In South Florida bagel-noshing circles, the news set tastebuds aquiver: a Palm Beach County company announced it had cracked the secret of how to make locally baked bagels taste like those made with New York City's famously pure tap water.
But now, a lawsuit is alleging the main selling point behind The Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co. restaurants is a sham.
A Boca Raton businessman has gone to court seeking more than $2 million in damages from the bagel business, saying he never would have wanted to develop franchises if he hadn't been duped into believing there was a patented process to "Brooklynize" water.
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