{"id":1091693,"date":"2021-12-06T20:46:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T01:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1091693"},"modified":"2021-12-06T20:46:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T01:46:17","slug":"supply-chain-problems-lead-to-cream-cheese-shortage-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supply-chain-problems-lead-to-cream-cheese-shortage-in-new-york-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Supply Chain Problems Lead To Cream Cheese Shortage In New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupply-chain-problems-lead-to-cream-cheese-shortage-in-new-york-city%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1091693&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>New York City bagel shop owners are scrambling to keep up their supply of cream cheese, and in some cases, their customers, as the supply chain crisis has led to a shortage of the spread, a staple of New Yorkers\u2019 diets.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/04\/nyregion\/cream-cheese-shortage-nyc-bagels.html?partner=slack&amp;smid=sl-share\">The New York Times<\/a>, multiple bagel shops across the city are taking extreme measures to get their hands on as much cream cheese as they possibly can.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is bad. This is very bad,\u201d said Pedro Aguilar, a manager at Pick-a-Bagel, a Manhattan-based chain with several locations. As of Friday afternoon, Aguilar said he only had enough cream cheese to last until Monday, the Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>The manager of another bagel shop told the NYT that he had enough to last him about 10 days. Another manager said he had enough to last until Thursday, but his typical supplier could not tell him when his next shipment would arrive.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Pugliese, the owner of Tompkins Square Bagels in Manhattan\u2019s East Village neighborhood, told the NYT that he received a call from his dairy supplier saying that his Friday order for 800 pounds of cream cheese would not be arriving. \u201cI was like, \u2018What am I going to do this weekend?\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cFour [suppliers] just told me they can\u2019t get me cream cheese.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another store owner was forced to drive from Brooklyn to New Jersey to pick up 2,000 pounds of cream cheese himself, in order to meet the demand for the thousands of bagels he sells in a day, without raising prices.<\/p>\n<p>Dairy suppliers also are flummoxed by the shortage. \u201cI\u2019ve never been out of cream cheese for 30 years,\u201d said Joseph Yemma, the owner of Brooklyn-based F&amp;H Dairies, one of the wholesale dairy distributors for many New York bagel shops. \u201cThere\u2019s no end in sight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New York bagel shops go through thousands of pounds of cream cheese in the course of a few weeks, the Times reported. Most shops make their own cream cheese spreads, using unprocessed raw cream cheese as a base and adding their own ingredients and flavors. They cannot use store-bought cream cheese, and their customers would notice if they did, the store owners told the Times.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Pizzano, a sales representative with wholesale food distributor Fischer Foods, said the problem runs up and down the supply chain. A shortage of manufacturing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/black-friday-sees-more-online-shopping-as-retailers-battle-labor-shortages-supply-chain-disruptions\">labor<\/a> due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trucking-groups-could-lose-37-of-drivers-over-biden-vaccine-mandate-worsening-supply-chain-crisis\">trucker shortage<\/a> because of vaccine mandates, and a shortage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cost-of-wooden-pallets-is-soaring-amid-supply-chain-bottlenecks\">packaging materials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sounds kind of silly, talking about this like it\u2019s some kind of huge crisis,\u201d Pugliese said, but bagels and cream cheese are a \u201cbig deal\u201d to his customers, even \u201csacred.\u201d \u201cI hate feeling like I\u2019ve let people down,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Several customers told the Times that if cream cheese was not available, they would be less likely to even buy a bagel. \u201cProbably not, no,\u201d said one customer when asked if he would buy a bagel without cream cheese. \u201cThat\u2019s an essential part of the bagel,\u201d the customer said.<\/p>\n<p>Cream cheese is not the only staple item that is running short. The Daily Wire previously reported that popular food items from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/supply-chain-crisis-leads-to-shortage-of-chicken-tenders-second-chicken-shortage-in-2021\">chicken tenders<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/canada-taps-strategic-stockpile-of-maple-syrup-amid-shortage\">maple syrup<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/liquor-shortage-hits-united-states-as-holidays-approach\">liquor<\/a> are all affected by the supply chain bottlenecks, leading to shortages.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City bagel shop owners are scrambling to keep up their supply of cream cheese, and in some cases, their customers, as the supply chain crisis has led to a shortage of the spread, a staple of New Yorkers\u2019 diets.According to a report from The New York Times, multiple bagel shops across the city are taking extreme measures to get their hands on as much cream cheese as they possibly can.\u201cThis is bad. This is very bad,\u201d said Pedro Aguilar, a manager at Pick-a-Bagel, a Manhattan-based chain with several locations. As of Friday afternoon, Aguilar said he only had enough cream cheese to last until Monday, the Times reported.The manager of another bagel shop told the NYT that he had enough to last him about 10 days. Another manager said he had enough to last until Thursday, but his typical supplier could not tell him when his next shipment would arrive.Christopher Pugliese, the owner of Tompkins Square Bagels in Manhattan\u2019s East Village neighborhood, told the NYT that he received a call from his dairy supplier saying that his Friday order for 800 pounds of cream cheese would not be arriving. \u201cI was like, \u2018What am I going to do this weekend?\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cFour [suppliers] just told me they can\u2019t get me cream cheese.\u201dAnother store owner was forced to drive from Brooklyn to New Jersey to pick up 2,000 pounds of cream cheese himself, in order to meet the demand for the thousands of bagels he sells in a day, without raising prices.Dairy suppliers also are flummoxed by the shortage. \u201cI\u2019ve never been out of cream cheese for 30 years,\u201d said Joseph Yemma, the owner of Brooklyn-based F&#038;H Dairies, one of the wholesale dairy distributors for many New York bagel shops. \u201cThere\u2019s no end in sight.\u201dNew York bagel shops go through thousands of pounds of cream cheese in the course of a few weeks, the Times reported. Most shops make their own cream cheese spreads, using unprocessed raw cream cheese as a base and adding their own ingredients and flavors. They cannot use store-bought cream cheese, and their customers would notice if they did, the store owners told the Times.Phil Pizzano, a sales representative with wholesale food distributor Fischer Foods, said the problem runs up and down the supply chain. A shortage of manufacturing labor due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a trucker shortage because of vaccine mandates, and a shortage of packaging materials.\u201cIt sounds kind of silly, talking about this like it\u2019s some kind of huge crisis,\u201d Pugliese said, but bagels and cream cheese are a \u201cbig deal\u201d to his customers, even \u201csacred.\u201d \u201cI hate feeling like I\u2019ve let people down,\u201d he added.Several customers told the Times that if cream cheese was not available, they would be less likely to even buy a bagel. \u201cProbably not, no,\u201d said one customer when asked if he would buy a bagel without cream cheese. \u201cThat\u2019s an essential part of the bagel,\u201d the customer said.Cream cheese is not the only staple item that is running short. The Daily Wire previously reported that popular food items from chicken tenders to maple syrup to liquor are all affected by the supply chain bottlenecks, leading to shortages.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}