Perhaps its different where you live but in these parts all breakfast options are bagel-oriented. If you wish to sit at a table and be served by a waitress who checks your coffee you're out of luck. At Jewish places its strictly self-serve with the meager available breakfast options served on paper ---or worse: in Styrofoam boxes. Even something simple like toast with jam is hard to find.
Why is that? Are we not a breakfast eating people? Is it because the non-kosher diners that sell omelettes and white-bread toast make their real money on meat dishes? Then what explains the ubiquity of kosher bagel joints? Every frum neighborhood has 10 places where you can wait on line for a bagel with too much cream cheese, but not one that offers table service and a proper breakfast menu. If we'll line up for bagels, why won't we sit down for eggs, potatoes, and maybe some veggie-bacon?
Why is that? Are we not a breakfast eating people? Is it because the non-kosher diners that sell omelettes and white-bread toast make their real money on meat dishes? Then what explains the ubiquity of kosher bagel joints? Every frum neighborhood has 10 places where you can wait on line for a bagel with too much cream cheese, but not one that offers table service and a proper breakfast menu. If we'll line up for bagels, why won't we sit down for eggs, potatoes, and maybe some veggie-bacon?
