You can get more details about the whole matter here. As the lawsuit would indicate, Vienna CEO Jim Bodman is none too pleased by what he sees as Red Hot Chicago's attempts at piggy-backing on his company's reputation.
Ladany is the grandson of Vienna founder Samuel Ladany and himself once worked for Vienna.
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This type of conduct would certainly seem to violate the unspoken code of charcuterie ethics, if not federal law.Īs for any Vienna/Red Hot connection: While the two brands are in no way affiliated from a business standpoint, Red Hot Chicago founder Scott D. To start, as Grub Street Chicago notes, the 25-year-old Red Hot Chicago's tagline bills itself "a family tradition since 1893," which should send off some alarm bells for anyone who completed second-grade math. Vienna alleges that Red Hot Chicago has either ripped off its recipe or is willfully misleading customers into believing that it's affiliated with the storied Vienna brand. Vienna Beef, widely accepted to be the Windy City's best and most beloved hot dog brand (and these people know a good dog when they snap into it), is suing rival Red Hot Chicago. This one involving actual, all-beef franks. Media Platforms Design Team Not long after Brooklyn's own Anthony Weiner unleashed a media frenzy over sexts and Twitter crotch shots, Chicago has a weiner controversy of its own.
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