CHICAGO — Portillo’s, the Chicago-style restaurant chain, which began as a small hot dog stand in the suburb of Villa Park, unleashed its vegan Garden Dog at all locations across the country Tuesday.
“The feedback we’ve gotten is we have a lot of flexitarians who love our traditional hot dogs, but sometimes don’t want to eat them,” said Portillo’s spokeswoman Sara Wirth. “We want to mimic that experience for them.”
The brand’s first plant-based hot dog was made in partnership with Field Roast, a plant-based meat and cheese company headquartered in Seattle. It’s a bigger, custom version of Field Roast’s signature stadium dog, so it’s different from what you would find in the grocery store.
