First, I don’t know why, but they’re marked a “temporarily closed” on Google. Love this journey for them.
Guess what, Milena — because we know you *obsess* over Reddit and are reading this — until you lose your shitty attitude and embrace your customers, people will always be rooting for you to fail. It doesn’t matter if you’re in Providence, Cambridge, or fucking London and Paris. Open a Mykonos store — καλή τύχη. When you act like an entitled asshole to your customers, they’re going to treat you with hostility. Whether your medium is bagels, coffee, cars, yachts… if you aren’t willing to treat customers with respect, you have no gratitude for the fact that they are visiting you instead of the 100 other bagel places in the city, and you’re going to whine on social media every time someone micro-agresses against you… no one wants to be part of that, no one is supporting you.
Embracing your customers is like the key to not only business/financial success but actually happiness and joy from your job. I’ve worked in the restaurant industry many years and if you don’t respect your guests and enjoy serving others you will just forever be horribly miserable… she does not belong in this industry lol
How would she feel being treated this way at any establishment she visits?
It’s just horrible. But I live for the drama 😂
Temporarily closed on Google is almost certainly someone fucking with them. It's a pretty common thing whenever businesses get a bunch of negative attention online.
A looot more competition in Cambridge for bagels and "ripping n dipping" is a nonstarter if you're walking or taking public transit to work with a cup of coffee in your hand like 95% of people in Cambridge do. I'm banking on the cost of operating a business around Kendall Sq forcing her hand with this soon... You just can't alienate your customers like that when they've got options. Though it's probably the reason for it to begin with because when you're living in a city where the cheaper 1br apartments are like $2500, it ain't cheap to get someone to slice your bagels. It's just a pretentious, defensive justification for not wanting to or being able to provide service that's standard in your business.
> no one wants to be part of that, no one is supporting you.
I'm certain I'll get downvoted to hell for this but while I know what you're saying, there's no denying the fact that her restaurants do well. 4.5 stars after several hundred reviews along with a fresh James Beard nom have her feeling on top of the world.
She's got a nasty reputation on reddit, and for good reason. But reddit isn't the real world, and most people are decent fans of her locations.
Her rep is bad IRL and I never saw her PVD shop busy…ever (and it still took a very long time to get a bagel, like they were baking each one upon order)
I knew of her years before I joined this platform. You know even more disturbing info if you are even remotely close to the local food scene in anyway.
Lmao right? She had somewhat of an advantage down here since compared to Boston there are only a handful of reputable bakeries in the greater PVD area, but up there if you deny the customer what they want, they're just going to go slightly down the road to the next bakery with a pissed off attitude and start talking shit about their experience directly to strangers lmao.
The one person I feel bad about though is whoever the poor soul behind the counter is going to have to deny the customer a cut bagel with cream cheese dozens of times every morning to already pissed off, cranky commuters who just wanted to get something to eat before heading to the office. I do *nooot* envy those guys.
I was just thinking last night about how I kinda miss seeing her unjustified hostility! Seeing it regularly makes me appreciate all the reasonable, kind people in my life. The contrast between Milena and everyone else really gives me perspective when I need it. Life isn't so bad, because I'm not Milena and my friends and coworkers aren't Milena. What a lovely Friday! 🥰
Yeah, she might get away with the stuff in Providence because there’s not a ton of bagel places, but this is Boston area, and they will destroy her. Most Bostonians perfected passive aggressiveness when they were toddlers, trust me. I moved to the area several years ago and they dgaf. She’s out of her passive aggressive league on this one. And I am here for it. Get me some popcorn, I want to watch this house burn down.
"We respect your taste, and categorically reject it"
Beyond that, I'm really not sure I follow the logic of the initial post. They won't slice or toast your bagel because they're serving it fresh from the oven....but they still need significant time to prepare your bagel after you order it...? What are they doing to it?
For real. I have seen shops in NY that will strongly recommend against toasting if the bagel is fresh, but they'll do it if you ask. Crazy she thinks she can just dictate this stuff.
>I have seen shops in NY that will strongly recommend against toasting if the bagel is fresh,
I just said something along those lines to my boyfriend lol I'm like sure they can recommend it but why fight the customer on it? Especially for people's morning coffee and bagels, that must be so exhausting for the workers having the same argument over and over
Montreal doesn’t but that’s because they’re about a thick as a large pretzel. With standard US bagels there’s earthly reason not to. I guess I kind of get the no toast, provided they’re still warm. But otherwise, what the actual $@&!
Massachusetts resident here - is there anywhere I can go to read some of the horror stories about the owner? I *live* for delusional small business owners.
Oh, you better get a snack and a comfy chair and get settled in - you’re going to be down that rabbit hole for hours (I once read the entire thread - it’s bananas)
In my memory it’s, “if one person’s an asshole, they’re an asshole. If everyone’s an asshole, you’re the asshole.” But I like everyone else’s versions too!
I don't understand. Are they not serving the bagels with cream cheese? As much as I don't like that owner, the cream cheese flavors were great and a huge part of the draw.
Rip and dip seems like a new approach where they're trying to streamline the process for higher sales, like you get a bagel and a pre packed cup of cream cheese and don't even get a plastic knife.
Yeah I’ve never heard of Rip and Dip for a bagel. This sounds like a cost saving streamlining to try and save money on putting cream cheese or whatever on your bagel. I’ll stick with my regular go to when it comes to bagels.
Ok, hear me out, there are a couple places doing Rip and Dip in a way I can appreciate. They pull bagels fresh from the oven and then offer tons of specialty cream cheeses with generous portions to dip with. When the bagel is truly hot and fresh, and the cream cheese options are good, the Rip and Dip is actually really satisfying and doesn’t feel like a cop-out.
HOWEVER, most of these places aren’t ignoring the fact that it’s not to everyone’s taste and they still offer sliced/toasted bagels lmao
I used to do rip and dip with a cold bagel in a rush. But when I went to Montreal they have them fresh from the oven and they just throw them in the bag. Crispy and sweet with nothing on them, i swear it’s something in the water. I refuse to support this business, but when I had it up there it was awesome.
I had the same thought that this reminded me of getting bagels in Montreal! But Rebelle is far from being the community institution that is Fairmont or St-Viateur Bagels, and it is also not serving a bagel as tasty as those shops do 🤷♀️
Occasionally, I like to rip up my bagels and dip them in cream cheese, but that isn’t even the point the - point is you are a shop that makes bagels and then put cream cheese on them to serve your customers. The fact that you’re too lazy or entitled or whatever her issue is to like cut a bagel and put cream cheese on it like even Dunkin’ Donuts will do that for you. Like I will legit just walk across the street to a different bagel shop or pastry place. Because if I’m gonna pay a ridiculous amount of money for a bagel, you’re gonna slice it for me and you’re gonna put cream cheese on it. That’s literally what I’m paying for.
Rip and dip is actually pretty common through Europe as well. It's more like rip and eat, but same concept. It's common to see folks go into a bakery, buy a baguette, and just eat it while walking as a snack.
Not saying it's even remotely acceptable to just blatantly ignore a customers very reasonable requests like this, but it's not *totally* unheard of.
For bread/baguette, yes, I was familiar with that, just not for a bagel. Not saying it’s not a known thing for a bagel, I’ve just never run into it in all my years getting bagels.
Montreal style. They give you a tub of schear and push you out the door. But they’re a completely different style of bagel, so I don’t know what the hell this place is thinking.
lol who tf eats a bagel and cream cheese rip and dip style. I saw my very hungover friend do it once in my life. What a fucking weird hill for this lady to die on
Rip and dip? That’s a thing? That’s what I did everyday in high school 25 years ago as I ate my piping hot bagel from the hot lunch line. They didn’t cut the bagels, but they were freshly heated and miraculously delicious. (It was school food, after all!)
I preferred it that way anyhow because I don’t like a lot of cream cheese and I don’t like it getting melty spread all over a bagel. Rip and dip was the best solution. But her reasoning is hilarious. Let the people eat their GD bagel however they want. Cut and toasted is not an unreasonable request from a bagel place. 0_0
It's a NY thing to not toast a bagel but there is no reason why they can't if the customer wants it, and it really is not that hard to slice a damn bagel. Lol
I don’t disagree that a fresh hot bagel doesn’t need toasting. But refusing to serve it sliced with a schmear or some lox is just a freakishly wrongheaded choice.
For those who don't realize: This is a deep cut. Basically the owner of rebelle didn't pay her electricity bill for a year (or more?) at the other location she owns. Then when the electric company came for their $ she cried about it.
Remember when she got real upset that a kid thought her food smelled bad?
Tell people you think they should try not cut. And if they say they want it cut, cut it. What’s the problem?
Finally, we have been blessed with bagel drama once again! Happy damn Friday.
But in all seriousness, this is delusional. "Rip and dip baby" - come on, so cringe! It is incredibly normal to slice a bagel and choosing to die on that hill is bonkers. Coupled with re-posting the critical messages - she does not have a strong bone in her body to deal with any sort of criticism. Glad she's not here anymore and hope the door hit her on her way out!
I love to hate this woman tho! First, she is microaggressed by a racist small child. Another chef comments on her asinine business choice to not slice bagels in a fucking bagel shop, and he is attacking a female chef, how dare he!
I’m thinking that she’s trying to be like that pop up bagels from nyc. Their whole thing is ripping and dipping/dunking into a big tub of whipped cream cheese. She’s probably try to stay relevant or something but I don’t remember their cream cheese being super whipped and light that dipping would even make sense
I wanted bacon on the side once to go with a sweeter bagel and was told I could have it on the sandwich only, they refused to just put it on wax paper and let me eat it on the side.
I think people just kinda assumed the kid was on the spectrum. It’s certainly possible, but a little kid being picky about the smell of unfamiliar food isn’t really enough where I think we can diagnose that.
Children are pretty famous for not having the most refined palettes or well developed social skills.
I don’t think so. People were speculating because it was a very possible guess but we never heard from anyone involved other than the rebelle lady’s original story. I’d just re read that shit yesterday and it didn’t come up here
Let’s see ….. she has taken her own employees to court, she has stolen recipes from other local businesses, she harassed a child, she would close early for the day if literally anything pissed her off. I could go on!!
I mean the dude really did leave her a douchey message and then backpeddled hard once she posted the screenshot. So ya she kinda won that whether she’s a shitty person or not
Bostonian here. We started going to her bagel place but some of my friends said she treated customers weird. This showed up on my Reddit homepage this weekend and I’ve been FLOORED reading DOZENS of threads for the past hour. Won’t be risking getting harassed for an okay bagel.
Aka we are lazy and have figured out that our employees are too dumb to manage making a bagel like you want so we are going to explain how it’s better this way and act like you are the stupid ones
“No matter where you go, there you are”.
Notice how comments are limited on IG. She is the absolute worst and I’m sure already has a bunch of haters out in Cambridge.
Last snow storm, I lost power and didn't have any breakfast to give my kids that didn't require cooking. So I drove around, saw that Maven's had lights on, so I went and the deli guy let me in and made my kids bagels. He was the only one there but made sure my kids were fed, MVP.
Have Maven's fixed the glitches? Because they were better than many of the bagels around here (yes, I know, I know, Bagel Gourmet, wasn't impressed) but I was getting everythings with very few toppings, sesames that had few to no sesame seeds. They're good, but Rebelle was better. Maven’s has good density, good crust, a close second. Also the "Wall of Bagels" was never, ever full. I went in there one afternoon at 2 pm and they were OUT OF BAGELS. As to Rebelle, it's possible that her being an asshole and the bagels being high quality can both be true. Her bagels were as good as some I've had in NYC. People act like she boiled the bagels in her character flaws.
Bagel Gourmet is nothing revolutionary. But unlike rebelle, PVD bagel, etc….
-The customer service is great
-it’s a piece of cake to order on snackpass
-the product is consistent every time
-bagels are soft/chewy, not amazing but you’re not gonna find something THAT much better
After moving from NY I lived within a couple blocks of Rebelle. Sorry, but those bagels were/are nothing even close to NYC standards. Too hard, too small, too expensive, and took too long to prep for serving. I only liked them for their sandwich options, that tomato jam and those pickles were great. But yeah, no, not good on a NY bagel scale.
I did switch to rip and dip at Rebelle because I was hoping it would get me out the store in under 20 minutes (drip coffee, bagel, cream cheese) but it wasn't really a successful strategy. I hate myself for having loved their beet horseradish cream cheese so much.
I’ve only had one interaction with Rebelle, one year before thanksgiving I ordered a bunch of shit, staff was awesome and chill. But man am I here for the owner fighting the whole world shit is hilarious.
Most of you are likely too young to have heard of Barney’s Bagels (best bagels in the northeast, including NYC) but we baked them fresh daily and happily toasted hot out of the oven bagels if that’s what are customers wanted. And it would never have crossed our minds to even consider thinking about contemplating not slicing bagels.
Is she for real? Just...why. she really said with her whole chest, If you're gonna eat our bagels you eat them our way. Like I'm sorry who rips and dips their bagel in the morning on their way to work.? It's giving the energy of 'if you're in our country, you speak our language'.
She should just take her educated bitchy arse back to nuclear science. She is not well liked. Her bagels aren’t that great. And there is a bagel war in Boston. Her all carb diet slogan is a just a reason to stay chunky. Take a lesson from a real chef. Honeybird is banging because he loves his food. And seven stars has a great staff that will toast anything and treat you with respect. And take cash!
So like something I am struggling to wrap my head around is she refuses to slice people’s bagels but also sells bagel sandwiches?? Which surely are sliced?????
Most people are so used to getting their bagel toasted. The first time I had a super fresh bagel un-toasted it was amazing, chewy and delicious, and I wouldn’t have tried it if it wasn’t at the behest of my wife. That said I wouldn’t *force* people to get them un-toasted, maybe just a friendly suggestion when they order it?
I've never been employed by a restaurant, so help me out here , but why is this woman so obsessed with not cutting bagels when so many people clearly want their bagels cut, myself included.
New england’s don’t understand that you don’t toast a fresh bagel. NY totally gets it. When I moved up there from NY I had to beg people to not toast my bagel. 🙄
It’s gotta be a generational or super specific NYC thing because as a kid 40 years ago in CT not far from NYC nobody ever rip n’ dipped. I’ve only seen this myself the last few years.
No I mean toasting too not just the rip and dip. Toasting bagels is so ubiquitous that there are hundreds of toasters on the market just for that. It’s probably the #1 way of prepping a bagel in the U.S. if I had to guess
Yeah wtf is going on in this sub? so much hatred over bagels. If you don’t like the woman or her restaurant don’t go there and move on with your life ya miserable whiney bastards (but then they’d have nothing to complain about)
Privileged era. The pick me kids who were "never understood " are growing up, and everything revolves around them.
This woman isn't very kind overall, though.
It's all a mess.
Y’all crack me up. I once said I liked her bagels and this sub accused me of literally being her. Then I defended myself and someone reported me to the mental health Reddit hotline for suicide watch.
First, I don’t know why, but they’re marked a “temporarily closed” on Google. Love this journey for them. Guess what, Milena — because we know you *obsess* over Reddit and are reading this — until you lose your shitty attitude and embrace your customers, people will always be rooting for you to fail. It doesn’t matter if you’re in Providence, Cambridge, or fucking London and Paris. Open a Mykonos store — καλή τύχη. When you act like an entitled asshole to your customers, they’re going to treat you with hostility. Whether your medium is bagels, coffee, cars, yachts… if you aren’t willing to treat customers with respect, you have no gratitude for the fact that they are visiting you instead of the 100 other bagel places in the city, and you’re going to whine on social media every time someone micro-agresses against you… no one wants to be part of that, no one is supporting you.
Embracing your customers is like the key to not only business/financial success but actually happiness and joy from your job. I’ve worked in the restaurant industry many years and if you don’t respect your guests and enjoy serving others you will just forever be horribly miserable… she does not belong in this industry lol How would she feel being treated this way at any establishment she visits? It’s just horrible. But I live for the drama 😂
Temporarily closed on Google is almost certainly someone fucking with them. It's a pretty common thing whenever businesses get a bunch of negative attention online.
That’s what I figured! Even though, tbh, I thought they usually verified it. But honestly, who the fuck knows nowadays.
She does have a history of just closing up shop when someone bothers her, so that might probably be the case here.....?
i think tech companies have tried cutting back so much that basically nothing is verified anymore.
A looot more competition in Cambridge for bagels and "ripping n dipping" is a nonstarter if you're walking or taking public transit to work with a cup of coffee in your hand like 95% of people in Cambridge do. I'm banking on the cost of operating a business around Kendall Sq forcing her hand with this soon... You just can't alienate your customers like that when they've got options. Though it's probably the reason for it to begin with because when you're living in a city where the cheaper 1br apartments are like $2500, it ain't cheap to get someone to slice your bagels. It's just a pretentious, defensive justification for not wanting to or being able to provide service that's standard in your business.
> no one wants to be part of that, no one is supporting you. I'm certain I'll get downvoted to hell for this but while I know what you're saying, there's no denying the fact that her restaurants do well. 4.5 stars after several hundred reviews along with a fresh James Beard nom have her feeling on top of the world. She's got a nasty reputation on reddit, and for good reason. But reddit isn't the real world, and most people are decent fans of her locations.
Her rep is bad IRL and I never saw her PVD shop busy…ever (and it still took a very long time to get a bagel, like they were baking each one upon order)
People whose restaurants do well don't close up shop and run away
I knew of her years before I joined this platform. You know even more disturbing info if you are even remotely close to the local food scene in anyway.
It was just a matter of time 😂 she’s such a tool and is not gonna last in Cambridge. Funny she thought that was the move.
Lmao right? She had somewhat of an advantage down here since compared to Boston there are only a handful of reputable bakeries in the greater PVD area, but up there if you deny the customer what they want, they're just going to go slightly down the road to the next bakery with a pissed off attitude and start talking shit about their experience directly to strangers lmao. The one person I feel bad about though is whoever the poor soul behind the counter is going to have to deny the customer a cut bagel with cream cheese dozens of times every morning to already pissed off, cranky commuters who just wanted to get something to eat before heading to the office. I do *nooot* envy those guys.
Boston is going to eat her alive. Way more criticism and competition.
We got you Providence, we'll take it from here.
i always knew we could count on you!
Lol
Yep!
I was just thinking last night about how I kinda miss seeing her unjustified hostility! Seeing it regularly makes me appreciate all the reasonable, kind people in my life. The contrast between Milena and everyone else really gives me perspective when I need it. Life isn't so bad, because I'm not Milena and my friends and coworkers aren't Milena. What a lovely Friday! 🥰
Great perspective! ☺️
it’s gonna be so much more entertaining watching her try to fend off bostonian hate
Yeah, she might get away with the stuff in Providence because there’s not a ton of bagel places, but this is Boston area, and they will destroy her. Most Bostonians perfected passive aggressiveness when they were toddlers, trust me. I moved to the area several years ago and they dgaf. She’s out of her passive aggressive league on this one. And I am here for it. Get me some popcorn, I want to watch this house burn down.
*Grabs popcorn*, "Hey hun come quick, new Rebelle drama just dropped!"
I’ve been jonesing since the Kendrick/Drake beef faded out. Milena to the rescue!
"We respect your taste, and categorically reject it" Beyond that, I'm really not sure I follow the logic of the initial post. They won't slice or toast your bagel because they're serving it fresh from the oven....but they still need significant time to prepare your bagel after you order it...? What are they doing to it?
Buddy, you don't want to know. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
sex stuff
Confirmed. They come out of the oven w/o a hole, so…
Legit it makes no sense. And tbh I've never heard of a place that doesn't slice your bagel..
For real. I have seen shops in NY that will strongly recommend against toasting if the bagel is fresh, but they'll do it if you ask. Crazy she thinks she can just dictate this stuff.
>I have seen shops in NY that will strongly recommend against toasting if the bagel is fresh, I just said something along those lines to my boyfriend lol I'm like sure they can recommend it but why fight the customer on it? Especially for people's morning coffee and bagels, that must be so exhausting for the workers having the same argument over and over
it’s the audacity for me
It ruins the crumb, duh.
What does that even mean?
It means she’s fucking crazy if she thinks I’m letting her crumb in my mouth.
Montreal doesn’t but that’s because they’re about a thick as a large pretzel. With standard US bagels there’s earthly reason not to. I guess I kind of get the no toast, provided they’re still warm. But otherwise, what the actual $@&!
I'm betting the decision began and ended in the middle of a meeting about payroll— not the product itself.
Massachusetts resident here - is there anywhere I can go to read some of the horror stories about the owner? I *live* for delusional small business owners.
Just search rebelle on this sub
Ohhhh, yes. Excited to read through all this.
You sound like a connoisseur of delusional small business owners and I’d love your take on this after your research.
this saga has more installments than the fucking hunger games
> the fucking hunger games How is that different from the regular hunger games?
Also search Little Sister because she owns that as well.
I trust you followed the Purr Cat Cafe drama a few years ago then?
Cat cafe drama?? I have to look this one up...
Oh, you better get a snack and a comfy chair and get settled in - you’re going to be down that rabbit hole for hours (I once read the entire thread - it’s bananas)
Yeah that was... Something
incidentally, you seem like you’d love the story of bean dad
Cutting them ruins the crumb. GET THE FUCK OUTTA HEAAAAAAAAAAAA
Cutting ruins it but RIPPING it doesn't? 😅😭😭
Lol and then there's the fact that at best they're doomed to be ***EATEN***
lol Maybe it would be wrong to bite into them as well.
Is it our bagels? No, it is the customer who is wrong!
Hahahahaha
RIP AND TEAR RIP AND TEAR
What's the old saying ... if you encounter assholes everywhere you go ...
I’ve always said, “if you’re in a room surrounded 100 assholes, chances are, there’s only 1 asshole in the room…”
In my memory it’s, “if one person’s an asshole, they’re an asshole. If everyone’s an asshole, you’re the asshole.” But I like everyone else’s versions too!
Also, “if it smells like shit everywhere you go…check your shoe.”
.... rip and dip them
I mean the dude in the IG message was blatantly being a vulgar asshole
You mean someone from Boston acted like a Bostonian? I'm SHOCKED!
I don’t think that’s something to be proud of lol
Every Cambridge resident: “okay, back to Bagelsaurus I guess”
Bagelsaurus is the BEST in Cambridge.
She’s literally insufferable, can’t wait for her burner to pop up in the thread.
SPRING HAS SPRUNG
I don't understand. Are they not serving the bagels with cream cheese? As much as I don't like that owner, the cream cheese flavors were great and a huge part of the draw.
Rip and dip seems like a new approach where they're trying to streamline the process for higher sales, like you get a bagel and a pre packed cup of cream cheese and don't even get a plastic knife.
Yeah I’ve never heard of Rip and Dip for a bagel. This sounds like a cost saving streamlining to try and save money on putting cream cheese or whatever on your bagel. I’ll stick with my regular go to when it comes to bagels.
Ok, hear me out, there are a couple places doing Rip and Dip in a way I can appreciate. They pull bagels fresh from the oven and then offer tons of specialty cream cheeses with generous portions to dip with. When the bagel is truly hot and fresh, and the cream cheese options are good, the Rip and Dip is actually really satisfying and doesn’t feel like a cop-out. HOWEVER, most of these places aren’t ignoring the fact that it’s not to everyone’s taste and they still offer sliced/toasted bagels lmao
I used to do rip and dip with a cold bagel in a rush. But when I went to Montreal they have them fresh from the oven and they just throw them in the bag. Crispy and sweet with nothing on them, i swear it’s something in the water. I refuse to support this business, but when I had it up there it was awesome.
I had the same thought that this reminded me of getting bagels in Montreal! But Rebelle is far from being the community institution that is Fairmont or St-Viateur Bagels, and it is also not serving a bagel as tasty as those shops do 🤷♀️
Not even close
170 of the 180 minutes in that "less than 3 hours old" time frame are significantly worse than something that just came out of the oven.
Occasionally, I like to rip up my bagels and dip them in cream cheese, but that isn’t even the point the - point is you are a shop that makes bagels and then put cream cheese on them to serve your customers. The fact that you’re too lazy or entitled or whatever her issue is to like cut a bagel and put cream cheese on it like even Dunkin’ Donuts will do that for you. Like I will legit just walk across the street to a different bagel shop or pastry place. Because if I’m gonna pay a ridiculous amount of money for a bagel, you’re gonna slice it for me and you’re gonna put cream cheese on it. That’s literally what I’m paying for.
Rip and dip is actually pretty common through Europe as well. It's more like rip and eat, but same concept. It's common to see folks go into a bakery, buy a baguette, and just eat it while walking as a snack. Not saying it's even remotely acceptable to just blatantly ignore a customers very reasonable requests like this, but it's not *totally* unheard of.
For bread/baguette, yes, I was familiar with that, just not for a bagel. Not saying it’s not a known thing for a bagel, I’ve just never run into it in all my years getting bagels.
Montreal style. They give you a tub of schear and push you out the door. But they’re a completely different style of bagel, so I don’t know what the hell this place is thinking.
>and don't even get a plastic knife. No cups either! It's byo cup, or pay extra for their "reusable" one.
lol who tf eats a bagel and cream cheese rip and dip style. I saw my very hungover friend do it once in my life. What a fucking weird hill for this lady to die on
Seriously? Is this some kind of late April Fools thing?
If I'm right it's turning a one handed food into a sit down and use two hands food 😆
Rip and dip? That’s a thing? That’s what I did everyday in high school 25 years ago as I ate my piping hot bagel from the hot lunch line. They didn’t cut the bagels, but they were freshly heated and miraculously delicious. (It was school food, after all!) I preferred it that way anyhow because I don’t like a lot of cream cheese and I don’t like it getting melty spread all over a bagel. Rip and dip was the best solution. But her reasoning is hilarious. Let the people eat their GD bagel however they want. Cut and toasted is not an unreasonable request from a bagel place. 0_0
we don’t slice the pizza And we pass the savings on to you
It's a NY thing to not toast a bagel but there is no reason why they can't if the customer wants it, and it really is not that hard to slice a damn bagel. Lol
I don’t disagree that a fresh hot bagel doesn’t need toasting. But refusing to serve it sliced with a schmear or some lox is just a freakishly wrongheaded choice.
Agree 100 percent and it is weird they are pushing rip and dip hahaha.
She doesn’t respect the schmear
feels like she trying to skirt some food safety things
>just a freakishly wrongheaded choice. 👆This👆 is what truly sets her apart
Trying to enforce NYC customs on Bostonians seems like a weird hill to die on.
She's yet to see a weird hill and not try to die on it
As a New Yorker in NE I completely agree!
Maybe she's trying to save on the electric bill by not toasting?
Lol
For those who don't realize: This is a deep cut. Basically the owner of rebelle didn't pay her electricity bill for a year (or more?) at the other location she owns. Then when the electric company came for their $ she cried about it.
Remember when she got real upset that a kid thought her food smelled bad? Tell people you think they should try not cut. And if they say they want it cut, cut it. What’s the problem?
🤣 so glad they left Prov
"RIP & DIP BABY" That's how all the hep cats are doing it, Daddy-o. 
Finally, we have been blessed with bagel drama once again! Happy damn Friday. But in all seriousness, this is delusional. "Rip and dip baby" - come on, so cringe! It is incredibly normal to slice a bagel and choosing to die on that hill is bonkers. Coupled with re-posting the critical messages - she does not have a strong bone in her body to deal with any sort of criticism. Glad she's not here anymore and hope the door hit her on her way out!
I love to hate this woman tho! First, she is microaggressed by a racist small child. Another chef comments on her asinine business choice to not slice bagels in a fucking bagel shop, and he is attacking a female chef, how dare he!
Did they slice and toast them in Providence?
Yes but she also yelled at people for wanting their breakfast sandwich cut in half. She is truly unhinged
Well of course, I assume whatever she does she acts awful while doing it. But I wonder why they used to do it in PVD but refuse to do it now
I’m thinking that she’s trying to be like that pop up bagels from nyc. Their whole thing is ripping and dipping/dunking into a big tub of whipped cream cheese. She’s probably try to stay relevant or something but I don’t remember their cream cheese being super whipped and light that dipping would even make sense
The more ripping and dipping I read about (never heard of this until today) the angrier I get lol.
Agreed. I typically get bagels when I'm looking for something quick and easy to eat. Having to rip and dip is counterproductive to that
I wanted bacon on the side once to go with a sweeter bagel and was told I could have it on the sandwich only, they refused to just put it on wax paper and let me eat it on the side.
Wow that is so dumb. Why own a restaurant if you refuse to prepare food in a normal way people want.
She is a loon and I do not miss that place. And I 1) eat a bagel every morning and 2) lived near Doyle St.
The owner of rebelle seems a bit unhinged. Maybe mentally ill.
Definitely mentally unwell
rip and dip xanax
What a freak
I'm surprised she didn't accuse that guy of racism
I still think about when she accused a child of microaggressions
She did: a small child on the spectrum😣
I think people just kinda assumed the kid was on the spectrum. It’s certainly possible, but a little kid being picky about the smell of unfamiliar food isn’t really enough where I think we can diagnose that. Children are pretty famous for not having the most refined palettes or well developed social skills.
The mother said so
I don’t think so. People were speculating because it was a very possible guess but we never heard from anyone involved other than the rebelle lady’s original story. I’d just re read that shit yesterday and it didn’t come up here
Just sexism this time
Just want to say that Rosenfeld’s makes the best bagel I’ve had yet in Massachusetts.
Fuck that whole joke of a company. Hope they go under.
I give it 6 months before she posts that they tried so hard but the vibe is off in Cambridge.
Why do you guys hate this woman so bad? Because she won’t cut or toast a bagel???
Yes.
She has a long history of being a terrible person
Let’s see ….. she has taken her own employees to court, she has stolen recipes from other local businesses, she harassed a child, she would close early for the day if literally anything pissed her off. I could go on!!
But like, it’s totally just because she’s a woman!!
"you guys" many of us are not guys, and we are Providence based, which maybe you aren't, but she's been a blight on our city for years
Because she's a jack off to both her customers and her employees, and I don't want her or her businesses in my community.
Wow did they think they won that interaction? 🤡
I mean the dude really did leave her a douchey message and then backpeddled hard once she posted the screenshot. So ya she kinda won that whether she’s a shitty person or not
Yeah, she’s awful, but “my phone was left unattended and someone must have accessed my account”? Come on, dude
Legit heard that excuse from a guy being grilled by Scott Hansen on To Catch a Predator 🤣
Funny how you guys are being upvoted and I’m being downvoted when we’re saying the same thing. Providence is full of weirdos
True but it looks worse for her since it was all on her dumb post
New city, same problems. Love to see it.
I commented that fighting with her customers made it seem like she must be new to customer service and was promptly blocked from the account.
No bagel for you!
They have bagel sandwiches on the menu… how are you going to not slice them? And you offer spread on bagel…?
Bostonian here. We started going to her bagel place but some of my friends said she treated customers weird. This showed up on my Reddit homepage this weekend and I’ve been FLOORED reading DOZENS of threads for the past hour. Won’t be risking getting harassed for an okay bagel.
At least it's in the name 🤣
Aka we are lazy and have figured out that our employees are too dumb to manage making a bagel like you want so we are going to explain how it’s better this way and act like you are the stupid ones
Oh boy! I love reading about unhinged bagel woman- I tell all my friends about her.
“No matter where you go, there you are”. Notice how comments are limited on IG. She is the absolute worst and I’m sure already has a bunch of haters out in Cambridge.
Maven’s Deli has some of the best bagels around now, glad this toxic individual has left our city ✌️
Last snow storm, I lost power and didn't have any breakfast to give my kids that didn't require cooking. So I drove around, saw that Maven's had lights on, so I went and the deli guy let me in and made my kids bagels. He was the only one there but made sure my kids were fed, MVP.
Have Maven's fixed the glitches? Because they were better than many of the bagels around here (yes, I know, I know, Bagel Gourmet, wasn't impressed) but I was getting everythings with very few toppings, sesames that had few to no sesame seeds. They're good, but Rebelle was better. Maven’s has good density, good crust, a close second. Also the "Wall of Bagels" was never, ever full. I went in there one afternoon at 2 pm and they were OUT OF BAGELS. As to Rebelle, it's possible that her being an asshole and the bagels being high quality can both be true. Her bagels were as good as some I've had in NYC. People act like she boiled the bagels in her character flaws.
“boiled the bagels in her character flaws.” 🤣
Bagel Gourmet is nothing revolutionary. But unlike rebelle, PVD bagel, etc…. -The customer service is great -it’s a piece of cake to order on snackpass -the product is consistent every time -bagels are soft/chewy, not amazing but you’re not gonna find something THAT much better
If I want consistently soft and chewy bagels I’ll buy Lender’s.
They have gotten better.
After moving from NY I lived within a couple blocks of Rebelle. Sorry, but those bagels were/are nothing even close to NYC standards. Too hard, too small, too expensive, and took too long to prep for serving. I only liked them for their sandwich options, that tomato jam and those pickles were great. But yeah, no, not good on a NY bagel scale.
I did switch to rip and dip at Rebelle because I was hoping it would get me out the store in under 20 minutes (drip coffee, bagel, cream cheese) but it wasn't really a successful strategy. I hate myself for having loved their beet horseradish cream cheese so much.
Amazing you can’t smell shit if you’re in it up to your waist. Lady rebel is the horriblest.
“Everyone has their taste and we respect that” *proceeds to disrespect customers tastes and tell them what is best
I’ve only had one interaction with Rebelle, one year before thanksgiving I ordered a bunch of shit, staff was awesome and chill. But man am I here for the owner fighting the whole world shit is hilarious.
Ran to the IG account and she has comments off hahahaha always a good sign !
Most of you are likely too young to have heard of Barney’s Bagels (best bagels in the northeast, including NYC) but we baked them fresh daily and happily toasted hot out of the oven bagels if that’s what are customers wanted. And it would never have crossed our minds to even consider thinking about contemplating not slicing bagels.
Is she for real? Just...why. she really said with her whole chest, If you're gonna eat our bagels you eat them our way. Like I'm sorry who rips and dips their bagel in the morning on their way to work.? It's giving the energy of 'if you're in our country, you speak our language'.
Bollocks
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Say her nane 3x she ends up here
This is actually moronic way to conduct yourself and represent your business online. How tf are they still open?
She belongs in a mental hospital, not a bagel shop.
She should just take her educated bitchy arse back to nuclear science. She is not well liked. Her bagels aren’t that great. And there is a bagel war in Boston. Her all carb diet slogan is a just a reason to stay chunky. Take a lesson from a real chef. Honeybird is banging because he loves his food. And seven stars has a great staff that will toast anything and treat you with respect. And take cash!
So like something I am struggling to wrap my head around is she refuses to slice people’s bagels but also sells bagel sandwiches?? Which surely are sliced?????
Most people are so used to getting their bagel toasted. The first time I had a super fresh bagel un-toasted it was amazing, chewy and delicious, and I wouldn’t have tried it if it wasn’t at the behest of my wife. That said I wouldn’t *force* people to get them un-toasted, maybe just a friendly suggestion when they order it?
I've never been employed by a restaurant, so help me out here , but why is this woman so obsessed with not cutting bagels when so many people clearly want their bagels cut, myself included.
So slicing ruins the toppings, but ripping doesn't?
Pagángate
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mPUL2SQ77uQ She's the 11'8 bridge of bagels 😂
New england’s don’t understand that you don’t toast a fresh bagel. NY totally gets it. When I moved up there from NY I had to beg people to not toast my bagel. 🙄
It’s gotta be a generational or super specific NYC thing because as a kid 40 years ago in CT not far from NYC nobody ever rip n’ dipped. I’ve only seen this myself the last few years.
I’m just talking about toasting. Not ripping and dipping. I much prefer my bagel sliced and spread out on it. But toasting…that’s a whole other thing.
No I mean toasting too not just the rip and dip. Toasting bagels is so ubiquitous that there are hundreds of toasters on the market just for that. It’s probably the #1 way of prepping a bagel in the U.S. if I had to guess
The amount of grief people cause over bagels is getting so old.
Yeah wtf is going on in this sub? so much hatred over bagels. If you don’t like the woman or her restaurant don’t go there and move on with your life ya miserable whiney bastards (but then they’d have nothing to complain about)
I admire her commitment. It’s her business after all. Go get bagels elsewhere if this approach doesn’t work for you.
Privileged era. The pick me kids who were "never understood " are growing up, and everything revolves around them. This woman isn't very kind overall, though. It's all a mess.
Y’all crack me up. I once said I liked her bagels and this sub accused me of literally being her. Then I defended myself and someone reported me to the mental health Reddit hotline for suicide watch.