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Podcast: Corner Booth Podcast
Episode: Episode 110: Kacie Dancy with Pop's Beef
Description: Pop’s Italian Beef & Sausage (“Pop’s Beef”) has been a Chicagoland favorite for more than 45 years. The original Pop’s Beef store, located at 7153 W 127th Street in Palos Heights, IL, was opened March 24th, 1980, as a small family-run sandwich concept operation. Today, it is a successful franchisor with 17 locations.
“I was born in the business,” says Kacie Dancey, the eldest of founder Frank Radochonski’s four children. A University of Illinois graduate with a degree in finance, she worked in wine sales after college for two years before returning to her family’s restaurant as a manager. Kacie is...