Subway Opens Kosher Restaurant in Brooklyn
Here's one thing I didn't realize until I started reading parenting blogs by the hundreds: Brooklyn is chock-full of young families. Take, for example, a site like Babble'sStrollerderby, where four staffers and at least one prolific parenting blogger are Brooklynites.
Bear with me as I tie my Southerner's growing familiarity with Brooklyn in with this news from Subway, which recently opened a fully kosher location in Brooklyn, allowing many customers their first taste of traditional American-style fast food. Whew. It tired me even to type that sentence. But it's the best I've got in the two minutes before I have to go pick up Baby A from preschool.
Okay. So.
Subway recently opened this fully kosher restaurant in Brooklyn, marking the sandwich franchise's second North American kosher restaurant and the first of its kind on the East Coast.
The restaurant, which opened on January 2, is located in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. Owned and operated by three Sephardic Jewish business partners from the community, the restaurant is primarily a family affair with wives, mothers, and other relatives taking turns baking bread, prepping ingredients, and making sandwiches. The restaurant is under the rabbinical supervision of Rabbi Gornish.
In keeping with Jewish tradition the restaurant closes on Friday at sundown and reopens for business one hour after nightfall on Saturday. With slight modifications, such as no cheese or pork products, the majority of the menu is almost identical to that of any other SUBWAY® restaurant.
The first kosher Subway location opened at a Jewish Community Center in a Cleveland suburb last year. The company says it's received many inquiries from prospective franchisees around the country who wanted to know how they can open their own kosher SUBWAY® restaurant, too.
Subway, which already has some 27,000 units, clearly sees big growth opportunities in this niche.
