To add NY Bagel to the top of your list of places to go eat, drink, and enjoy yourself is a guaranteed way to treat friends and colleagues to a first-class breakfast, brunch, lunch or mid-afternoon meal. In a survey recently undertaken, the bagel was named as the highest-consumed baked product in North America today. In many respects, it is as staple a food as rice or noodles are in some Asian countries. America's love of bagels stems back to the 19th century, when Polish Jewish immigrants arrived in New York and brought their wonderful creation to these shores. For this reasons, the words New York and bagel are almost synonymous in many people's minds. Since then, its popularity has spread throughout the country. Indeed, over the last 20 years, the demand for bagels has risen dramatically. In fact, it is estimated that since 1995 the demand for bagels has risen by 500%.
This can be seen in part as the result of excellent fast-food bagel stores such as NY Bagel & Cafe. Providing a fast and delicious variety of bagels for breakfasts, lunches and dinners to a country that is famed for its fast food outlets, appears to be a sensible and potentially profitable step to take. The NY Bagel franchise is the top bagel franchise based in New York, with its franchises now beginning to spread across the United States. With 30 stores currently operating, and 50 more now being developed, America's love of bagels looks set to grow even more rapidly than it is currently performing – and this despite a volatile and unpredictable economy.
In the post-war America of the 1940s and 1950s, the economy was booming. The concept of the 'American Dream' was in wide and generally accepted circulation.The introduction of the New Deal, and the wealth generated by astonishing levels of industrial production, preceded an era of innovation, expansion, and optimism. And nowhere was this better reflected than in the nationwide love affair with fast-food chains. In 1994, Joe Smith, the brains behind NY Bagel & Cafe opened the first store foreseeing the wave of fast-food demand that would typify American culinary culture for decades to come. (For more on this fascinating subject, please see 'NY Bagel & Cafe' on Pinterest)
What sets bagel chains apart from the rest is that it is the healthy fast-food option. In modern America, few people would deny that the obesity problem is something that needs to be tackled head on. Fast-food culture, such as McDonald's, KFC and Burger King are often blamed for this health crisis. With delicious fast-food outlets like NY Bagel & Cafe however, the perceptions of what a fast-food store can be are beginning to change. It truly is the healthy, tasty and convenient way to get food on the go.