NYC Sandwich Shop Counter Service Is Opening Two New Restaurants | Eater NY

"Fast-casual sandwich shop Counter Service is on track to open two more locations this year: the first is coming to Noho at 15 East Fourth Street, at Lafayette Street, starting on Monday, August 25, with another set for the Upper East Side’s Lennox Hill at 1302 First Avenue, near East 70th Street, in the late fall. Expect compact, jam-packed breakfast and lunch sandwiches, including the Smokeshow with roasted chicken, smoky barbecue sauce, and jalapeños in three ways—pickled, roasted, and smoked—and the veggie Gigante with braised chard, kale, and white beans, broccoli rabe, and melted fontina, Parm, and provolone cheeses. Chipotle founder Steve Ells started this growing fast-casual chain earlier this year, a pivot of his short-lived vegan robot restaurant Kernel, in Greenwich Village." - Nadia Chaudhury