JFK and Newark To Get Kosher Vending Machines

[Matt Molnar]

USA Today:

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.

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.

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/ ... ckin_N.htm

[nwafan20]

That is... interesting....

How do you dispense hot dogs in a vending machine???

[Ari707]

they already have one a Woodbury Commons Outlets I have heard it isn't bad takes about a minute to cook up the food.

[adam613]

The company that makes these machines has been at it for awhile. Their website:

http://www.koshervendingindustries.com/ (warning: annoying music)

There was an article in the paper about them a few months ago as well:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/15/dining/15vend.html

I'm surprised it took them so long to get into the airports...there used to be a kosher hot dog vendor in the Tower Air "terminal" and it was wonderful when I was into that sort of thing...

[Mateo]

This company exhibited at Kosherfest, an industry trade show, back in November. I remember getting a chuckle at the "24/6" branding. It's a niche market, for sure, but there's very little overhead, and the audience is captive. Every night, 350 people are waiting for LY008 to depart around midnight (and have been at the airport for a good long time), and the T4 food court is long since closed by then. You think someone's going to hit up the machine for a snack? I guarantee it.