Grumpee's Weenie Wagon is an outdoor food stand serving hot dogs and little else located just North of Interstate 80 on Route 71 south of the Dayton Blacktop. It's next to a cornfield. Next year it may be a bean field. When you're at Grumpee's you are in rural Illinois. In most of these reviews I've located the windows in the restaurant, communicating the amount of light afforded the diner. At Grumpee's it is the clouds and the time of day that determine the brightness. Because it's only open in the summer, and the only tables are picnic, the milieu changes on the hour with the weather. Grumpee's has a vague theme everything is painted orange, all the signs and lettering are free hand, and if there is a logo it would have to be the decal on the door depicting Grumpy from the seven dwarves. I'm told the owner is a tad grumpy but I'm not evaluating owners, just hot dogs. Grumpee's Weenie Wagon and the hot dog it serves is original, independent, one of a kind. That's what gives Grumpee's its charm
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