Blazing Bagels' owner, Dennis Ballen, began selling bagels and cream cheese out of a handmade bagel cart to local businesses during breakfast and lunchtime. As the the service's popularity grew, Dennis hired a handful of senior citizens with more carts to push bagels around to more businesses. As routes grew, and he continued to be unsatisfied with the bagels he was purchasing from a small bagel shop in town, so Dennis hired a consultant and learned to make his own bagels. The first retail shop opened in 2001, and few years later, Bellevue Blazing Bagels opened, followed by a brick and mortar location at Safeco Field and Sodo Blazing Bagels soon followed. 

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