How Does Lancaster’s Small Jewish Community Welcome Thousands of Visitors Every Chol Hamoed & Summer

This is chaos. Organized chaos. Tens of thousands of people are being here. This is all going >> by the way. >> All right. Tell us what you're doing. >> We're just uh making the dough, stretching it. Got the flip. Throw it in the air for just for >> uh Look at that. No jokes. Going to show you a ma that 500 people are in today. It's the filter's working on it. >> But look at this. If you look over here, there's the kindergarten classroom. We have all the kids and the cubbies and the the kitchen set >> every morning during the busy seasons. Donuts, chocolate danishes, cinnamon danish custard. Come on. Come on. They're middle of davening. So, we're going to we're going to keep it down. They just built a brand new base. The chandelier's 3,600 ornaments on that chandelier the buck put up. >> By the way, if you want to be here, let's say middle of the year for shab. So, for >> all us a toz paper goods to everything. >> I love that. Okay. So we got someone to interview and see what's happening over here all year round in Lancaster. People think it's only open and it's summer. It's open all year round. There's yeshiva here, right? What's it? >> I'm dehiv four years now. There's a community 30 young living here every single day. Mñan and Sed three star a day. It's we're really here to talk about what goes on in the summer. The restaurant, the catering that's all year round. We'll get to that soon. And the mini mart, >> the mini mart, the catering, the mikvah, the minimum, the yeshiva, the young. Here is he. He owns this business. He's in yeshiva here 10 years. Take it away. >> This is a little excessive, but fine. Either way, I'll bring you into first the catering over here. >> You're working in a kitchen. >> We have an order going out right now to LA, Virginia for 300 people tonight, I think we're doing. And uh we have over here kamite in the summer takeout open 2:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. We have uh we have uh >> Oh, wow. What's this? Where's the truck going to? >> This is going to LA, Virginia. There's a unique adventures has program over there. >> How far is it from here? >> 3 and 1/2 hours. >> Wow. >> Um we have over here take out in the summer. Kalamite >> kitchen. I love going into kitchens. Let me see what's happening. >> We have to whatever. We're operating. We're busy over here. So, you'll excuse us. >> Should I start? Should I start my day with >> I place you for 4 hours already. Beef and broccoli going out. We put it together over there on site. We don't want to send mushy broccoli and beef. >> Freium. This is not a regular feder video. It's not Freyium. Look here. Freium look here. This is chaos. Organized chaos. Tens of thousands of people are being here. Colite. This is all going to Virginia for the order. 350 people are eating tonight. Come here. I'll show you more. People think you need to go to Miami. It has a name. You go to Miami. Wow. I went to Miami. Then you go jet skiing. So, the same thing. Lancaster has the name with a lot of attractions. Unlimited things to do. We just made a list of like 50 attractions 30 minutes away. >> Really? This is the only only kosher place you can actually buy food in Lancaster. >> Only from uh establishment shul mikvah anything. I mean within at least an hour and a half radius. >> We have egg rolls. This is going to be sesame chicken, pretzel chicken, more egg rolls, crispy beef over there. Sweet and sour chicken. And now a fro. >> By the way, where you getting the chicken from? >> This is from This is from Farms. 40 minutes away. It comes here. The chickens are still hot. We immediately we just break it down into these bags. We have a vacuum packer machine over there. Gets frozen. >> What are we doing over here? Salads. >> Yeah, they're cutting up tomatoes or salads. >> This is Carlos. This is Andre. >> I like the idea how you how you're cutting it in half to cherry tomatoes. >> Shout out to Romanian uh apron if you want. >> Here we have mushroom rotell with fried onions and sauteed mushrooms. This is our best product. We'll give you a bowl in a minute. >> And this is also going to the to Virginia. >> All for Virginia. You're going to come back. >> One second. When are you opening the restaurant over here? >> 2:00 today. You're going to come back then. It's going to be It's going to be a zoo. You don't need to go to the zoo. Just come here for the zoo. >> You have enough food, by the way? >> 100%. >> Really? >> Everyone will get food. The wait times might hit 30 minutes, 35 minutes. >> I don't think there's enough chicken for everybody. >> So much chicken. >> Famous. What do you say to that? Custom not so famous. Yeah, we contacted you busy. You're going to Okachobee. You're going all around the world. We finally got you here in Lancaster, 2 hours away from Lakewood. Not a big deal. Midwinter Kaneka, right? >> This restaurant is open all year round. >> All year round. >> During the year, we're open for pre-orders. Give us 12-hour notice. We'll have an order for you. We have a corporate event. All you people, there's nursing homes over here, a lot of healthcare. All year we're here. We need advanced notice. And during the busy times, we're open full service, fresh order. >> What's the phone number? someone who has any questions >> 7177238316 is a full team of people that will answer your questions day or night >> by if you want to be here let's say middle of the year for shab so for >> all us a toz paper goods to everything >> I love that >> now Fran will show you the mini mart here's the the takeout over there and over here we brought in for all you liquid people we brought in fresh this morning um fresh gpines ry bread >> gpines wow with bagels we have more inside. It's a little bit overflow, but um >> cinnamon buns. >> Cinnamon buns is a full full uh full thing inside. Everything's in the middle of getting reloaded. Drink fridge. Ice cream's going to get reloaded. We have over here self checkouts. We trust each other. >> So check out. >> We trust each other. >> And we have over here also fresh from Gings. Fresh from Gings every morning during the busy seasons. Donuts, chocolate danishes, cinnamon danish, custard. Come on. Come on. By the way, this is this is you also have like a whole uh pizza pizza shop in the >> There's another guy. It's owned and operated by somebody else, but there's fresh pizza in the shul here. We have growing also now for the kyo more than for >> KJ chicken. >> KJ chicken. Everything fresh fresh from the last two days. Every single thing over here. >> So, this is open all year round. This we just took over uh 3 months ago. Oh, look at this. They have they have the 15 apples, okanov, apple juice, >> of course, >> and milk and >> everything. Everything everything >> more stunt coming in all the >> You don't have to slap anything from from from the >> nothing. This is Yeah. Everything only getting bigger and better all the time. That's it. Prime. Here you have the one, the only Rababa leader. Famous worldwide for many number of things. But over here, he's famous more for he is the the I don't know the term I'm looking for, little camera shy. the the pioneer I guess is a good word. Lancaster, >> how long a year already Lancaster? >> Yeah. >> Wow. Still going. I'm from a lot of manufacturing. >> Central Pennsylvania is one of the largest food manufacturing areas in the country. I think there's what over how many hundreds and hundreds. So that means that >> by the way I don't know that's asking me like uh how tall is a person,000 $300,000 house right now 300. We're not the only people who can sell houses. We can sell houses also. She goes to show him the mikvah. We're opening the kitchen doors for you today. Here, look. >> One second. What's this? Oh, this is the pizza. >> This is the pizza shop in Lancaster. It's been not as consistent and always open as the mini mart like 24-hour the mini mart. >> Okay, >> let me show you over here. Go by >> Lancaster Kosha pizza. We're rolling out a fresh pie right now. Come. >> Oh, wow. Everything is baked in house. Look at this. All right. Tell us what you're doing. Hi, M. >> Just uh making the dough, stretching it. Got the flip. Throw it in the air for just for uh >> Look at that. No jokes. You think this is Amish? Look at this technology. >> Wow. Love this. Okay. >> No. Let's get some sauce. >> Look at what's going on over here. Wow. You have you have garlic nuts. >> Nuts. What are you doing over here? >> This is open. This is open all day, all year round. Only like by season. >> This No, this every day in the summer when it's really busy. The mini mart though across the street 24 hours every single day. >> 24 hours. >> The catering any catering you need. Weddings, baritzvah, Chevro, Lakewood, Tri-State, Orlando, Miami, Baltimore, we do it all. >> Pizza. They're in the middle of davening. So we're going to we're going to keep it down. They just built a brand new base. Mesh the chandelier's 3,600 ornaments on that chandelier the Baham put up middleman. They're in the middle of building the stage. We built this that still has to be stained. These windows are old. We kept it. We kept at least one thing. Even a seating chart for the bak small. See look we look over here. This is this is a crime. This is normally the dining room where the yeshiva bakim eat shabas and during the week Now during the season, it just redone also. Now we use it for minyanim all day. 30 minyanimum shakers we had here this morning. >> Wow. Tens of thousands of people. The new chandelier, the new window shades are in Kaides temporary. Look, we put in sinks for the baham to wash until now. We had to walk around the corner. Here we have the sinks. We have a piano there. We can make a simple space of sha tonight. This morning 700 cups of coffee at least. At least >> no charge. >> No charge. We We try to ask. We We try to fund raise now. We need you for this. >> By the way, there's a phone number to be charged. We want to donate something. We want to be want to support this. >> Let me Let me get you a phone number for him. Over here. We have We're still in the middle of construction. We have all the donations available. I'm going to put up a phone number here. You can call, donate, anything you need. If you need a bed, you can call this number also. This is the administrator. He's going to take care of everything. 717 is the Lancaster area code. Oo. 9478914 717-9478914 we'll take care of everything you need donations food whatever it takes prime 2 years ago the community is growing to the extent 30 we had to open there's 45 ying in the now let me show you around obviously it's closed now for for manim if you look here's the kindergarten classroom we have all the kids and the cubby ies and the the kitchen set. Mom is training them for the real world. Let me show you. Let me come show you another classroom. >> This boys and girls, >> this is this is the primary boys and girls. Yeah, there's a rebby for the for the older kids first, second grade. We'll get there. That's just the boys obviously, but this is the primary class. We have these naps, the whiteboard, air conditioning, privacy. >> Wow. >> No games played. >> I think >> this is this all the 35 families are sending away. All the 35 families of 40 over 45 kids. This is the shar for the first and second grade where they're learning starting very soon. >> Oh wow. Look at this. >> Look. Look at that. >> Look at that. This is This used to be the We were always pivoting here from the to the room for the bakim. >> Loving it, huh? >> Now, let me show you the suka mats. I'm careful. We still didn't have the suka. Most years we just had a small client of suka over there. This year few Bak Matim Kipper they stayed behind the beginning of Bis and put up this gorgeous beautiful circle with lights, tables, everything for the tourists. We take care of the tourist. I'm going to show you the mikvah now. 500 people were in there this morning. >> By the way, what's this man? >> Yes, this this bakham they took it on a road trip this summer. They went they went up to Canada. It's all it's all fun. We we deal with the gashasa around there. This building over here was built in 1885. >> What? >> Where we just showed you before the mini mart that was horse stables. We cleaned them out a few months ago before the summer to build a supermarket. But all these rooms over here, this is I don't know, maybe the slaves were here or something. Let me show you. >> What's up? What's up? Is he renting it out? >> So, we used to the guy the guy would take care of the property used to live there. Now, we're going to be renting it out. Maybe the for the dorm. >> Now, this is the mikvah. >> We just redid it again. Not too fancy. We're short on the funds. We're very simple community. But let me show you. We have we have the kiosk obviously. And again, you have to understand 500 people in here. In here today, here we have the shower. Beautiful. It works. I'm show you a ma that 500 people are in today. >> It's the filter's working on it. >> But look at this. It's a nice simple like the community. We don't we don't really hot mikvah. It's >> We have everything in the mikvah. >> Let me show you the ka mikvah for the restaurant. We have a lot of kale table. Here we have the kale mikvah. Wow. >> Beautiful. Beautiful bar. >> So you have you have the shook from the mikvah and from the kum. >> Yes. For everything we have for anyone who needs we have we could do your laundry here if you want. >> They have the robot vacuum cleaners these days. I see that we're short on staff and we need the money. >> That's going to be all right side. This is an amazing tour. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. If anybody needs any questions Lancaster Kosher Catering is here to serve all your needs. Ber mitzvah's wedding chevas Lancaster >> 7177238316 you do m you do >> we do every tri-state area Orlando Baltimore Bitzvas Chevas shabas boxes shabas packages what upro what whatever you need we we do it we catering we can cater an event for 2,000 people it will taste homemade >> and you can deliver all over the triad area >> everywhere >> and you can also text on what's the same number >> yes 71772 >> and also What's with that? If somebody wants to rent a house over here in >> Sure. All the young light, they're ready to rent out their house. They'll clean it short also. >> Short-term, long-term people. The people are buying houses. We're mamish entrepreneurial community. >> Thank you so much. >> Someone one more thing. If someone wants, they can rent the house for Shabas. We'll get them food. We'll take care of them. 2-minute walk to the sh mikvah. Whatever they need taken care of. >> And it's also a over here. >> Obviously. Of course. A 10 10 15 block radius. We build it. Every time someone buys a new house, we'll build it bigger. >> Wow. Amazing. >> We take care of everything. Yes.