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At the center of it all, as always, is Coney Island. The Nathan\u2019s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest returns to the corner of Surf and Stillwell, where Joey Chestnut\u2014the sport\u2019s all-time leader with 17 titles and a personal-record 76 hot dogs and buns eaten in 2021\u2014is favored to eat around 70 hot dogs in 10 minutes en route to his 18th Mustard Belt. Miki Sudo, the women\u2019s world-record holder at 51 hot dogs and buns, is chasing her fifth straight championship and 12th overall.<\/p>\n

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This year\u2019s contest carries a bigger backdrop than usual. The World Cup has already reshaped New York\u2019s summer\u2014from ticket-pricing controversies to Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul underwriting a free Central Park watch party for fans priced out of MetLife Stadium\u2014and Nathan\u2019s says it\u2019s feeling the overflow. <\/p>\n

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\u201cTypically, on July 4th, we see approximately 35,000 fans come out to watch the event in person,\u201d Nathan\u2019s VP of Marketing at Nathan\u2019s Famous, Phil McCann told Fortune<\/em>. \u201cBecause of the influx of tourists with the World Cup being in town, and the Nathan\u2019s Hot Dog Eating Contest being such a bucket list event, the NYPD estimates crowds will be much larger this year.\u201d Nathan\u2019s has been meeting regularly with city agencies, including the NYPD, to plan security around the swelling audience. <\/p>\n

On the retail side, McCann said the momentum is already showing up in receipts: \u201cWe have seen an uptick in sales versus a year ago at our flagship and Coney Island boardwalk locations.\u201d That\u2019s notable given sports economists have found the World Cup\u2019s broader economic windfall for host cities is often overstated\u2014Coney Island\u2019s hot dog stand appears to be one of the rare local businesses actually capturing some of that tourist spending rather than watching it flow straight to FIFA.<\/p>\n

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Chestnut\u2019s return itself is a story. He sat out the 2024 contest entirely after signing a sponsorship deal with Impossible Foods, a plant-based rival that violated Nathan\u2019s longstanding exclusivity rules\u2014a split Major League Eating called \u201cdevastating\u201d at the time, and one that left Patrick Bertoletti to win the title in his absence. Chestnut settled back in fully last year, reclaiming the Mustard Belt with 70.5 hot dogs. He returns this year with the Impossible Foods chapter behind him, though not entirely free of controversy: he\u2019s still serving a 180-day probation sentence after pleading guilty to misdemeanor battery this spring, following an incident at an Indiana bar.<\/p>\n

Hot dog eating sees the prediction market<\/h2>\n

The other thing that\u2019s changed is who\u2019s putting money on it. Five years ago, betting on Nathan\u2019s was a novelty afterthought\u2014a niche prop tucked into a handful of sportsbooks. This year, it\u2019s booked almost everywhere. DraftKings, FanDuel and BetMGM are all running full odds boards, with Chestnut priced as high as -2500 to win and an over\/under on his hot dog total set at 70.5. Kalshi, the regulated prediction market, has its own contracts on who wins and exactly how many hot dogs the winner eats, including whether Chestnut breaks his own record of 76.<\/p>\n

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That expansion mirrors a much bigger shift already underway in American gambling. Prediction markets like Kalshi have exploded over the past year, pulling sports betting away from traditional state-regulated books and into a federally regulated gray zone\u2014Kalshi alone processed $871 million in trading volume on Super Bowl Sunday this year, and the fight over whether that activity even counts as gambling is now headed toward the Supreme Court. Novelty markets like Nathan\u2019s are riding that same wave: Americans legally bet $166.94 billion on sports in 2025, an 11% increase from 2024 and a new industry record, according to the American Gaming Association\u2014and sportsbooks and prediction platforms alike are increasingly looking to any event, however small, to keep bettors trading through the summer sports lull.<\/p>\n

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