Boichik uses robotics to craft beloved bagels [Video]

With an almost cult-like following, Boichik Bagels is more than a Bay Area household name. It’s also a high-tech manufacturing business.

If you think “high-tech” and “bagels” can’t go together, then you haven’t visited the Boichik’s shop and factory on Sixth Street in the Gilman District.

Boichik Bagels offers behind-the-scenes tours of its bagel factory on Thursday, Oct. 10, as part of the Berkeley Manufacturing Week 2024 tour series. Also offering tours are: Third Culture Bakery, Adams & Chittenden Scientific Glass, Takara Sake, TCHO Chocolate, Covenant Wines, Cult Crackers, Artworks Foundry, Berkeley Potters Guild, Trumer Brewery, Cellarmaker Brewing Company, and Zenbooth. Organized by the City of Berkeley Office of Economic Development.

Boichik produces what a New York Times food critic called “some of the finest New York-style bagels I’ve ever tasted.”(Yes, in Berkeley, not New York!). Boichik makes over 12,000 bagels per day, along with Jewish delicacies like black and white cookies, challah and whitefish …