A stone-faced immigrant chef with a thick Stalin-esque moustache, he is renowned throughout Manhattan for his soups. He demands that all customers in his restaurant meticulously follow his strict queuing, ordering, and payment policies. Failure to adhere to his demands ...brings the admonishment, "No soup for you!", whereupon the customer is refunded and denied his or her order. Some of the soups he serves are cold cucumber, wild mushroom, corn and clam chowders, jambalaya, turkey chili, lima bean, tomato noodle, mulligatawny, and crab and lobster bisques.