15,000 meals a day.
Every one boarded.
Borenstein Caterers operates the only fully equipped, complete kosher in-flight kitchen in the United States — cooking, sealing, and boarding fresh kosher meals for 50+ airlines from one facility at JFK, every day since 1946.
Cooked on flight day. Packaged on flight day.
Our Fresh Meals program is exactly what it says: meals are cooked and packaged on the day they fly. No frozen inventory standing in for a kitchen — a production schedule built backward from each departure.
Lines fire
Hot kitchen, cold pantry, bakery, and butchery start against the day's airline manifests.
Blast chill
Cooked items are brought to holding temperature fast, then plated to each carrier's tray spec.
Double-sealed & marked
Every kosher meal is sealed and labeled so it arrives at the seat intact and verifiable.
To the aircraft door
Hi-lift trucks stage by departure. The board upstairs reads BOARDED — 15,000+ times a day.
One roof, receiving to aircraft door.
Everything happens inside a single certified envelope at 179-29 150th Road — no outside commissaries, no hand-offs we don't control. Follow the orange line.
Certified is a person on the floor, not a plaque on the wall.
OU Kosher
Certified by the Orthodox Union — mashgichim supervise every line, every shift, from receiving through seal.
FDA Registered
Operating as a registered food facility under FDA food-safety rules, with documented process controls.
USDA Inspected
Meat and poultry handled under USDA inspection — the paperwork your quality team will actually ask for.
For procurement: one supplier, one audit trail. Temperature logs, kosher certification, and federal inspection records live under the same roof as the ovens — ask and we hand them over.
Eighty years of the same promise.
Sam and Mrs. Borenstein started carrying kosher meals to New York's airfields when airliners still had propellers. The operation grew; the promise didn't change.
Founded in New York by Sam & Mrs. Borenstein — kosher meals for the first generation of air travelers.
Becomes a subsidiary of El Al Israel Airlines — airline ownership, airline discipline.
The only complete kosher in-flight kitchen in the USA, rebranded around one idea: kosher food as the cutting-edge, healthy version it can be — fresh, not frozen.
Built for airlines. Trusted everywhere else.
The same production discipline serves cruise lines, rail operators, and institutions — plus Kosher4U, our sealed grab-and-go line.
50+ Airlines
Domestic and international carriers boarded daily at JFK.
Cruise Lines
Provisioned kosher programs for multi-day sailings.
Rail & Institutions
Scheduled deliveries with the same audit trail.
Kosher4U
Sealed grab-and-go meals, ready wherever the buyer is.
Put us on your production board.
Ask for a facility walkthrough — the board, the line, and the paperwork, all in one visit.
CALL (718) 656-3600 →Jamaica, NY 11434 — at JFK