{"id":75201,"date":"2026-01-01T00:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75201\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T00:21:09","slug":"thank-you-for-incredible-support-ring-in-2026-with-penny-hot-dogs-at-iconic-lehigh-valley-shop-eat-sip-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/75201\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Thank you for incredible support&#8217;: Ring in 2026 with penny hot dogs at iconic Lehigh Valley shop | Eat, Sip, Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PALMER TWP., Pa. \u2013 Gather up a few friends \u2013 and a few cents \u2013 and bid farewell to 2025 with a tasty Lehigh Valley staple.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy\u2019s Hot Dogs, a decades-old, family-run hot dog shop, is hosting a customer appreciation day where patrons can purchase hot dogs for a penny on Wednesday, Dec. 31, at 2555 Nazareth Road in Palmer Township.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Jimmy's\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1936\" height=\"1070\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/655269d322f67.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"111\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jimmy&#8217;s Hot Dogs operates in the 25th Street Shopping Center in Palmer Township.<\/p>\n<p>                                    Ryan Kneller<\/p>\n<p>The promotion is limited to two penny hot dogs per customer (while supplies last), and additional hot dogs can be purchased at regular price.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is good for in-store orders only (no phone or online orders).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for incredible support this year and we want to close it out [with] a bang,\u201d reads an announcement on the business\u2019 Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo gather up those pennies laying around and dress warm in case there is a line out the door.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raj and Priya Muddu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/features\/eat-sip-shop\/theres-such-a-cultural-background-jimmys-hot-dogs-keeps-churning-out-the-time-honored-favorite\/article_07136014-0bfc-11ef-89a5-377eab599cde.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">purchased the landmark Easton area business<\/a>, known for its &#8220;everything&#8221; hot dog with mustard, chopped onions and a pickle spear, in 2024 from retiring owners Frank and Polyxeni Bounoutas.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Jimmy's\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/65526e3e62814.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jimmy&#8217;s Hot Dogs operates in the 25th Street Shopping Center in Palmer Township.<\/p>\n<p>                                    Ryan Kneller<\/p>\n<p>The Muddus also own and operate downtown Easton\u2019s Tandoor Grill, an authentic Indian restaurant that has been temporarily closed since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/_homepage_top_stories\/125-year-old-apartment-building-condemned-after-fire-residents-safe-dog-and-cat-rescued\/article_4100bb8e-976a-49b6-9b1f-f42d8cd556d4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a June fire damaged the Huntington Apartments<\/a> above it.<\/p>\n<p>At Jimmy\u2019s Hot Dogs, the couple operates the business alongside their daughter, Meena.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been a Jimmy&#8217;s customer like many others for the last decade and a half, ever since we moved from Jersey to Pennsylvania,&#8221; Raj told 69 News in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This one, Jimmy&#8217;s, was an opportunity that was too good to resist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Palmer shop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/features\/eat-sip-shop\/we-want-it-to-be-the-same-owners-of-iconic-lehigh-valley-hot-dog-shop\/article_68155948-8250-11ee-bd79-f3358ec48caf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">has been in operation since 1991<\/a>. However, Jimmy\u2019s actually traces it origins back to 1908, when Jimmy Makris began operating a hot dog cart in Easton before opening a hot dog stand in Phillipsburg in 1910.<\/p>\n<p>The Palmer shop, located in the 25th Street Shopping Center, is open 10 a.m. to 6:45 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PALMER TWP., Pa. \u2013 Gather up a few friends \u2013 and a few cents \u2013 and bid farewell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,38748,157,33257,2182,38747],"class_list":["post-75201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-jimmy","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-palmer","tag-palmer-township","tag-priya-muddu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}