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Bagels
EINSTEIN BROTHERS BAGELS
Multiple locations
It must be hard to taste-test every bagel joint in town these days. But well-chosen locations and eye-catching graphics, along with fancy-pants accessories such as black-cherry cream cheese, helped Einstein's theory of bagel-making roll away from the pack, including Bagel Bistro and Bagel Bagel, neck-and-neck at second and third respectively.
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BIG APPLE BAGELS
2570 E. Desert Inn Road
There's more than bratwurst in Wisconsin, if the Green Bay memorabilia reveals the origins of the bagelmeisters who try to confuse things with their New York-sounding name. Cappuccino and yogurt sweeten a retail visit for a place that offers wholesale prices for volume sales of their fresh-daily bagels.