The soup "Nazi" is an advertiser

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Originally posted by PaulBPool

However.....NY'er here, born and raised, and even for a "lifer" like me, the attitude is just too much. I've been there three times, and each time was more stressful than the last. I "get it" and haven't had a problem, but I've seen grown men reduced almost to tears by this guy. The honest assessment? The best soup I've ever had, but if you're faint of heart or think you'll be the one to "get away" with being brash/bold/funny to him, stay home!

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Originally posted by V960

But the sucker can sure make a bowl of soup...just don't ask for french bread when he thinks you should have garlic toast.

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Originally posted by V960

This guy's soup is unreal, as is his personality. He'll do well w/ this new venture if he can maintain quality. The article relating that he cut the speaker cord from the radio at the plant where the soup is now being made makes perfect sense to anyone who visited his hole in the wall restaurant.

Fairly short wait in line for soup and bread which was usually very uneventful but occasionaly someone didn't have the money ready or held up the line and his wrath was unleashed. Anger amangement classes came to mind but I had seafood bisque in mind not the chef's mental well being. Crazy comes walking hand in hand w/ genius in his case.

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Originally posted by efuery

OK, I read the "rules" and for the life of me I cannot figure out what "N" word the media are forbidden to use.

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Originally posted by Diner-Lover

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Originally posted by efuery

OK, I read the "rules" and for the life of me I cannot figure out what "N" word the media are forbidden to use.

N = Nazi as in "Soup Nazi" which was what he was called in the Seinfeld episode featuring him and his soup store.

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Soup worthy of 'Seinfeld'

BY JOAN REMINICK
STAFF WRITER

September 30, 2005

Nobody will yell "No soup for you!" if you don't have your money out or move to the extreme left at the Original Soup Man, which opened last week at the food court, next to Ranch 1, at Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City.

The concession - the first of several slated to debut within the next few months - is under the franchise ownership of Rakesh Chadha. The man behind the soups, though, is Al Yeganeh, who was immortalized on a much-quoted episode of "Seinfeld."

Yeganeh has closed his Soup Kitchen International in Manhattan and now supervises stockpots at a facility in Piscataway, N.J., where the soups are made and frozen before being sent out to local franchises.

I sampled the five available one afternoon (the menu changes daily; prices run $4.49 to $7.99) and found each deep-down delicious. My favorite was a resonant chicken chili, which just edged out the tomato-zucchini, chicken corn chowder, shrimp bisque and butternut squash soups. Still, nothing matched the transcendent mulligatawny I recalled from the Manhattan venue.

Yeganeh is expected to pop by regularly at a soon-to-open corporate-owned store on 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Next month, his soups will be sold - frozen, in 15-ounce heat-and-serve plastic pouches - at select supermarkets.

Copyright 2005 Newsday Inc.

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Originally posted by V960

I've eaten there twenty or thirty times (it was closed for the past year or so) and never seen anyone reduced to tears but have seen men, women and even small children driven from the place w/o food after waiting in line for VERY minor transgressions of the rules. "Off to the LEFT...LEFT...LEFT...HERE IS YOUR MONEY BACK...NOW LEAVE!!!!!"

The soup is that good but this is one individual I would cross the street if he was on fire just to p*** on him. Not a nice person, probably had an unhappy childhood because he has some issues w/ other humans.

But the sucker can sure make a bowl of soup...just don't ask for french bread when he thinks you should have garlic toast.

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Originally posted by Mark in Ohio

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Originally posted by V960

I've eaten there twenty or thirty times (it was closed for the past year or so) and never seen anyone reduced to tears but have seen men, women and even small children driven from the place w/o food after waiting in line for VERY minor transgressions of the rules. "Off to the LEFT...LEFT...LEFT...HERE IS YOUR MONEY BACK...NOW LEAVE!!!!!"

The soup is that good but this is one individual I would cross the street if he was on fire just to p*** on him. Not a nice person, probably had an unhappy childhood because he has some issues w/ other humans.

But the sucker can sure make a bowl of soup...just don't ask for french bread when he thinks you should have garlic toast.

How does he get away with being so rude in a city of [often assertive] individuals?

Hasn't he pissed off the wrong person yet (gang member, wise guy, or hothead), gotten smacked around the soup counter, and been dunked headfirst in a toilet or a pot of his own bisque? If he acted like that around here, someone would catch him closing up and take out his knees in the parking lot to teach him basic manners.

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Originally posted by EliseT

What if he's actually a really nice guy, with the most genius advertising gimmick ever?

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No Soup For You!

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Originally posted by Buru Buru

When I call Soup Kitchen international at his original location on 55th & 8th, there is a message that says that he will post on his website a week before reopening. I know that there has been a similar message for the last year or so, but does this mean that he is going to open eventually or that he is just messing with people?

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More soup,
less Nazi

'Seinfeld' tyrant skips opening of new shop

BY JONATHAN LEMIRE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Soup for you! And you, and you, and you.

The man who inspired the famed "Soup Nazi" on "Seinfeld" has lent his name - and his legendary recipes - to a chain of soup stores, and the first in the city opened on E. 42nd St. yesterday, drawing hordes of hungry New Yorkers.

"The soup's great, but the harsh system is different [than the show]," said Dominick Iacoviello, 27, who works at a nearby technologies firm and waited 40 minutes for soup. "I guess it's a kinder, gentler Soup Nazi."

Al Yeganeh's amazing soups and remorseless line policy at his former store on W. 55th St. were captured on the hit TV show, which put his lobster bisque - and trademark cries of "No Soup for You!" - into pop culture.

That notoriety fueled yesterday's line, which stretched to almost 100 deep at lunchtime after forming at 1 a.m., seven hours before the city's first Original Soup Man store opened near Fifth Ave.

Yeganeh, who did not show yesterday, closed his original store in 2004 to prepare for the launch of the Soup Man chain, which opened its inaugural restaurant in Princeton, N.J., last month.

Two more are planned in Manhattan - one on Trinity Place, the other in Rockefeller Center - by the end of the year, with more to follow in Brooklyn in early next year.

"He makes the best soup in the world and we want to get it to as many people as possible," said Soup Man presidentBob Bertrand, who presented a $5,000 check to Yankee great Reggie Jackson, spokesman for food charity City Harvest.

Though some potential customers on short lunch breaks bailed on the line and instead ate pizza next door, most soup nuts were thrilled with their $4.95 small cup of vegetable soup or $10.95 large bowl of crab bisque.

"Considering that it's now mass produced, I'm impressed at how good it is - it holds its own to the original store," said Bruce Horowitz, 49, a former faithful patron of Yeganeh's defunct store, as he sipped his mulligatawny.

"But knowing how much [Yeganeh] hated the Seinfeld portrayal and the attention it brought," added Horowitz, of Brooklyn, "I'm surprised he sold out."

Originally published on November 3, 2005