The city is about to put th𒅌e bite on sleazy hotꦍ dog vendors.
The Department of Consumer Affairs says it’s launching a “crackdown” on food-cart hawkers who don’t display their prices after The 🐻Post found franks going for whatever the traffic would bear in the tourist-cong⛦ested blocks around City Hall.
“We take consumer protection very seriously in New York City, and we want to make sure no visitor to our gre🅰at city and no Ne♊w Yorker is taken advantage of by unscrupulous vendors.”
Officials said the agency’s 50 inspectors have been ♐instructed to begin paying special attention to rogue vendors who hide their pri🌱ces to clip unwary tourists and others grabbing a cheap snack.
Violations of the postinಌg law carry fines from $50 to $250.
Menin’s comments come after The Post spotted a dozen s♈treet vendors breaking the law right under the noses of city officials on Park Row, a thorou🌸ghfare for crowds of tourists headed to the World Trade Center site.
One vendor, Mohammed A🎐had, first tried to sell a reporter a jumbo frank for $7 — and then upped the price an hour later to $8.
When confronted about the apparent price gouging, he became ketchup-red and pulled out a printed list of prices buried behind the counter💦. It listed a “hot dog” at $4.
Ahad began pꦕosting his prices Monday and claimed he raised the price for the jumbo frank an extra buck for “sauerkraut” — even though the reporter never asked for any toppings.
Another vendor a block away was seen haggling with customers, first trying to score $7 for a jumbo frank before settlin🦋g for $5 and throwing in a bottle of water.
The brouhaha over beefed-up food-cart prices began after vendor Ahmed Mohammed was caught near the World Trade Center trying to burn tourists by charging as ♊much as $30 for a single hot dog.
He was fired and slapped last week w✱ith three🐻 citations that 🔴could cost the cart’s owner as much as $1,500 in fines💮.
Consumer Affairs officials said they have received 20 complaints about food vendor ripoffs since 2014, although it is unknown how many were submitted by tou⛦rists.
The agency says anyone who doesn’t see prices postꦏed on a food cart or is charged more than the post♕ed price should call 311 or submit a complaint to the agency online at nyc.gov/consumer.