Wide World of Bagels Creates Partnerships With Foxwoods, Aquarium And Seaport

The key to the hearts of southeastern Connecticut residents may be the in food. At least, that’s what the team at in Mystic is hoping. 

Over the past few months the downtown Mystic eatery has been busy creating partnerships with area businesses such as the Foxwoods Resorts and Casino, the and the .

Seaport and Aquarium staffers receive 10 percent off everything at Wide World of Bagels and Foxwoods Resorts and Casino employees ate for free during the first week of February and now receive 15 percent off everything.

“We’re not just building a business we’re building a community,” said Wide World of Bagels President Elliot Cohen.

Cohen owns several bagel places and pancake houses in New Jersey but he said this is the first time the company has offered these types of discounts.

“It’s a different type of community,” Elliot said.

The company’s partnership with the Aquarium began during the in October when Wide World of Bagels gave participants free food. Both the aquarium and the seaport have partnerships with several other places and Foxwoods Resorts and Casino has discounts for employees at area businesses as well as online.

“The partnership between Foxwoods and Wide World of Bagels is a great example of how different size businesses can work together in order to do amazing things,” said Scott Cohen of Wide World of Bagels. “All of us understand that in this new world of uncertainty it is our jobs as local businesses to drive forward and make great things happen.”

Wide World of Bagels also offers 10 percent off to all active military personnel and $1 coffee to senior citizens.

In exchange for the discounts Wide World of Bagels, which gets it name in front of a group of people who might otherwise not have gone to the place and Elliot said he hopes it builds a stronger economic community in Mystic by getting people to come downtown.

“We believe in giving back to the community,” Elliot said.