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What can you eat at a work event at a non-kosher restaurant? - Keeping it Kosher Clip
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Listener question! 🎙️ You’re attending a work event at a non-kosher restaurant. What can you actually eat or drink? Our host, Rabbi Ezra Sarna, is joined by Rabbi Dov Schreier, OU Kosher Rabbinic Coordinator and Director of Food Service, to discuss all things restaurants, from the responsibilities of a mashgiach and maintaining kosher standards to the challenges of running a kosher kitchen and working with restaurant owners. Listen now at keepingitkosher.org or wherever you get your podcasts.
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I have a work event I need to attend in
a non-kosher restaurant, and they can't
accommodate me and get me a kosher meal. So,
what can I get there? Drinks, water, salad?
Given the person's challenges, the best thing is
to eat before and to drink Coca-Cola. Water might
be a challenge in New York City because
of bugs in the water. As far as fruit,
getting a whole fruit is probably better.
With cut-up fruit, already you're running
into challenges. What knives they're
cutting it with. And depending on how
careful they are in the kitchen, they might
have cut the beef with the same knife that
they're cutting the melon. So you have to be
careful with fruit at a non-kosher restaurant.
And getting like a regular garden salad?
Getting a regular garden salad, it's a
challenge to wash vegetables in a kosher
restaurant. They're certainly not washing
the vegetables in a non-kosher restaurant.