During dinner service one evening at Crossroads restaurant Anjin, chef de cuisine Sam Edelson cranked the sound system as the Backstreet Boys began to sing. The voices of cooks and customers arose to harmonize with Nick Carter.
Soon enough, the entire restaurant was trilling the same line in whiny tones: “Tell me why!”
“It was absolutely hilarious and so ridiculous at the same time,” owner Leslie Newsam Goellner recalled recently…