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European Homemade Sausage Shop: Old world delicacies meet Facebook
During the final days of 2009, Frank Jakubczak closed his family business in the heart of the ethnic South Side. Over 36 years, the Polish immigrant had built his European Homemade Sausage Shop on Muskego Avenue into a strong enough enterprise to raise three children and help them get good educations. But Jakubczak returned to the kitchen, European Homemade Sausage Shop has a slick website, and more than 1,300 people like it on Facebook. What happened?