The Chili Dog Stand, a San Marcos restaurant staple for the past 71 years, announced that it is closing its doors on Saturday Dec. 30.
Gabriel Garza, the current owner of the Chili Dog Stand, whose parents passed it down to him, said they were closing now so that they could go out on their “own terms.”
The stand was opened in the summer of 1952 by Dawson Wilson Tabor and Mabel Juanita Tabor. The restaurant said at the time of its creation that chili dogs were sold for just fifteen cents each or two for a quarter and eight for $1. The business was started with a bank loan of $100 in a building near the corner of South LBJ and East San Antonio Street. The stand later moved to the east side of Guadalupe Street in between East San Antonio Street and East Martin Luther King Drive and is now located at 1140 Invasion St.
