Buffalo, New York wakes up early, and one bakery gets the credit for a good chunk of that. Sourdough bagels come out of the oven in the morning, breakfast sandwiches get built to order, and the counter stays busy from the moment the doors unlock.
The whole operation runs as a worker owned cooperative, which explains more than it sounds like it should.
Everybody behind the counter has a stake in whether you come back, and the bread being made from scratch is not a marketing decision somebody made in a meeting…