After months of build-out and an investment topping $1 million, Northeast Florida-based owners rolled out the concept they call “Bang’n Bagel Company” over the weekend with a grand opening scheduled May 30.
“We’re living out our dream, our longtime dream of opening a bagel shop,” owner Mark DeBiase said May 26 as customers checked out the colorful shop in an end unit at 13423 Beach Blvd.
“We want it to be an uplifting place.”
DeBiase, a Jacksonville businessman and New Jersey native, is investing with partners in the concept, starting with one shop and with more in store.
The menu includes New York bagels with freshly made dough rolled, boiled and baked on the premises and served with cream cheese spreads.
Bang’n Bagel serves bagels, breakfast and lunch sandwiches, sides, coffee, drinks and more. Branded T-shirts, caps and tumblers are displayed for sale as well.
DeBiase said previously the group is consulting with Goldberg Bagels, which operates more than 15 stores in the New York/New Jersey market.
He said previously Northeast Florida bagels aren’t like those he grew up eating and intends to recreate based on recipes from Goldberg Bagels “with a little bit of our own twist.”
Bang’n Bagel is based in Jacksonville Beach and led by DeBiase, son August “Augie” DeBiase and Andrew Maider.
The three and consultant Robert Goldberg, third generation of Goldberg’s Bagels in New York, attended to final tasks May 26 in setting up, organizing, instructing and fine-tuning the enterprise at northwest Gerona Drive West and Beach Boulevard, west of Hodges Boulevard.
The roughly dozen team members served customers who came in, greeted outside by a “now open” sidewalk sign, tent-covered patio tables and a menu board for the drive-thru, which is expected to open June 1.
Hours are 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily. The shop seats about 30 inside and on the patio.
Augie DeBiase said business has been steady considering Bang’n Bagel has not been promoting the opening yet on social media.
The menu
Most of the menu items are made in-house.
Augie DeBiase provided a tour May 26 that included the back-of-house kitchen with a large mixer for the bagel dough and for the cream cheese and other equipment including the water boil (45 seconds); the settling room; and the oven to finish the job in 18 to 20 minutes.
The menu board lists 11 bagel choices daily plus one or more specialties.
Daily choices listed on the board comprise blueberry, egg, everything, French toast, garlic, jalapeno cheddar, onion, plain, poppy, salt and sesame. Gluten-free bagels are available.
The May 26 choices included Asiago cheese and cinnamon raisin.
Bagel prices start at $2.19 each, with a half-dozen at $10.98 and a baker’s dozen of 13 at $18.98.
There are 14 cream cheeses.
Breakfast and lunch sandwiches, at $7.98 to $12.98 each for the 10 choices, are served on a bagel, brioche bun or sourdough. Customers also can build their own.
Breakfast sandwiches comprise combinations of eggs, bacon, pastrami, pork roll, sausage, cheese and more.
Along with ham, pastrami, pork roll, roast beef, turkey and cheeses for the lunch sandwiches, the refrigerated case next to the bagels has egg salad, two varieties of chicken salad and lox.
Sides include corkscrew fries with or without cheese, along with drinks such as orange juice squeezed in-house, coffees based on Jacksonville’s Martin Coffee Co., refreshers, bottled water and fountain drinks.
Sweets include cookies, pastries and, soon, muffins.
The DeBiases said the team intends to use as many local providers as possible.
Designs and plans
The DeBiases provided the concepts for the graphics, which were completed by Designmind LLC of Jacksonville.
Mark DeBiase said previously the design will reflect the “art studio” look from New York and New Jersey with the presentation of the bagels and cream cheese spreads.
Graphics of bagels and food cover the wall, the ceiling and even the restrooms, with text reading, “Bang’n Bagels, Spread the Love.”
The name came from Augie, who did a survey of several names on social media.
Mark DeBiase said several Bang’n Bagel stores are planned around Jacksonville and along Florida’s East Coast. A few more are anticipated next for Nocatee and St. Johns County, he said.
The first few will be corporately owned, with franchising possible after that.
“We have had people asking if there is a franchising opportunity,” he said. “We want to get it right first.”
The location
The city issued a permit Aug. 27, 2025, for Oakwell Companies LLC of Green Cove Springs to renovate the 1,921-square-foot space at a project cost of $185,000.
Bang’n Bagel is in an end unit in a 7,120-square-foot building. The space was previously leased to Pita Pit and more recently, Kairos Jax.
Mark DeBiase had projected a Nov. 1 opening, but said May 26 there was more work to do than thought.
DeBiase expected total build-out costs of about $400,000 but said that now is more than $1 million. “We thought it would be an easier conversion,” he said.
“We wanted it to be different. We tried to make more of a New York deli,” he said.
FC3 Architecture + Design LLC of Hardyston, New Jersey, is the architect of record. Designmind LLC of Jacksonville is the interior designer.
The city issued a permit Aug. 4 for the signage for “Bang’n Bagel Company” at a cost of $2,388. Taylor Sign & Design Inc. was the contractor.
“We’ve had a lot of help from a lot of people,” DeBiase said.
The operators
Bangin Bagel Co. LLC was registered with the state May 7, 2025, to do business in Suite 204 at the Beach Boulevard address.
The LLC is led by Mark and August DeBiase of Jacksonville Beach and Andrew Maider in St. Augustine.
Mark DeBiase said Markie, another son, is the general manager. Daughter Sophia DeBiase plans to be the customer service manager and handle the front-of-store customer experience.
Mark and Augie DeBiase and Drew Maider also are franchisees of Jersey Mike’s Subs, with more than two dozen in the Cocoa Beach, Daytona, Gainesville and Jacksonville markets, including one in the strip center with Bang’n Bagel.
Augie DeBiase and Maider operate them.
The Beach Boulevard property is owned by A D Development LLC, also led by Mark DeBiase.