Kosher airline catering · Jamaica, New York
Borenstein Caterers has loaded kosher meals onto aircraft at New York's airport since 1946. Today it operates the only fully equipped, complete kosher in-flight kitchen in the United States — 15,000 meals a day, five minutes from JFK.
The 1946 line — keep scrolling, the aircraft changes with the decades
Sam and Mrs. Borenstein begin handing kosher meals up to propeller aircraft at New York's new international airport — crates, tins, and a standard that never gets renegotiated.
The airport around them will become JFK. The standard stays.
Douglas DC-4 · Piston era
El Al Airlines acquires Borenstein as a subsidiary — a national airline putting its own name behind the kitchen that feeds its passengers.
The kosher tray becomes a scheduled, certified, repeatable product on the world's new jets.
Boeing 707 · A subsidiary of El Al since 1970
Widebodies multiply the trays; the kitchen answers with volume that never outruns supervision. Every meal stays OU Kosher certified, from a facility inspected by the FDA and USDA.
50+ domestic & international airlines
“Transform the concept of kosher food from a religious and ethnic food into the cutting-edge, healthy version it can be.”
Eight decades of trust now carry a new product: Fresh Meals cooked and packaged on the day of the flight, and the Kosher4U grab-and-go line.
Cooked + packaged on flight day
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The institution, in numbers
Where the 1946 line lands
“Transform the concept of kosher food from a religious and ethnic food into the cutting-edge, healthy version it can be.” — The Borenstein vision
The company that spent eight decades earning kosher trust has rebuilt its entire line around freshness — because the one thing a caterer cannot retrofit is credibility.
179-29 150th Road, Jamaica NY · The commissary line, today
Who boards our meals
Scheduled kosher meal programs and special-meal (KSML) fulfillment across U.S. carriers flying from JFK.
Flag carriers and long-haul operators — including our parent, El Al Airlines, since 1970.
Provisioned kosher galleys and full voyage programs loaded dockside from the JFK commissary.
Certified meals for rail food service — sealed, labeled and chilled for onboard reheating.
Hospitals, universities and corporate dining that need volume kosher without building a kosher kitchen.
The grab-and-go line for lounges, terminals and stores — fresh, certified, ready to travel.
Carrier references and program details are shared directly during the RFP process.
Request for proposal
Tell us your routes, volumes and service classes. Our commissary desk will return a capabilities package, certification file and pricing structure — and you're welcome to walk the kitchen. We're five minutes from JFK.