The Story of How One Man Ate a Donut and It Changed His Life. Forever.

[Sky]

Let me tell you, if this takes off, you're going to have many greatful american expat fans in your neck of the woods f13'ers looking for a job.

Srsly, though, good for you, photek! I wish you much success!

[Mosesandstick]

Any chance of getting bagels with that awesome salmon paste-y stuff you have over there?

[schild]

God I kinda want to be there for the grand opening. As a jew, it's like an obligation.

[Segoris]

Good luck on this Photek, hopefully it goes well

God I kinda want to be there for the grand opening. As a jew, it's like an obligation.

I thought the newsletter said they had group travel rates for bagel shop openings, no?

[Teleku]

I have several friends in Norway, I'll command them to go this place once it opens up.  Just post the info when its ready ;).

Are you getting all the donuts second hand or have you tried to make any yourself?

[photek]

Wow, what response, thanks all! I got this great british chef and baker called Sean Hastings working with me on the bagels, so far those I've aten and made are tuna bagels, various fishies (yes, salmon and they are my favourites) to keep it Norwegian as well as original, and other default type bagels with roast beef etcetra. Now the specials one we have made are with various BBQ meat which are absolutely delish and I think they will be very popular. Going to have product testing on the 20th of April where several people are invited to give us feedback and such on our various bagels, bagel sandwiches and smoothies. As we went "healthy choice" we have some fun facts on our menys, both at the place and the booklets with nutrition facts.

Im currently designing the place and have several designs based on the size of the place ranging from 130m2 to 250m2, I don't want it too small (tight coffee house with people stacked) or too big (McDonalds), hope I can post some pics soon. Will at least take quite some pictures from the tasting night and will update this thread.

The donuts will be made second hand yes and delivered to us fresh, those who are making them are making them "Dunkin Donut" style, luckily they are located here in Norway. They deliver to various places in Oslo and Bergen (larger towns here in Norway) and now will deliver to us. The juices are made out of fresh fruit on the spot and we have a menu with products or people can combine their own juices as they wish. Same goes for the bagel sandwiches, so all is delivered fresh. We will have some premade in boxes which we make each morning for people who are in a hurry (the most popular and default ones), otherwise they are made on order and people will have a large choice from our menu or also mix their own as they wish.

If there is some F13 meeting going on somewhere I'll gladly send you over some bagels once I'm up and running!

[Bunk]

Congrats man, best of luck. You are making me drool with all this talk of salmon and bagels.

The king of "bagel sandwiches" around here is smoked salmon (lox) and creamcheese with onions (preferably red) and capers.

[NowhereMan]

Best of luck Photek. If anything carries me to Norway in the near future I'll make sure to try and pay your place a visit!

[Lantyssa]

This is awesome.  If I ever have the opportunity to taste one of your bagels, I'll risk the upset tummy and chow down!  (From celiac.  I have no worries about them not being delish.)

[schild]

Photek, I would move to Norway to work in your bagel shop.

I am not kidding.

[Segoris]

It may not be the best in the world, but this store is great for the Chicago area and does really well. That website will show a few other recipe options that you may not have thought of, that may go well where you are (lox/salmon cream cheese, asiago bagels, pizza/tomazzo bagels, apple cinnamon oat, etc). Also, they have a day old bagel sale, bagel chips from old bagels (they also use the bagel chips to give as an option in place of crackers for their soup), and on Wednesday they do baker's dozen for half price.

And now that I think about it, I want a turkey club w/ ranch on an asiago bagel.

[Signe]

Good luck!  And take Schild up on his offer.  There aren't enough Jewegians in the world!

[schild]

You know, I think Sweden and Norway are on the short list for places I wouldn't mind shacking up with a native girl.

[Teleku]

Norway would be perfect for you.  According to my friends, once you make it in, you can just lay around and live off crazy welfare without actually working anywhere 

[Xuri]

Shh! People aren't supposed to know that until they're actually here.

EDIT: Also, well done on your endeavor with the donut/bagel-thingy so far, photek! If only your shop were to be located in Oslo, I'd come visit and you could demand that I hand over all my gems and jewels and I'd refuse and we'd fight and eventually it'd be a draw because, y'know, you could never kick my ass anyway. And then I'd buy a bagel/donut/smoothie.

[Sky]

I'm ready for the f13 invasion of Swedway. Back to the land of my people, before they got around to raping Irish lasses.

I'd have to convince my Irish lass, though...

[Yoru]

Mm. I can catch a fairly cheap flight to Bergen from here. Perhaps we should have an F13 Extreeeeeeme North meetup at Photek's bagel joint later this year.

[Sky]

Oh, I meant move there and get on welfare. I can't afford to fly there and actually come back.

[schild]

I think we deserve an update, yo.

[Lantyssa]

Maybe he's busy debating whether to serve peanut donuts or not.  (Yes, an update would be grand.)

[Oban]

http://www.copsdoughnuts.com/

 

[MellowYella]

Krispy Kreme is the bomb, plz don't hate on their glazed! Though i haven't tried these Horton Doughnuts, my family hails from Winston Salem NC there home of Krispy Kreme and I have had them since I was like 3 or so (i'm 32). 

Opening a new Doughnut franchise can be rough especially in a country that doesn't have much in the way of demand for your product, but then again you can create a demand and be the progenitor of the next best thing in Norway!

  Hire me!

[Teleku]

OK, so I'm going to Norway at the end of the month for a few days.  Photek, if your actually still alive, post on the condition of your shop and where I can find it :p.  If you actually have it up and running, I'd like to run by.

In other news, somebody give me some ideas on things to see in Norway.  I'm unfortunately only going to be there for 4 days, and one of them is going to be dedicated to a wedding and drinking, so it'll have to be things easy to get to from the area of Oslo (I'm not staying in Oslo, but some town not to far from it I think). 

[tazelbain]

I hate KK.  Luck for me KK is now the standard and I don't eat doughnuts any more.

[Mosesandstick]

Probably seems a bit obvious, but go to the fjords. And find some time to fish. I used to live in Stavanger and remember it being quite pretty at times.

[Azazel]

Did photek ever come back, or was he crushed to death by a giant donut?

[schild]

I was assuming heart attack first week on the job.

[Teleku]

I know, his last post was in this thread    Hope everything is OK.

Also, I've just been asked by my Norwegian friends to bring as much booze as possible with me for the wedding as alcohol is so god damn expensive in Norway.  Theres no specific restriction on the amount of alcohol you can have in your checked luggage, right?  Just comes down to the custom duties of the country your flying into?  Looks like I'm about to give Norway a massive taste of Bourbon!  

[Nightshade]

I'm just wondering if it was such a giant success that the Dunkin' Donut and Krispy Kreme donut assassins had to take him out.

[Xuri]

Theres no specific restriction on the amount of alcohol you can have in your checked luggage, right?  Just comes down to the custom duties of the country your flying into?

Check this page for specific details about importing alcohol and stuff.

[NiX]

Maybe he got fat fingers from eating too many bagels. Oh the irony!

[Teleku]

Theres no specific restriction on the amount of alcohol you can have in your checked luggage, right?  Just comes down to the custom duties of the country your flying into?

Check this page for specific details about importing alcohol and stuff.

So, anybody know if they actually check you at customs in Norway?  Every time I've been to Europe so far, I've just had my passport stamped and walked out the airport.  Is it any different in Norway?  What I'm bringing will pretty much fall under those guidelines, but I might see if I can bring 1.5 liters of Whiskey, though the limit is 1 liter.

I guess if all else fails, I can just claim stupid foreigner who didn't understand the rules correctly  

[Yoru]

"Liter? What's that? That's like, your word for a gallon, right?" 

[Teleku]

I am most certainly going to use that now.

[Oban]

So, anybody know if they actually check you at customs in Norway?

Well, they can check.  If they do find something, they can prevent you from entering the country again in the future, fine you or possibly send you to prison.  Always a fun mark in your passport to explain to other countries you visit too.  Really not worth it.