Business meetings can take place any time of day, but morning and late morning meets are the most common. Many organizers have started offering food to lighten the mood and encourage amicable conversation. However, it can be a big decision to decide what exactly to serve, and it may be up to the caterer to find a solution to questions like: What kind of food can we offer? Will there be kosher options? How will the food stay hot and fresh? What if we need to move around as we discuss? In this case, the answer that resolves all of the questions above can easily be bagels! They’re the perfect portable food, and can come in a variety of flavors for a variety of people. Even the pickiest eater is bound to find something they like in the mix, and they can pick and choose from the toppings for almost unlimited variety. Bagels can work for any time of day, from breakfast to lunch and everything in between. They’re light and easy-to-eat, and won’t upset any stomachs while still remaining tasty. For a busy person who missed breakfast or a tired employee dying to get lunch, … [Read more...]
Turn a Quick Stop into a Breakfast Shop by Offering Bagels
Gas stations and corner stores see a lot of morning traffic. Whether people are grabbing coffee, filling up their tank, or grabbing a quick bite for lunch is always different, but one thing is for sure: a lot of them are skipping breakfast. An extra stop at a donut shop or a fast food place isn’t always realistic – it can be a drain on wallets as well as schedules. Why not offer them a quick, easy solution? If you want to entice people to buy more, a New Yorker Bagels display is the perfect way to convince people to grab one more thing before they head off to work. Who can deny the enticing look of a bagel in the morning? When you put the opportunity out there, more people are likely to buy and make a regularly scheduled morning stop out of it. Here are a few tips on how to get started and make the most of everyone’s mornings. After getting your display (and finding a reliable, fresh bagel wholesaler), it’s time to start promoting your new trade. From magnets to window displays, there are a lot of ways to promote yourself. Even word of mouth can go a long way in helping you … [Read more...]
Why Use a Wholesale Bagel Bakery?
If you’re planning on adding bagels to your store or restaurant inventory, considering a local bagel wholesaler could be your best bet at getting fresh bagels and routine on-time deliveries. Not all bakeries have storefronts open to the public, so you would be their primary focus and get nothing but their best and freshest stock every day. Buying wholesale makes it easier than ever to get large, bulk orders and still guarantee freshness with every shipment. Many caterers, restaurants, delis, hotels, and even grocery stores turn towards commercial bakeries for their baked goods. This means many commercial bakers will make sure to bake according to their client list, and have faster turnout for all their products. No leftovers means that you will never get a stale product, and placing a regular order means you will always get exactly what you need. Diners will usually use commercial bakeries to simplify their dessert menu. With their dessert orders filled by a wholesaler, they can focus on meal orders, and still put out good desserts in the process. Many diners usually outsource … [Read more...]
Selling the Finest Bagels at Your Deli
Delis have long been a staple of city living, and continue to remain popular across the country. Finding a good bagel supplier will set your business apart from others, enhancing your reputation! Offering a variety of bagels for breakfast, and bagel sandwiches for lunch will attract a crowd looking for an alternative to the classic deli counters. Opening a business can be a challenging, yet very rewarding experience. Follow these steps to get started on opening your own small deli. Business Plan The first step in opening any business is coming up with a business plan. Brainstorm your menu, examine the initial and monthly expenses and come up with a marketing plan. Organizing these items will expedite the rest of the process and put you on the right track. Getting Licensed There are several licenses that will need to be acquired. A business license, food permits, along with setting up an LLC and EIN for tax purposes are all essential steps when starting your business. Contacting the local Small Business Administration, Department of Health and the Secretary of State … [Read more...]
Finding the Right Wholesale Bakery for Buying Bagels in Bulk
There are many important steps to getting the perfect bagel, and every maker has their own take on the process. The important part is making sure you and your customers never experience sub-par bagels, so you can keep offering perfection with every sale. When you work with a bagel wholesaler you trust, it’s their job to make sure that you receive nothing but quality products. Here are a few ways we make sure that all of our New Yorker bagels are nothing but top-notch. Keeping an eye on the dough is the only way to make sure our bagels start off on the right foot. With a steady, even temperature, the dough will rise to perfection. If the batch gets too hot, the yeast can die, and if the temperature drops, the dough won’t rise properly. We watch our dough constantly. After the yeast has risen, it’s time to form the bagels into the donut shape that we love so much. Any bagels that are not up-to-par are discarded, making sure that our stock will stay uniform and appealing to any customer. Proofing is the next step, and it’s just as monitored as the first. Afterwards, the … [Read more...]
Choosing a Wholesale Bagel Distributor for 2017
It’s the end of the fiscal year, and time to decide which vendors you will use in 2017 for your delivered baked goods. Doughnuts, bagels, loaf bread, rolls, pastries, and more are all difficult to make in house, especially if you want to offer a large variety, so ordering from a wholesale bagel bakery can make your job much easier. Here are seven questions you should ask before hiring a wholesale bagel vendor. Are your ingredients fresh and preservative free? At New Yorker Bagels, we only use fresh ingredients with no preservatives or bromates for healthy, great tasting bagels. Are your bagels baked fresh daily? Every New Yorker Bagel is baked the day it is delivered, so it’s fresh, delicious, and chewy. In fact, we’ll even be baking right through Christmas break – we run our wholesale bagel production line 24/7/365. How long have you been in business? Our 30 years in the industry growing our company to become one of the biggest in business makes us proud – we have the history to stand behind our products. What is your philosophy? Some might think vision and goals … [Read more...]
Why You Should Turn to a Wholesale Bakery for your Fresh Bagels
There are many types of bakery operations, some specialized for a specific kind of bread or pastry product, and some that turn out a wide range of breads and pastries. Smaller shops do retail only sales; others, like New Yorker, do entirely wholesale business. Then there is the retail bakery that doesn’t actually do any of its baking in-house, but buys from wholesalers. These can offer “fresh” baked bread and pastries to their busy customers if they have a wholesaler that bakes and delivers fresh goods every morning. Finally, there’s the small bakery that offers a range of fresh baked goods that are prepared in-house, and wants to expand into new varieties. Perhaps a doughnut shop wants to cater to a more health conscious crowd, in which case stocking alternative breakfast foods would be of assistance. Bagels are one of the most popular healthy choices, but a doughnut store doesn’t have the equipment to make bagels. Setting up to make bagels the proper, old fashioned will can be expensive and time consuming, not to mention the space you’d need for new equipment and the proofing … [Read more...]
Using a Food Service Supply for Fresh Bagels
If you run a bagel shop, you are set up to turn out bagels en masse, with plenty of room for variety and volume. If, however, you want to sell bagels but they aren’t your specialty or even a major selling item among your other offerings, doing your own bagel production can be self-defeating for several reasons: Most shops not specifically set up to make bagels just don’t have room for the equipment and prep areas – let alone the dedicated boiling and oven space required to turn out authentic bagels. Speaking of equipment, bagels have a complete specialty line of necessary tools required to create, proof, boil, and bake bagels properly. That can get pricey, fast. Bagel making is time intensive, with a series of required steps that culminate in the perfect bagel. Do you really want to start getting up at 4 am every day to start your bagels? All of the expenditures that go into bagel making can be hard to pay off, especially if bagels are only a small part of your operation. Wouldn’t it be easier if the amount and types of bagels you need for your clientele just showed up … [Read more...]
Start Selling Bagels Today with New Yorker Bagels
Looking for a new product to roll out to your customers? Bagels are a proven seller that can appeal to a wide range of demographics, and when you partner with a reputable bagel bakery, the ROI for bagels can be through the roof. Not sure about selling bagels as part of your menu? Here are five reasons we’ve seen that shop-owners have hesitated to start selling bagels – and our answers for each one. How am I supposed to add bagel making into my daily schedule? You don’t have to! You can offer a full daily complement of bagels simply by placing an order with New Yorker Bagels and setting them out in your display case. No equipment or extra space or time needed – just your daily order, delivered fresh from our wholesale bakery. How will I compete with the bagel shop down the street? Chances are, their bagels aren’t New Yorker Bagels. Our bagels practically sell themselves, and you’ll quickly get a reputation for being the “better bagel” destination. Presumably you also sell other things, and can be a one stop shop for all of the morning or lunch crowd instead of just a … [Read more...]
Why Choose New Yorker Bagels as your Wholesale Bakery?
Selling bagels gives you access to a great food choices, encourages additional sales (coffee, toppings), and yields terrific word-of-mouth. However, making bagels in house can be expensive, time consuming, space limiting, and not cost-effective. When you decide to add bagels to your lineup of offerings, the trick is to find a bagel bakery you can trust to deliver top shelf product daily. People choose New Yorker Bagels for a wide variety of reasons – not the least of which is the amazing taste and texture of each fresh bagel. It’s not a surprise that we bake over half the bagels consumed by New Yorkers daily! Vendors all over the city sell our products, because of our: Process We use time honored, traditional methods for our bagel making, including hand rolling and kettle boiling for that authentic New Yorker bagel taste and texture. We’re also consistent – enough so to obtain a 97.73% certification in quality control from the SAI, one of the globe’s biggest 3rd party food processing auditors – and all of our bagels are certified Kosher. Variety We make all of the … [Read more...]