People love Shopsin's for their own reasons

Apple executive, about owner: The way I see it, you plop down 14 dollars to listen to Kenny talk for an hour.

Fire department regular, paying check: I'd pay 24 dollars for Kenny to shut the fuck up while I'm trying to eat.

--Lower East Side

Overheard by: mhopkins
via Overheard in New York, Jun 25, 2010

Background and explanation:

• Shopsin's General Store (official site)
• Shopsin's (Wikipedia entry)
• Calvin Trillin's 2002 New Yorker profile of restaurateur Kenny Shopsin (highly recommended)
• "I Like Killing Flies" (documentary film)
• "Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin" (book)

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