phatj wrote:Phan In Phlorida wrote:
Incredible.
Woody wrote:are you asking why the frozen bagels are in the freezer
Warszawa wrote:Woody wrote:are you asking why the frozen bagels are in the freezer
But are they special or something?
As the largest sales of bagels came on Sunday morning, Saturday night was the busiest time at the bakery, and people of all ethnicities began to stop by the bakery on Saturday nights to purchase fresh bagels.
By the mid 1950s, the logistics of producing as many as 6,000 bagels for sale on Sunday morning, in contrast to relatively low activity the rest of the week, began to demand a solution. As a result, in 1954 Lender perfected a method of freezing the bagels, so that the labor could be spread more evenly throughout the week. At first, this was kept secret as it was felt that customers who were happily buying the bagels would reject them if they knew they had been frozen. After two years, however, the bakery accidentally delivered the frozen bagels instead of thawing them first, and the secret was revealed. Although customers were initially angry, the realization that these were the same bagels they had been satisfied with for the previous two years eventually won them over; and with the secret now revealed, the New York Bagel Bakery was free to market the frozen bagels further from New Haven, for instance to resorts in the Catskills.