About the Truck
Luke started Luke's Dirty Dogs and built the recipe people drive across the county for. Gunther Botzman took it over to keep it rolling. Here is how that happened.
The OG recipe
Luke built it. The dogs earned the name.
Luke's Dirty Dogs started as one red truck and a simple idea: take a great hot dog and load it the way people actually want it. Texas with chili and onions. A Seattle with cream cheese and caramelized onions. A build-your-own you can pile a dozen toppings on.
It worked. The truck built a following at community events and pop-ups all over the Clearfield area, and that following is the reason this next chapter exists.
You want a hot dog or what?
How Gunther ended up owning a hot dog truck
Gunther Botzman is a campus pastor at Tri County Church here in Clearfield, and that is still his main calling. The truck started, of all places, with his ten year old son.
His son told him Luke's Dirty Dogs were the best hot dogs he had ever had. Gunther had eaten a lot of hot dogs in his life, so he figured he had better verify that claim himself. Turns out the kid was right. Not even close.
He told his wife that day, "if he ever sells this place, we're buying it," mostly because he did not think he could go back to life without those dogs. So he connected with Luke and started having the truck out at different events whenever he could.
Then one night, playing Call of Duty with his best friend, his friend reminded him of an old dream. At nineteen, Gunther had wanted to start a food business. He even had a whole plan written up. Life happened, like it does, and the plan got shelved. That late night conversation lit it back up.
So he reached out to Luke, thinking maybe they could partner up somehow. Luke replied, "well, we've actually been talking about selling." From there it all fell into place. The right people, the right support, a lot of encouragement, and a truck that needed someone to carry it on.
"I'm excited to carry on what Luke built, and yes, he's still around helping me and answering my hundred questions a day. I just want to be part of this community in a new way."
Same recipe. Same red truck.
The menu did not change. The dirty dogs people love, the build-your-own, the loaded fries, the cheese balls, all still made to order off the same board. Luke is still in the mix, and the goal is simple: keep serving the best hot dogs around and be good to the people who roll up.
Gunther runs it with his wife and his ten year old, the same kid with elite taste in hot dogs who got this whole thing started.
Come find out what the kid was talking about.
Catch the truck around Clearfield, or book it for your own event. Call or text 814-762-0362.