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| - I dunno. I'm hesitant to be too honest with my review because I'm excited to have a new place in the area, but my experience wasn't great. First off I thought bagels were a big part of the appeal here; they're not homemade (ok that's fine) and not particularly special. Loblaws Montreal-style are more "authentic" imo, but that's okay. What surprised me the most was the five minute monologue from the owner about why she didn't accept debit. I commented that for me, it was a disincentive to come there - feedback for a new business from a longtime neighbourhood resident and customer. Please don't lecture me, at all, but especially in a prolonged manner about your costs to start up etc etc. It's feedback. Secondly, to tell me all about the neighbourhood, which I've lived in for many, many years, and about all the businesses on st clair that only accept cash. It's factually incorrect (starving artist, a competitor maybe shouldn't be your example?) and ffs it is feedback. From a new customer. Annoying. You could just add a charge on or build it into the cost of doing business. It's 2017, there's no actual bank within a block in either direction. If you're going to serve 2 kinds of bagels and have the main attraction be $10 a shot, seems like you might want to listen to your target customer and not talk at them for over 5 minutes about how expensive it is to set up a new business. The bagel was ok. My husband liked the lox but neither of us would go out of our way to make a trip to the bank before going.
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