A FOOD van is inviting people to see if they are top dog with an eating competition.

Sarah Jane’s Diner van, which is usually situated opposite the Costa Coffee on South Street will be holding the event to raise money for the Kingfisher Ward at Dorset County Hospital.

To raise money, the diner will be hosting a hot dog eating competition over the Easter weekend.

The event is on Saturday, March 26 at 2pm beside the old town pump on South Street.

Sarah Jane Wise, who runs the van and is putting on the event said she just wanted to do something to help out after being inspired by junior doctors during recent strikes.

She said: “We saw the junior doctors come through and I was just having a chat with them. It was when they had the strikes and we thought about doing some form of competition to try and raise funds for them.”

People who enter the competition will have the chance to see how many hot dogs they can eat within the five minute time limit and will have the chance to win a prize and also the title of hot dog eating champion 2016.

Sarah Jane said that after some thinking it was decided that hot dogs were the best option.

She said: “So we decided to do a competition. We discussed an eating competition, we thought burgers would be difficult so we thought everyone likes hot dogs and it should be a bit easier.”

All proceeds from the competition will go to charity which costs £2 to enter.

People can sign up at the van with all hot dogs cooked and supplied there as well.

Sarah Jane said that as well as raising money for charity she thought it would be a good event to hold for the South Street market.