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“The Vallejo store has familiar faces from Vallejo show up looking for dogs early on.
its own personality, Turns out, a lot of the weekend regulars at the Vallejo Sac’s
and it’s going to take work in Napa during the week, and apparently word spreads
some time for the quickly amongst hot dog lovers.
Napa store to evolve “It’s been really the social media and the word of mouth
into the Napa person- is what we attribute to our success from the first month,”
ality. That’s just a work Maichel said. “It has really been overwhelming how many
in progress,” Maichel people showed up to try our hot dog in the first month.”
said. “I don’t want to Maichel’s mother used to work at Sac’s too, and when his
just throw a bunch of “Uncle Frank” was ready to retire and close the business,
things on the wall right Maichel stepped up and took it over because he couldn’t bear
away.” the thought of one of his childhood favorite’s shutting down.
Sac’s has become well known to the people of Vallejo, for their
chili as much as their hot dogs. It was originally founded by a
longtime, respected resident named Frank “Sac” Saccomano,
who passed the torch down to current owner Maichel.
Saccomano was known to Maichel as “Uncle Frank,” and
Maichel remembers much of his childhood being centered
around the business that he now owns.
“The remarkable thing is how so many things have changed
in our community and yet here Sac’s is still serving the exact
same menu, and being successful,” Maichel said. “It’s a testi-
mony to that old saying, ‘If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.’”
Since the Napa business has opened locals have taken notice
and Maichel said that the new location has been kept very
busy. They were surprised at first, though, to see a lot of

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