Kossar's has been hand-rolling bialys on the Lower East Side since 1936; its current owners, Evan Giniger and David Zablocki, bought the bakery outright in 2013 and have grown it to five self-funded Manhattan shops with no outside investors. As a small, owner-operated bakery chain, it has little public labor or environmental track record to weigh, positive or negative. Kossar's answers to the two people who bought it and still run it, not a landlord's rent roll or a private equity fund's exit timeline.