Daniel Dunietz has been eating bagels his whole life. “I don’t remember my first bagel because I was eating it when I was such a little kid,” said Dunietz, who is now the owner of Yetz’s, which started in Isla Vista and recently expanded into Goleta.
Originally from Chicago, when Dunietz made his way to UCSB for college, he found himself frustrated with the lack of bonafide bagels that Santa Barbara had to offer.
“I know what a good bagel is. I’m a Polish Jew. I eat bagels,” said Dunietz.
In Santa Barbara, Dunietz hadn’t found a bagel that lived up to his standards. “I was never satisfied. I’d visit family in New York and bring bagels back with me in suitcases and stuff them and freeze them, trying to get that fix. Now I make good bagels myself.”…