I had the beginning stages of my bi-annual physical this morning...after the good doctor (and he is a good doctor...some of the best doctor jokes I've ever heard:) was finished prodding, poking and invasively examining me, I set my Yelp for 'droid on \""healthy eating\""...the app thought I said \""hot doggies\"" and took me to Famous Uncle Al's (hey, when a computer (no matter how small that computer is) tells you do something, you had better do it:)\n\nI am trying now to figure how to rate it...3 Stars?...4 Stars?...Pi Stars? (with apologies to Brian S for the blatant theft of \""Pi Stars\"":-)\n\nI don't know...this is a hot dog joint and there are rules...and Famous Uncle Al (not his real name, BTW) breaks nearly all of the rules!\n\nLets take a look at the Rules of Hot Dog Joints, shall we:)\n\n - Crappy linoleum floors and counters, accompanied by a \""kitchen\"" in severe need of a degreasing - Not available at FUA:)\n\nI swear, I have never seen a cleaner, brighter hot dog joint in my life...you could eat off the floor (or really, pretty much any horizontal surface) in here...the place is just kept in pristine condition:)\n\n - A cook who's seen better days and a little bit of attitude from the \""help\"" - Also, sadly, unavailable at FUA:)\n\nThe little family that owns and operates this franchise greeted me at the door, asked me to sit at one of their lovely clean tables, anywhere I wanted to sit and then waited on me at that table...what a novel concept...service with a smile:)\n\n - Crappy, wobbly little tables and a dingy, torn wallpaper motif (with the optional, but ever so popular, \""No Pest Strip\"" dangling from the ceiling)? - Nothing remotely like that going on here:)\n\nFUA is open and bright, airy and nicely decorated...they have a nice big LCD TV set on ESPN, or the news or something like that...so I don't have to watch \""Lost\"" reruns on my phone while lunching solo:)\n\n - Hot Dogs and buns from the \""what we didn't sell last week\"" bin, served for your pleasure from a grease and water bath - Again, just not how they do things at FUA:)\n\nThese dogs are alright...certainly on a par with any other decent hot dog joint and better than most:)\n\nThey serve their variety of dogs in a variety of ways...if you don't see it on the menu as one of their standards, just ask:)...want a brat with mustard, celery salt, relish, red onion sauce and shredded (not melted) cheese?...they are only too happy to accommodate (and for not a lot of cash, either:)\n\n - The last rule they break is a doozy, though...hot dog joints are always little and underfunded...a hand to mouth existence for all but a fortunate few - not FUA...a public company traded under the symbol \""FDOG.OB\""...fdog?...really?...OK:)\n\n2 dogs, w/shredded cheese, and a large beverage set me back a cool $9.10 today...for a couple of very good dogs...hey, my physical was arduous...I needed the boost at lunch:)\n\nI didn't even have to stand in line for it:)