Sam’s Chili

Sam, I need some elbow room.
Your place of business sits on a giant parking lot, but your dining area is the size of a matchbox. I’d be amazed if that parking lot gets half full on the busiest day of the year. You should really reclaim some space so people are not stuffed in like sardines.
But I digress.
Sam’s Chili is a local eatery that apparently, becomes ridiculously busy around lunch time. I was lucky to get there maybe 10 minutes before the rush. When I say rush, it makes it sound like there was a stampede. To be honest it was about 4 people in line, but for as small as Sam’s is that means you’re out the door.
Despite my order simply being 2 cheese coneys, several people in front of me received their orders before. Maybe they did not get coneys, and they had to make chili from scratch or something. That’s the only thing I could think of, because it was a good 20 minutes before my name was called. Thankfully I was able to find a seat at one of the 5 or so tables in the place. Clearly they were designed for take-​out only.
If the chili was fresh, it did not taste it. It was slightly better than average, but the bun was certainly not. You could tell it was not fresh. The one saving grace of Sam’s though is the dog they use. It is in fact the only saving grace, but their dogs are absolutely delicious. Every other chili parlor should steal theirs, because they do that right.
But in the end, I can’t recommend Sam’s. The service is bad, there’s no room, the price significantly higher than other chili joints, and they only do ¼th of a coney right.