Lender’s Bagels Founder Dead at Age 81

On the same day word comes down of the death of the co-founder of Mr. Coffee, another man who changed breakfast for many American households is also dead.

FOX News Radio’s Lilian Woo reports on the death of Murray Lender:

Many Americans knew Murray Lender through his TV commercials.

(Lender’s Bagels Commercial) “I spent my life baking bagels.  Now, you ask, ‘is baking bagels a life’s work?'”

But in truth, the son of an immigrant from Poland did much more than that.  Along with family members, he helped turn their father’s small Connecticut bakery into a national company which today turns out hundreds of millions of bagels a year.

The Lenders, saying they were the first to sell bagels in packages to supermarkets, freezing them so they could ship without becoming stale.  Sold to Kraft Foods in 1984, the bagel company, now owned by Pinnacle Foods Group.

Murray Lender, who died in Florida from complications of a fall several weeks ago, was 81.

Lilian Woo, FOX News Radio.