{"id":464868,"date":"2026-10-13T16:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T16:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/464868\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T16:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T16:08:08","slug":"texas-inn-celebrates-91st-birthday-with-91-cent-hot-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/464868\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Inn celebrates 91st birthday with 91-cent hot dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) \u2014 The Texas Inn, one of Virginia\u2019s oldest continually operating restaurants, is celebrating its 91st birthday on Tuesday by selling 91-cent hot dogs.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Inn, known as The T Room, opened in Lynchburg in 1935 and now has four locations in Lynchburg, Harrisonburg and Richmond. <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"The Texas Inn was selling 91-cent hot dogs to celebrate its 91st birthday on Oct. 13. (Dan Palm\/WSET)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6a9a623d-2b61-47e5-a894-469f7a9dee0b-9b7c061bc14240a48008b3a99bf24542.jpg\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Texas Inn was selling 91-cent hot dogs to celebrate its 91st birthday on Oct. 13. (Dan Palm\/WSET)<\/p>\n<p>There is a limit of 6 hot dogs per customer to ensure that everyone gets a chance to buy hot dogs at 1980s prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor one day a year, we like to sell a whole lot of hot dogs for next to nothing,\u201d owner Dave Saunders said in a media release. \u201cIt\u2019s our way of saying thank you to the friends and customers who have kept us going for 91 years. We\u2019ve been doing this for a long time, and it\u2019s become one of our favorite traditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"The Texas Inn was selling 91-cent hot dogs to celebrate its 91st birthday on Oct. 13. (Dan Palm\/WSET)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/30b45505-b845-4829-b369-234327c8bcba-bf545e8a75b14a3c98b25d0b3fa399c6.jpg\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Texas Inn was selling 91-cent hot dogs to celebrate its 91st birthday on Oct. 13. (Dan Palm\/WSET)<\/p>\n<p>Sanders said the annual birthday tradition is all about giving back to the customers who have supported the restaurant for generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) \u2014 The Texas Inn, one of Virginia\u2019s oldest continually operating restaurants, is celebrating its 91st&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-464868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464868","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=464868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}