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Jim Dandy

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Vending machine label for Jim Dandy's Hot Dog Dinner.
Jim Dandy branded hot dogs.

Jim Dandy is a human business enterprise, a franchise of restaurants that began before 2524. Jim Dandy restaurants contain food counters and booths where food is served to customers. Jim Dandy serves breakfast, coffee, and other foods and refreshments.[1]

History

A Jim Dandy restaurant in the city of Casbah, Tribute in the Epsilon Eridani system, was destroyed during a disastrous hostage situation during Operation: TREBUCHET in 2524. Two squads of UNSC Marines, led by Staff Sergeants Avery Johnson and Nolan Byrne, were neutralizing Insurrectionist bomb-making facilities when the UNSC Bum Rush detected a truck full of Insurrectionist bombs with its ARGUS equipment. The teams flew to the restaurant on AV-14 Hornet VTOLs, and Johnson was successful in killing one confirmed Insurrectionist leader using an M99 Special Application Rifle fired from the Hornet, but when Byrne's team entered the restaurant, a female Insurrectionist was discovered. When they tried to apprehend her, she took a child hostage. In the chaos that followed, the bombs were detonated,[2] killing the woman, three Marines, and 38 civilians.[3]

A Jim Dandy was also present in the city of Mount Haven on an unspecified UNSC colony in 2552.[4]

Jim Dandy brand hot dogs were served aboard some UNSC vessels in their food vending machines, most notably the Halcyon-class cruiser Pillar of Autumn as of 2552.[5]

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Sources

  1. ^ Halo: Contact Harvest, page 16
  2. ^ Halo: Contact Harvest, page 27
  3. ^ Halo: Contact Harvest, page 86
  4. ^ Halo: Evolutions - Dirt
  5. ^ Halo: Campaign Evolved, campaign level The Pillar of Autumn