![]() ![]() The Timmy Dog is still just as popular today. “It almost weighs like a burrito.” A root beer float and a chili cheese dog. “It’s got relish, krout, mustard, ketchup, onions, hot sauce, chili, cheese, everything on it,” says Burroughs. Much to everyone’s surprise-including Timmy’s-it was a resounding success. Thinking the “everything hotdog” would be nothing more than an inside joke, Jackie put the Timmy Dog on the menu. Everything you’ve got back there in the kitchen, throw it on there!”īurrough’s mother-in-law, Jackie, joked with Timmy that the next year they’d put the hotdog on the menu and name it after him. In the mid-90s, a customer named Timmy, who worked at the local General Electric aviation plant, came to The Root Beer Stand every day during his lunch break and said the same thing: “I’ll take a hotdog with everything on it. Some customers come so frequently that they have menu items named after them. “It’s been here all these years, so grandparents came and brought their grandkids, and now those grandkids are old enough to have their own grandkids.” A hot dog with everything on it “It’s a generational thing and we’re a locally-known summertime place,” says Eric Burroughs, who took over ownership of The Root Beer Stand from his parents-in-law last year. Add those numbers up, and one can estimate that The Root Beer Stand has sold more than one million gallons of root beer and five million hotdogs in its lifetime. Open six months of the year-mid-March through September-the restaurant serves more than 100 gallons of root beer and more than 500 hotdogs on a typical summer day. Vickersįor 62 years, locals have been coming to The Root Beer Stand to get their summertime treats. Though the town has grown substantially in the past sixty years into a mid-sized suburb, as I sit outside at the picnic benches behind the restaurant, trains whistle in the distance, harkening back to the town’s origins. When the restaurant was founded in 1957, Sharonville was a small railroad town. The Root Beer Stand is located in Sharonville, Ohio, just 25 minutes north of downtown Cincinnati. A Cincinnati Reds baseball game plays on the television above the kitchen window as popcorn pops in the background. Customers sit shoulder-to-shoulder as they sip the titular homemade beverages and eat hot dogs, burgers, chili cheese sandwiches, and ice cream. on a cloudy Wednesday, the bar of The Root Beer Stand is completely full.
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