Allison Allred pulls a tray of bagels that are ready to serve at Rich Spirit Bagels in Wheat Ridge, CO, March 22, 2024. Bakery Four’s pastries, bread and bagels have been in high demand ever since owner Shawn Bergin started baking out of his basement in 2019.even moved from its tiny, 350-square-foot space in the Highlands to a larger 3,000-square-foot space on Tennyson Street in 2022 to keep up with its two-hour-long lines.
“Now we’re making around 800 bagels, including for walk-ins, and pre-orders usually sell out by the night before, but we have the ability to make as many as we need to,” Bergin said. “We just want to make sure we’re not creating waste.”Rich Spirit Bagels is selling plain, salted, poppyseed, salted sesame and everything bagels for $2.50 a pop, $15 for half a dozen or $28 for a dozen. You can get a bagel with cream cheese for $5 or buy an 8 oz.
Rich Spirit Bagels, named after Bergin’s favorite Kendrick Lamar song, doesn’t sell any typical egg, bacon and cheese bagel sandwiches “because we don’t have the infrastructure for it,” Bergin said. The 1,100-square-foot shop does offer freshly sliced lox, and Bergin plans to eventually expand the menu to include open-faced sandwiches with fresh heirloom tomatoes and produce from the local farmers markets.
He and his wife moved from New York to Denver in 2019 and never settled on a go-to bagel spot in town. But they don’t consider Rich Spirit Bagels a strictly New York-style bagel. “I always like the saying that if it were the water in New York that made the bagels special, everyone would have good bagels,” Bergin said.
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