[SeekAndFind]

Seed spillage is just part of making bagels, says B&B Empire Cafe owner Alex Gormakh, who has been fined $1,650 by the city for incidental infractions like fallen sesames.


Gormakh and his son, Max, 34, have invested close to $900,000 in larger stainless steel preparation tables — in hopes of containing seed fallout — and an expensive water-filter vacuum to suck up the seeds from the floor.
“It is still not profitable, but it is close,” said Gormakh, who moved his family here from Russia in 1995 and opened his store last June.

[SeekAndFind]

Folks, remember this — THERE IS A HIGH COST OF DOING BUSINESS IN PLACES LIKE NEW YORK CITY ( what this regulatory atmosphere does for jobs in general is anyone’s guess ).

[Buckeye McFrog]

must be the bagel shop from Seinfeld where Kramer spent 13 years on strike

[spunkets]

I'm sure it was the mouse droppings that intermingled with the seed droppings that moved the inspectors to cite, not simply the presence of seeds on the floor.

"...the bagel shop was cited on Oct. 23, 2011, for "a heavy accumulation of seeds in the same area that many mouse droppings were found.""