Kevin's Coffee Shop in Oceanside has undergone a transformation with a fresh name and new ownership.
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Kevin's Coffee Shop is part of a vanishing genre of tiny breakfast cafes, with its charming mismatched furniture and prices that look like they haven't changed since the late '90s. That's around the time when Kang "Kevin" Lee took over the luncheonette, located on an industrial thruway in the South Shore town of Oceanside. (It's not to be confused with Demi's Place, a similar looking "coffee shop" a couple of miles away in Island Park.)
The cash-only spot still managed to draw a crowd last week when Lee worked his final shift, announcing his retirement after 26 years at the coffee shop. But good news for the community and Long Island history buffs: The business will remain open under new owners and a new name, FAN Coffee Shop, an acronym of their children's names.
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Maria Majano, who now owns the business with her husband, Felipe Argueta, has worked her way up through the service industry for more than a decade at chains like McDonald's, Burger King and Pollo Campero. Argueta, who works as an endoscopy technician at Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital in Oceanside, origina
