By Sue Tiffin
Published June 12, 2018
Though visitors sometimes come to this area to escape from the hustle and bustle of their urban lives, there are just some aspects of city-life that are hard to leave behind and would be nice to bring along. Street meat, it turns out, is one of them.
For the past 20 years, David Houtorski has been distributing meat to food truck and street food vendors and restaurants as well as consumers through his downtown Toronto hot dog factory, Soloway’s Hot Dog Factory Outlet, which was opened by an Italian family sometime in 1927 and purchased by Houtorski’s family friend in 1996.
In 1998, Houtorski built the outlet store to distribute products from the factory. Some orders for Soloway’s products come from the Niagara region, or Kingston, but it was after some campers who frequent Algonquin Park and callers with a 705-area code were asking for delivery of Soloway’s products in this region that he started thinking of expanding the business north.
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