Bruce Chesin worked in hospitality all his life, his wife said. He would deliver bread in the morning when he was a student at the University of Minnesota, and shortly after that, he and a friend ran disco venue The Establishment in the Foshay Tower in downtown Minneapolis, and later The Hippogriff in St. Louis Park, which is where he met Anne. She was a bartender at the busy nightclub.  The couple moved to Las Vegas for a while in the early 1980s to help Bruce Chesin’s ailing parents, and to Scotland for five years, where Bruce Chesin helped Anne Chesin’s mother with a small fishing hotel she owned. It was while in Scotland that Bruce Chesin began to work for Holiday Inn. He worked in various cities as a general hotel manager for that comp In 1999, Chesin was given the opportunity to open a stand at the Minnesota State Fair. The Chesins had just moved back to Bruce’s home state from Chicago, where Bruce fell in love with Chicago dogs — real Vienna beef hot dogs topped with brown mustard, onions, sweet relish, tomatoes, cucumbers, sport peppers, a dill pickle spear and celery salt. “He loved Chicago dogs,” Anne Chesin said. “It was a great thing, such a simple, tasty treat, that Minnesota hadn’t seen before.”  In 2002, Bruce retired from his job at Holiday Inn, and in 2006, the couple opened the Chicago Dogs stand in downtown Stillwater.