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Boichik Bagels Builds Up Business With Help From a Cobot

Apex Motion Control’s Baker-Bot does the heavy end-of-line lifting for Boichik Bagels, saving labor while increasing efficiency.

Bagel Robot Boichik
Boichik Bagels’ new production line puts 24 bagels on a board every 7.5 seconds, and its Baker-Bot takes those boards and continuously loads them onto speed racks, allowing employees to work elsewhere in the facility.
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When Emily Winston’s favorite childhood bagel shop in New York City closed in 2012—the Upper West Side location of H&H Bagels—she was inspired to carry on their legacy of authentic New York-style bagels in her new home on the other side of the country in Berkeley, Calif.

“I grew up eating excellent bagels, and moved out here and the bagels were not as good,” says Winston. “I was so sad that I would never be able to eat my favorite bagel again. But I thought, maybe I could figure out how to make [that bagel] for myself. So, I started experimenting based on looking at recipes, and Googling how to make bagels with no professional baking experience or cooking background.”

Sesame Bagels Boichik BerkeleyBoichik Bagels currently produces 8,000 bagels daily, while Founder & CEO Emily Winston says their goal is to produce 50,000 bagels each day as business continues to grow.Apex Motion ControlWinston—a New Jersey native who has a background in mechanical engineering—kept trying to craft her perfect bagel at home, and after five years, “I had an awesome bagel and friends told me I should sell them,” she says. “So, I did a few pop-ups around town and they were a huge hit. After that, I did a lot of soul searching and put everything on the line to open a real bagel shop.”

Winston’s DIY bagel journey became Boichik Bagels, which opened a retail shop in Berkeley in 2019, and another location in Palo Alto, Calif., in 2022. Between those dates, the pandemic hit, which gave Winston an opportunity to explore wholesale and delivery opportunities with grocery stores and other offsite outlets, which proved very successful. This sparked an idea for a Boichik-owned central production facility in Berkeley, where all dough for Boichik bagels would be produced in volume, then formed and proofed.

“Making the dough correctly is the trickiest part,” explains Winston, Boichik’s founder & CEO. “I really wanted to make the dough in one central location, and then send it out to our stores to have it baked fresh onsite.”

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