Six days in primer and one Thursday.
This is not a joke and it is not an exaggeration. It is the whole published timetable of a business people have been visiting since childhood.
Mon
Not published
Tue
Not published
Wed
Not published
Thu
Open at 6, once
Seen by a customer, written down by a customer
Fri
Not published
Sat
Not published
Sun
Not published
Asked in public
What are the hours for Craig’s?
Answered by another customer
“I was here 6:00 on a Thursday. He was open!”
Nobody official answered. That reply is, right now, the entire published schedule of this business — one cheerful sighting, by a stranger, once.
Why this is worth fixing today
Six days are genuinely unknown. Not quiet, not seasonal — unknown. Nobody has ever written them down, so this page leaves them bare rather than guessing at them.
Seven lines of text ends the guessing forever.
What would go here
Even a rough answer paints all six panels in. “Weekdays, lunchtime through the evening, weather permitting” is infinitely better than nothing — and for a truck, “weather permitting” is an honest answer that everybody understands.
Every word about this place was written by a customer.
Five separate people say some version of the same thing. These are their words, quoted as they were left in public.
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“I’ve been going to Craig’s hot dog truck for YEARS since I was a little kid.”
A customer
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“Lots of toppings and any hotdog you want”
A customer, two years in
The menu board, unpainted.
The board is the biggest thing anybody paints. Here it is bare metal, because nothing on it has ever been published.
The board
“Lots of toppings and any hotdog you want” is the entire menu as far as the internet is concerned: one sentence, written by somebody who ate here. No list of hot dogs, no toppings, no prices and no photograph of the board has ever been published, so none of those appear here.
A photograph fills this in an afternoon
One picture of the board as it stands, and this whole panel gets painted — with the real names, in the real order, at the real prices.
Until then, guessing at it would be worse than leaving it bare.
A truck, a cart or a shop?
Customers call it a truck. The business has never said so anywhere I could find, so this page attributes it to them rather than stating it.
What customers call it
“Craig’s hot dog truck.” That is a customer’s phrase, in a customer’s sentence, and it is the only description of the premises anybody has published.
What the business calls it
Nothing. There is no statement from the business about what it is or where exactly it stands. One sentence from the owner settles it permanently, and it belongs at the top of this page rather than in a stranger’s review.
Two lines of paint. Neither costs anything.
These are the two facts that would change what happens when somebody looks this business up.
A number
Any number. A mobile is fine. Right now a customer who wants to check something has no way to ask, and somebody wanting to order forty hot dogs for a Little League game has no way to arrange it.
That is not a small business being charmingly informal. That is orders walking away silently, and nobody ever finding out.
A schedule
Even a rough one. Six of these seven panels are bare for no reason other than that nobody has ever said the words out loud in public.
Both of these are free, and both of them are the owner’s to give.
Where it is.
The address is the one fact about this business that has been written down and does not change.
Yonkers, New York 10708
Turning up is currently the only way to find out whether it is open. There is no number to ring first and no schedule to check.
Listed attributes
Both of these come from a third-party listing rather than from the business, so they sit in primer too:
- Take-out
- Apple Pay accepted
Where every line on this page came from.
Nothing here was invented, and nothing here came from the business. If a fact is missing it is because it does not exist in public, not because it was left out.
From customers
The two quotations, the Thursday sighting, and the word “truck”. All written in public by people who ate here.
From a public listing
The street address, and two attributes: take-out and Apple Pay accepted. Listed by a third party, not confirmed by the business.
Deliberately absent
No hours, no phone number, no menu, no prices, no owner’s name, no star rating and no photograph — because none of them are published anywhere.
Six things only the owner can answer.
Every one of these is bare on this page because nobody outside the business knows it. Filling them in is a conversation, not a project.
- A telephone numberA mobile is fine.
- The hoursEven approximate ones.
- Truck, cart or shopOnly customers say truck.
- The hot dogs, and the toppingsA list, or a photograph of the board.
- PricesNone are published anywhere.
- Whether the owner is called CraigA customer says “he”. This page never says so.