John Rarrick

Despite plans to open 5,000 Original Soup Man stores worldwide, celebrity stew monger Al Yeganeh--perhaps best known for inspiring the queue-rule-obsessed "Soup Nazi" character on TV's Seinfeld--apparently won't be reopening his first store on West 55th Street.

At least not in its original frothy form.

Franchise spokesman John Rarrick tells the NY Post:

"...one of the options is to turn it into a soup museum....It would be sort of an historical shrine to Al's career as a soup man."

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- Chris Shott