Shake Shack UWS
Regular readers of this space know your host is something of a burger fan. So it is no surprise that I enjoy Shake Shack in the backyard of my office by the Flatiron building.
My wife, jealous for the past year at my proximity to the Shackburger, has had shpilkes for months in anticipation of the Upper West Side Shake Shack on 77th and Columbus. The New York Sun ran a thorough update on the new location today, including this nugget:
When the decision was made to open another Shake Shack, the location of the outpost wasn't chosen from a particular comparison of neighborhoods. "Randy Garutti, who is our managing partner, committed himself fully to Shake Shack about a year and a half ago," Mr. Meyer said. "Randy happens to live two blocks away from this site...."