The nate newton breakfast sandwich4/16/2024 ![]() ![]() Tell us about The Bagel Place – what should we know? So you have to be very good and creative at not only gaining their attention but also building their trust.Īlright – so let’s talk business. One thing you forget about large city markets is the people who inhabit them have so much constant marketing thrown at them that they become very good at tuning things out. Many thought we were either a franchise, or a bagel shop that brought its product in from some distant location, rather than a family operated business making its bagels in house from scratch. Coming in, you really need to teach consumers about who you are and what you do. Primarily, we definitely under estimated both the attention we needed to devote marketing and consumer education. In general, opening a small business in a large market like Boston naturally comes with its set of hurdles. It certainly has not been a smooth road, and we did and still do encounter many obstacles through the course of daily business. Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way? We eventually settled on Newton in large part to its community orientated culture and overall proximity. Since my brother in law, Nate, family are all Boston area natives, we felt it fit perfectly with our overall mission. After a few years, we wanted to expand, but felt the local area was oversaturated with bagel bakeries (currently around 10 in the area), so we opted to look outside the state. ![]() However, we weren’t interested in simply fulfilling the communities’ bagel needs, but really wanted to provide customers with not only the highest quality product, but also customer care. So once our favorite bagel spot in town had closed its doors we desperately wanted to fill the void. Although the obsession my family has with bagels can be derived much earlier from my dad who had a bagel as his first meal in America we are originally from Lithuania. The Bagel Place originally started in Burlington, Vermont around about 2012-2013 by my dad Algis, my brother in law Nate and myself. Today we’d like to introduce you to Tauty Shalna. ![]()
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