Tony Packo's Cafe is a restaurant that started in the Hungarian neighborhood of Birmingham, on the east side of Toledo, Ohio, at 1902 Front Street. Starting in 1932, the restaurant became famous when it was mentioned in several M*A*S*H episodes and is noted for its signature sandwich and large collection of hot dog buns signed by celebrities. History During the Great Depression in 1932, Tony Packo used a $100 loan to open his shop, which originally sold only sandwiches and ice cream. In 1935, the Packo family purchased the current wedge-shaped (flat iron-shaped) building on the corner of Front and Consaul streets next to the Maumee River, which includes the former Consaul Tavern. Tony's signature "sausage-and-sauce sandwich" on rye was first made when he decided to add a spicy chili sauce to his sandwiches for more flavor. Eventually, his creation became known as the "Hungarian hot dog", even though no such thing had come from the Old Country. The dish quickly became popular and the cafe is now billed as "the place where man bites dog". The "hot dog" is really a Hungarian sausage called kolbász, not unlike the Polish kielbasa, about twice the diameter of a conventional hot dog, and slicing the sausage in half yields about the same amount of meat. When Tony became seriously ill in 1962, his daughter Nancy Packo Horvath took control of the business. Tony died in 1963 at the age of 55; his son Tony Jr. (Horvath's brother) joined the company in 1968 at the age of 20. The company had a long period of growth in the late 1960s under the leadership of the siblings. The Packos started in the packaged food business in 1980 after Merco Foods agreed to carry a line of pickles under the family brand. In July 2002, Horvath and her son Robin (himself a Packo's vice president) sued Tony Jr. and his son Tony Packo III for libel, breach of duty, and trying to force her out of the business. A week later, Tony Jr. and Tony III counter-sued to dissolve the business, claiming that as each family owned 50 percent of the company they were at an impasse. The families settled their dispute in October 2002 by adding an impartial third person to the company's board of directors. Tony Jr. said that the problem occurred due to having no formalized succession plan in place. Soon after