CLEVELAND, Ohio – Rising up, Keene Cockburn had a distaste for processed sandwich bread, so he requested his mom to make him sandwiches on “all the things bagels” to gas his athletic pursuits – a behavior he continued by means of his school days on the basketball court docket.
As soon as he graduated with a enterprise diploma, Cockburn struggled to discover a job that glad his passions. Whereas he looked for a satisfying profession, he nonetheless toyed with beginning his personal enterprise – promoting bagel sandwiches — however with no expertise within the restaurant business, it remained only a dream.