cart, or motor vehicle. Roads consist of one, or sometimes two, roadways each with one or more lanes and also any...

, street

Street

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, ballpark, mall

Shopping mall

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, or food court

Food court

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Similar businesses include hot dog wagons or carts, which are portable hand carts with a boiler for cooking the hot dogs and keeping them hot, and hot dog trucks, which are motor vehicles that are set up on a road side location, and often include a complete kitchen for storage and preparation.

These businesses (particularly the mobile, cart kind) are often found in sports stadium

Sports Stadium

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s, alongside non-limited access roads, or on the streets of major American cities, such as New York City

New York City

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, Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, and Chicago

Chicago

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. According to a report, some hot dog stands are paying up to $80,000 in rents for prime locations in Manhattan, NY.

In popular culture

There is a computer game by Sunburst Communications named Hot Dog Stand. In it, the player attempts to operate a hot dog stand at a sports arena, usually failing miserably at this numerically-intensive task.

"Hot Dog Stand" was the name of a particularly well-remembered and gaudy color scheme for the Windows 3.1

Windows 3.1x

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operating system that used vivid red and yellow in combination with white and black reminiscent of a hot dog vendor's cart.

In the USA, hot dog carts are also referred as hot dog stand. However, the hot dog stand is normally a semi-permanent structure whereas the hot dog cart is a temporary structure. The health departments use different codes for hot dog stands.