Sky-rocketing prices, tub-hoarding, and more from the front lines of this year’s cream cheese chaos
reported last week, the city’s bagel shops are under the threat of a cream cheese shortage. In response to the deficit, bagelries across the city are able to buy fewer tubs of cream cheese from their distributors at higher prices than ever, all while some customers, fearful of running out, are preemptively ordering more bulk cream cheese orders. Affected owners are frantic to find new methods of acquiring the goods; forcing them, in some cases, to get creative with their menu strategies.
For Bari Musacchio, the owner of Baz Bagel in Soho, the cream cheese shortage is just the latest in a series of supply chain “curveballs” during the pandemic. To secure enough cream cheese for the business — the bagel shop goes through a thousand pounds a week, and more when office catering is in full swing — she says she’s spent the last three weeks texting sales representatives and refreshing distributor websites “all day long.
Many bagel shop owners have shared that vegan, tofu cream cheese is much easier to source right now because it’s unaffected by the same dairy supply chain issues — but, at least right now, it hasn’t been selling any faster in light of the shortage. “The people who are going to order vegan cream cheese are going to continue to order it,” Bagel Bob’s Messinis says, while those who wouldn’t normally order it aren’t more interested now.
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