The New York food vendor who was busted for charging customers $30 for a hot dog by the World Trade Center has been fired.

NBC 4 New York discovered that Ahmed Mohammed was selling ridiculously overpriced frankfurters to some patrons from a food cart near the WTC. According to the report, Mohammed would charge some people -- particularly tourists and people with accents -- about $30 for a hot dog and a soda. At other times, he would sell the same frank and drink combination for $3. He also sold pretzels for $15.

However, Mohammed was fired after his boss saw the news report Wednesday night.

"I fired him over it yesterday after I watched the news," said Abdelalim Abdelbaky, whose father owns the food cart and vending license, to The New York Post on Thursday.

"He told me he charged the people $2 a hot dog. He lied to me," Abdelbaky said.

Abdelbaky, who is now running the food cart, said that Mohammad pocketed the extra money. He also left his family to pay off three food-vending citations.

Mohammed's hot dog scam was discovered by the Alliance for Downtown New York after fights started breaking out over his prices. Ron Wolfgang, the head security for the Alliance, said, there have been "five times since May 13 where we've observed altercations on the street over the prices being charged for hot dogs, pretzels, water, soda."

"It gives New York a bad name," Jessica Lappin of the Alliance for Downtown New York said. "To ripoff somebody, to charge them $35 for a hot dog and a pretzel, that leaves a terrible impression."

Following the report, Abdelbaky said he gave out free pretzels to customers on Thursday. He also posted the price of his hot dogs on his cart, which states that a hot dog is $2.50 and two hot dogs and a water is $3.99.