What saves HDK from being just another tycoon sim is the clever way the use of "hot chicks" was incorporated into the mix and the options you have in doing business.  You can be a fair and square straight shooter or you can be a literal sleazeball.  The ends justifies the means in HDK and whatever gets the job done is just fine.  That and it's fun to look at the hot chicks you can recruit as counter help.  The more successful you become the hotter the chicks get and the more adept your staff becomes at running the joint.  Ultimately you will want to have a chain of restaurants that spans three cities, making you the king of not just hot dogs, but all fast food.

The graphics are nice, with everything done in a cartoony (but not cel shaded) style, but you'll spend so much time in the menus that you'll scarcely notice a lot of the eye candy anyway.  When you are looking in your store (presumably at the gal behind the counter), everything is from an angled top-down view, as if you were watching through a security camera.

In the end, HDK has some good moments, some interesting choices to make (any of which can have various effects on your bottom line), some clever animations and some of the most beautiful babes ever to serve up a frank.  It's better than a lot of the tycoon games out there, but don't look to Hot Dog King to be the defining business sim of the year.  If you like this sort of game there are certainly worse ways to spend twenty smackers.