Kossar's
Bagel and bialy bakery · 5+ locations · NYC
This Lower East Side bialy institution has grown to five Manhattan shops since new owners took it over in 2013, with zero outside investors funding any of it. Same 1936 recipe, still run day to day by the two people who bought it.
The Big Picture
Kossar's has been making bialys on the Lower East Side since 1936. Evan Giniger and David Zablocki bought the bakery outright in 2013 and have grown it to five Manhattan shops, all paid for out of the business and none franchised. There is little public record of its labor or environmental practices either way. The two owners answer to nobody else.
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