The Bagelboys and Bagelgirls

The two founders Martin and Rado started their business in 2007 with the bagel catering called “mybagel.ch”. But when customers started calling them “the Bagelboys”, they changed their name. The team has now grown to over 10 employees. It is a colorful bunch of lovely, motivated and loyal people who enjoy working with food and are happy to welcome our guests every day.

OUR MILESTONES

2023 NOV

New Production Site

The Corona period was over and luckily survived thanks to government aid, when things started to boom again. Business with resellers from the catering and hotel industry in particular had increased significantly. The space in the production in Oerlikon was now definitely too small and they had to look for more production space ....

2020

Zopf-Abo

Then came the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, and the focus was now on damage limitation. As the business had now grown from what was once a mini business to a small SME with 8 additional employees, creativity was needed to avoid having to make anyone redundant. In the first phase of the pandemic, other everyday ...

2018

Best of Swiss Gastro Award

Another highlight and a great satisfaction for all the hard work was winning second place in the "Best of Swiss Gastro Awards" in the "On the move" category in 2018. This was possible thanks to the immense support from the reviews ...

2016

Hunziker Areal

In May 2016, the Bagelboys moved into a new building in the Hunziker Areal in Oerlikon and opened Zurich's first NY-style bagel store. Finally, the dream of a real restaurant came true almost 10 years later! With financial support from the "Mehr als wohnen" building cooperative, a bank ...

2012

LA Bagel Machine

In 2012, at the same time as the switch to organic products, a new business area opened up with the purchase of a bagel machine from Los Angeles. It was now possible to form the bagels mechanically and thus produce much more in the same amount of time. This gave rise to the ...

2008 JUL

Piaggio Ape

Fresh money was needed and Martin and Rado founded Bagelboys GmbH together with an investor in July 2008. They moved into an old bakery on Schaffhauserstrasse in Seebach. They then worked hard to further expand the catering business and improve the quality of the ...

2008 APR

Niederdorf

Back in April 2008, the opportunity arose to realize their dream of opening a bagel store in a former kebab takeaway in a prime location in Zurich's Niederdorf district. Although they were able to make many loyal bagel fans happy, the horrendous rent could no longer be paid ...

2007 NOV

First money

It all started in November 2007: the two of them launched a catering business called "mybagel.ch". They had to start as modestly as possible, as neither of them had the money for ...

2006

Martin & Rado

Once upon a time, co-founder Martin worked for 18 months as a pastry chef in a good bakery in the USA. He smuggled the delicious recipes for brownies, carrot cakes, muffins, cupcakes and cheesecakes back home with him. Today, he uses them quite cheekily for the Bagelboys sweet pastries ...

Acting responsibly

We have always had a strong personal connection with nature. A company requires a lot of resources, which we have to use as sparingly as possible. It is important to us to keep our company's footprint as small as possible while at the same time meeting the wishes of our guests.

Healthy

We only use crisp, fresh ingredients that are produced by local farmers in harmony with nature. For us, it goes without saying that we only use the freshest ingredients. We don't use ready-made products, are sparing with salt and sugar and only use high-quality oils and fats. Healthy fast food.

ORGANIC

Our bagel sandwiches are topped with over 90% organic products from the region. We only use organic Swiss beef, organic pork and organic salmon. Our dairy products, cream cheese and almost all vegetables and fruit are also from organic farms - for the health of our guests, for the taste and out of love for nature.

SELF-MADE

We enjoy being able to make everything ourselves. Not just our bagels, but also all of our sweet pastries, salads, dips and sauces, we make everything ourselves. We love smoking our organic salmon, organic carrot salmon, organic pastrami and our organic pulled pork in our fantastic smoker.

ENERGY EFFICIENT

We also do our small part when it comes to energy consumption. Our hot water is generated using the waste heat from our cooling systems. We use modern and economical electrical appliances and both of our cars are 100% electric and run on renewable energy.

PLASTIC-FREE

Disposable packaging for our catering and for take-away in the restaurant is unfortunately unavoidable. However, all of this packaging is plastic-free. Our aperitif platters, for example, are made from 100% compostable palm leaves.