Tell us more about why your peers call you a sellout. Bagel boy. Because it's not like you would not actually eat the product, and you're selling something.It was just skating had been around for so long, and people coveted it as this very pure hardcore activity.
Girl by heart so I I'm going to have to tie that one okay okay croissant or Bagel what about the mixture don't they have the like like the Brant like I'm sure like some Bakery is making thatsomewhere I want I okay Uber or taxi I don't Subway got to do like the
But take it from me. Bagels don't do this job well at all, because if you live anywhere outside of New York City, they are dry and tasteless.They crumb all over your suit pants.
as it was a very symbiotic relationship. Bagels , coffee. Our real estate people kept seeing each other at various locations that were opening up.We eventually formalized that partnership and Starbucks became a 25 percent owner in Noah's. One year later, we get a serious threat.
And so I wanted to promote it as best I can. And Bagel Bites actually-- my mindset was, I'm using their marketing dollars to promote skateboarding on a bigger scale. Like I'm showing skateboarding at its best here in a commercial that's going to be seen by people who have never seen
And the threat is from the Einstein Bagel Company out of Golden, Colorado. It was a public company and it was acquiring regional bagel chains across the country. And they -- they gave us basically two options. And the first option was sell us the business.
Kind of like a? Like bagels , is that what you're talking about or English muffins? male audience member #1: I try.
And unfortunately, it does take some of that to get a business off the ground and to keep it successful. Having said that, and I've talked to other our bagels ? So you know, you never win it all.
It's something that we actually have to actively cultivate and go after. And Coffee Meets Bagel wants to be the partner in your dating journey, as far as helping you find relevant people, as well as helping you cultivate a good dating practice that will actually get you to be able to create healthy relationship.
So I guess, part two is what I'm curious about. What has Coffee Meets Bagel done, or you've done, or people in the dating industry have done, to kind of-- after you get the information out there that psychological safety is most important, how do you get people to be more open to kind of meeting people from different backgrounds or create a forum for that?
I think that probably where I got the most flak after that run of success, if you call it that, was doing the Bagel Bites endorsements in '98, '97. And that was the first time that people saw a big commercialized version of something
OK, yeah. Tell us if you know. I like this bagel place in Corktown, called the Detroit Bagel Institute.
they used to say "Bagels are for Jewish people. They love bagels ." So it was almost-- you were in the front of Nazis, and you were a child, and you're asking for a bagel . So it's a confirmation that you are a Jew.
And then I do that. It's Bagel On The Corner Deli.
Also, you made some more exciting changes lately, like an expansion. And at the bagel shop, everybody wants smoked salmon.
And then if you don't want to scoop, if you're at a business meeting, if you're here enjoying your Rainbow Bagels , just have half a bagel , a flagel, a little flat. Anything like that is a great alternative if you don't want to scoop and you're trying to watch your weight.
So enjoy. Have fun. And the Rainbow Bagel place in Brooklyn is amazing. It has been amazing to us.
And there's a restaurant there called Beautys. And they do a bagel sandwich call a Beauty. And it is. If you've ever been to Mile End, The Beauty is a bagel with lox, and cream cheese, and capers,
And he said, salmon. Lox and bagels . And I said, what's a bagel ? And I said, oh are you serious?
You have in your midbrain, hypothalamus and pituitary gland. like half a bagel in the morning, or a muffin, or something that seems reasonable, it's shooting up your blood sugar level no matter what.
And it made me appreciate-- every time you see those grain elevators, I know what it looks like on the inside. This is the Montreal Bagel Festival. And last year I went to Montreal, and it's a city that has festivals every 45 minutes.
There's another festival. No place parties harder than Montreal. And I decided Montreal Bagel -- I don't know if you know, and I hate to say this. I'm going to go ahead and say it-- is better than the New York bagel .
Lauren: It was a bagel , wasn't it?
She rolled up a bagel .
And unfortunately, it does take some of that to get a business off the ground and to keep it successful. Having said that, and I've talked to other New York bagel place.
fat-free bagels , just eat as much as you want.
So we were having bagels in the kitchen.
We were having bagels .
But asking for milk, I would say this for maybe-- I don't know if I'm right, but in Rwanda, before I came here, they used to say "Bagels are for Jewish people. They love bagels ." So it was almost-- you were in the front of Nazis, and you were a child, and you're asking for a bagel .
We're in New York. Everyone has to eat bagels . How do you eat them?
We make pretzel bagels .
I'd enjoy it and have a bagel on the sofa.
And it's just been so wonderful to see people just be able to interact outside of being represented in this two-dimensional profile that is so easy to just swipe It's not just Coffee Meets Bagel .
I do know that is a bagel brice slice.
And it was something that I wasn't changing my value system. Like I definitely still eat Bagel Bites, and they don't pay me. But-- so it wasn't something that was so outrageous to me.
You cut it like it's a bagel .
You've also got some stale bagel chips that didn't turn out very well, and somebody tripped, dropped them on the floor, and now you've got stale bagel chips that people didn't really
So can you just grab like a bagel or something?
If you wanna start on that as well, so if you noticed guys, so these potatoes here, what I've got is raw red potatoes, which I soaked in a little bit of extra virgin olive But it's totally a bagel and lox pizza.
If you wanna know how your bagel is made they'll let you behind the counter at the bakery or deli, but here there is just nothing to be learned.
We eventually formalized that partnership and Starbucks became a 25 percent owner in Noah's. One year later, we get a serious threat. And the threat is from the Einstein Bagel Company out of Golden, Colorado. It was a public company and it was acquiring regional bagel chains across the country.
That is how all the bagels come in the office.
And I do know that I say "bagels " funny.
We're all invited-- mimosas and bagels and whatever.
And so bringing a bunch of bagels to someone that just does dinner is not helpful.
plumbing repair or parenting or taxes or bagels or you know all of the things that you encounter and you kind of kind
But it's bananas and donuts and bagels and Snickers bars and coffee and a few other things.
They are in the Contemporary Jewish Museum. And they just opened a bagelry on Fillmore. Yeah. So we have kind of the old guard of Jewish cuisine and the new guard.
When I used to eat cereal or bagels in morning, which I loved, I would be tired or at like 10:30 or
this gourmet show, San Francisco, the home of every kind of fantastic ethnic cuisines of all descriptions, with one major exception -- there weren't any really fabulous bagels . So after prowling around the bowels of old New York and the lowest of the Lower Eastside, and thinking a lot about this and talking about to