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The Bagel Shop in Mumbai is a community hub for its visitors
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The Bagel Shop in Mumbai is a community hub for its visitors
Customers love local businesses, not the clinical faces of big brands. Local businesses nurture the community and individuals. The Bagel Shop in Mumbai will be ten years old.
Two friends Kably and Matan felt drained after running Zenzi Bar, a trendy line bar. They started The Bagel Shop in Bandra. It served a mix of bagels, coffee, juices and other snacks. Founders aimed at fostering the community. They provided WiFi, which helped aspiring entrepreneurs to meet and plan the future. Writers and artists loved the place for the vibe.
As per The City Story: The bagels here were good, but soon all the draws to The Bagel Shop — the delicious bagels from the classic cream-cheese-and-lox to the slightly (very) naughty Goa Sausage, the clever juice combinations, the coffee, the crisp salads, the inconsistent carrot cake, the comfortable cane furniture with a view of Pali Hill’s passegiatta, the sight of Schabracq’s model girlfriend’s model friends — were all overshadowed by the simple fact that Kably and Schabracq’s strategy to provide WiFi had begun to attract Bandra’s (maybe even Mumbai’s) first wave of coffee shop entrepreneurs.
Build for the community and the business will grow. The Bagel Shop has remained a single location community businesses. It will stay for another 10 years. Such local institutions are the lifeline of cities and towns.