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Wing basket ($9.75 for 6 wings) comes with fries. (Karen Chaney\/Community Impact)\u201cIn Philadelphia, we don’t have all this stuff on the menu,\u201d Blaylock said. \u201cI decided to put everything in one store.\u201d<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnthony Blaylock said when he was a child growing up in west Philadelphia, he either wanted to become a corporate lawyer or own a Philly cheesesteak business.<\/p>\n
\u201cCollege didn’t work out for me, so I ended up doing this,\u201d Blaylock said. \u201cVery few people get a chance to live their dream. I thank the Lord, God Jehovah, I was able to live my dream. If I die tomorrow, I had a great life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blaylock opened Big Tony\u2019s West Philly Cheesesteaks in Allen in 2009, followed by locations in Dallas and DeSoto in 2015 and Plano in 2017.<\/p>\n
On the menu<\/p>\n
Blaylock said his top three selling menu items are their mushroom cheesesteak, Philly cheesesteak and the Philly cheesesteak with bell peppers.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn restaurants in Philadelphia, we don’t put bell peppers on cheesesteaks\u2014we use sweet peppers, cherry peppers and jalapeno peppers,\u201d Blaylock said. \u201cCustomers come in looking for bell peppers on a cheesesteak on our menu. We don\u2019t have that, but we’ll add bell peppers to it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The menu features 29 types of cheesesteaks including beef, steak, chicken, shrimp, hot pastrami, veggie and black bean cheesesteaks.<\/p>\n
The menu also boasts burgers, wings, seafood, salads and more.<\/p>\n
Wing basket ($9.75 for 6 wings) comes with fries. (Karen Chaney\/Community Impact)\u201cIn Philadelphia, we don’t have all this stuff on the menu,\u201d Blaylock said. \u201cI decided to put everything in one store.\u201d<\/p>\n
What to expect<\/p>\n
In addition to the ambiance being infused with Philadelphia-themed decor including sports memorabilia and framed pictures of the city\u2019s landmarks and celebrities, Big Tony\u2019s has bread delivered twice a week from Philadelphia-based Amoroso\u2019s.<\/a> The restaurant also serves TastyKake <\/a>products, an iconic Philadelphia pre-packaged dessert.<\/p>\n Making an impact<\/p>\n Blaylock takes his responsibilities seriously as it pertains to his teenage employees.<\/p>\n \u201cI hire kids who are 16 and 17 years old. I contact their parents, and I keep up with their grades. If their grades are bad, I cut their hours,\u201d Blaylock said. \u201cI try to motivate them and try to be a role model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Blaylock said when he was a child growing up in west Philadelphia, he either wanted to become…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[62606,62607,62608,62609,62614,62615,160,162,161,62610,62611,62612,62613],"class_list":["post-150684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-big-tonys-west-philly-cheesesteak","tag-big-tonys-west-philly-cheesesteak-allen","tag-big-tonys-west-philly-cheesesteaks-in-allen","tag-big-tonys-west-philly-cheesesteaks-near-me","tag-cheesesteaks-in-allen","tag-cheesesteaks-near-me","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-sandwiches-in-allen","tag-sandwiches-near-me","tag-wings-in-allen","tag-wings-near-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}