A restaurant in Fort Worth is celebrating the Fourth of July by giving away hundreds of free hot dogs. Curly’s Frozen Custard serves Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs, the same used at Coney Island.
Owner Bourke Harvey switched to Nathan’s Famous in 2011. He got the company’s approval to start his own eating contest to announce the hot dogs. He just had to change the rules from an all-you-can eat contest to a timed competition to see who could eat four hot dogs the fastest.
“They just said, ‘We want you to do it. We love the branding, you’ve just got to do it a different way,” Harvey says…