peter alexander has the details. >>> excuse me, i think you forgot my bread. >> bread $2 extra. >> $2> what? >> no soup for you. >> reporter: for the last six years there's been no soup for anyone, not since the inspiration behind that unforgettable "seinfeld" closed up shop at his iconic store. >> gazpacho, please. spanish. >> adios. >> reporter: but now the original soup man who has long blind the soup nazi nickname is an insult is back. they had a deejay, dancers, fine, one dancer. >> soup's on, right? >> reporter: a yankee slugger and a television legend. not that one. >> do you have your money ready? >> i have my money ready. >> reporter: of course nothing says cool and refreshing on a sweltering new york summer day like a hot, steaming bowl of turkey chili. >> bread? beautiful. >> you're pushing your luck, little man. >> reporter: and apparently we were pushing our luck to think that the man behind the soup would show up to his own reopening. he departmeidn't. >> chickenvegetables. >> reporter: no vegetables? no soup for you. lining up from norway, egypt, even as far away as new