It was brought to my attention that many girls are buying food from various Dunkin Donuts locations around Lakewood. They are clearly unaware that only 3 locations are kosher – the one in Todd Plaza, one in Monmouth Medical Center, Southern Campus, and another in Jackson (South New Prospect Road).
Refreshers and coffee can be kosher everywhere (as long as you check ingredients), but nothing else is!
Kids have to know that they need to check for the kosher certificates before eating at any restaurant.
Please spread the word so that everyone is aware!
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are refreshers indeed kosher? i remember there was a issue with star bucks refreshers , maybe there was grape juice? don’t remember
i personally don’t like my girls or boys for that matter buying food in any store that also has non kosher , not sure why girls should be going to goyisha stores, they really don’t belong in 7/11 or quick check for that matter (big hang out)
Maybe the kosher stores should make the food cheaper like Dunkin and then we’ll shop there.
Are the 3 kosher locations Cholov Yisroel, Bishul Yisroel & Pas Yisroel?
Donuts are never. Coffee if you are certain the milk is cholov yisroel, then yes. Though you need to be sure they aren’t transferring non cholov yisroel into cholov yisroel bottles. They have been caught doing that in numerous locations over the years.
Refreshers, many are treif, grape juice.
That is for Starbucks, not for Dunkin.
cholov yisroel yes you just need to request
yes they have cholov yisroel you just need to request
Would need to come from a sealed bottle of milk to be Cholov Yisroel.
Also, can someone please clarify what the Lakewood Kashrus Organization is?
Agreed. When I lived in Lakewood, I tried inquiring about it but no one really knew. Everyone said the coffee is fine and the donuts are not chalav yisroel. Is it a reliable hechsher?
LKO is run by Rabbi Yosef Tesler under the leadership of Rabbi Tesler.
The kosher dunkin donuts are strictly kosher with no treif at all.
Most everything is made in a huge OU factory elsewhere.
News to me that the Hospital one is kosher
And obviously NO they are not pas yisrael Bishul yisroel or chalov yisrael.
These refreshers have NO grape juice in DD
Donuts and bagels are dairy and not cholov yisroel.
Who is Rabbi Tesler? Which Kehilla is he the Rav of?
I have never heard of him.
How do you trust that they didn’t put non CY in the C Y milk bottle
You don’t know. They have been caught in numerous locations transferring from bottle to bottle.
Lakewood Kashrus Organization is run by Rabbi Tessler. The CRC (Chicago) told me it is not a reliable hechsher and I have heard this from multiple people that are very well versed in kashrus. Starbucks refreshers are the problem, Dunkin uses a parve refresher’s base under CRC hashgacha, best to ask to see the container before.
KCL for past 30 years
(they added Hebrew letters to their kashrus now as well, called kashrus chareidim lakewood, for those that get inspired by hebrew words)
LKO and KCL have nothing to do with each other.
The 3 Dunkin stores are under our supervision-the Lakewood Kashrus Organization, Rabbi Yitzchok Abadi Shlita. Everything in the 2 stores at Todd Plaza & Jackson are Kosher. There are lists posted in each of the stores which items are Pareve & Milichic(Cholov Stam). Cholov Yisroel milk is available on request. The Dunkin at MMC-Southern campus(Next to the Emergency Room area) only the donuts, bagels & drinks are Kosher. Refer to the lists posted there.
Rabbi Yosef Tesler/Mashgiach for LKO.
meant Rabbi Abadi and spell check changed that sorry
Also when ordering Uber eats even in Lakewood not necessraily is it coming from those listed locations .. had the same experiance in monsey
I don’t understand why people would frequent these shops when we have so many other places with good hechsherim, bishul yisrael, and cholov yisroel available to us. Please don’t tell me it’s about money – if that was the case then make your own coffee at home.
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Rabbi Tesler- you say cholov Yisroel is available on request. How I can ensure the milk they are giving me is indeed chalav Yisroel. Doesn’t milk need a mashgiach tamidi?
It’s a great Hekhsher and Pas Yisrael and Chalav Yisrael are completely unnecessary in those cases (and many other) which is obvious if you study the Sugyas and the later Halakhic decisions in depth.
There’s no Maa’lah to those things whatsoever so why specifically seek it out?
Money isn’t a factor, if any money is saved that’s just an extra Chesed from Hashem.
For those who disagree and learn the Halakha in a different way and choose these unnecessary stringencies that don’t actually do anything, from that perspective it makes sense to avoid those places, what can you do, some people have differential opinions, tzi gezunte heit.
Something people in the community need to understand is that when someone else has a different Halakhic opinion that does not conform to excessive and unnecessary and most importantly useless stringencies, that does NOT mean that they’re Chas Ve’Shalom just trying to save money at the expense of their Yiddishkeit, or that they’re less observant or that their Emunah is lacking.
people should first learn what bishul yisroel is before mentioning it. Anything a person eats is bishul yisroel otherwise its treif m’drobonon.
Our generation is spoiled. Plain and simple. If this was about an out of town community then I would get it. But, Lakewood where there is an insane amount of coffee places why to save $1 do you risk kashrus? Maybe people forgot why we have all these halachos? That eating things that arent kosher actually effect you I am a high school girl who also is on a tight budget but would never dream of saving money by going into a place where you cant really trust them. And dont try the excuse that DD tastes better- KAVA, coffee bean…. they taste perfectly fine.
Think for a min.