New York, NY – Travelers on a kosher diet will get more options later this month at New York-area airports. Kosher Vending Industries, a Valley Cottage, N.Y.-based company, has a contract with New York John F. Kennedy and Newark Liberty airports to install kosher-food vending machines at their facilities.
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At JFK, it will install four machines at Terminal 4 in the presecurity area. Two will sell Nathan’s Famous hot dogs. Two other machines will sell a variety of items, including mozzarella sticks, potato knish, vegetable cutlet, pizza rolls and onion rings. The company says Newark Liberty will also get two machines this month. [usatoda]
To answer a few of the questions:
USA TODAY beat us out of the the press release but Kosher Vending Industries and Nathans Famous Hot Dog Company have partnered up to create a GLATT KOSHER Hot dog for retail and machine use, due out in the next couple months. Along with Nathans our hot dog machines will be dispensing and are now dispensing Meal Mart Hot Dogs. Our other automated diner disenses foods that are Chlov Israel, Pas Israel and Bishul Israel. All products in the machine are under the watch of the Kof K and Rabbi Gissinger of Lakewood (Chelkas Hakashrut). In a couple of months we will have automated diners under the hashgacha of the CRC. Our updated site will have all our 50 locations in NY and NJ. In the next few months we will start rolling out machines in Baltimore, Washington, Chicago, Connecticut and Miami. We will update you asap. Thanks for the warm wishes.
The Jetblue terminal has several Cibo Express outlets, which carry kosher food. There’s no need for these machines there. Cibo is also at LaGuardia, in the Central and US Air terminals, in the concourses (after security).
Yes, Nathans make kosher hot dogs. You should be able to find them in most supermarkets. They have a reliable hechsher (R Zeilingold from Minnesota), but they’re not glatt, so if you’re makpid on glatt then you’ll have to stick to the milchig and pareve items.
nathans kosher????
Are Nathan’s hot dogs even kosher?
only in terminal 4? what about others like 5/6 where jetblue is located etc..