Press Release – Cheskel’s Shwarma King Update

BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — Cheskel’s Shwarma King located at 3715 13th Avenue in Boro Park, the site of an unfortunate incident involving the sale of a non-kosher frankfurter is currently very busy. No longer answering questions about what transpired–that has been answered to the satisfaction of its supervising agency–Bais Din Tartikov but extremely busy trying to fulfill orders of everything ranging from Shwarma, fries and its trademark VIP Chulent.

Says Shmuel Baron, owner of Cheskel’s Shwarma King “I have been extremely heartened by the support of the community for their trust and continued patronage of my restaurant. We have instituted new policies which in essence means that any type of purchuse of meat will be handled by me personally”and not delegated to any employee Jewish or non-Jewish“.

While the integrity of Shmuel Baron, owner of Cheskel’s Shwarma King has never been questioned, the discovery of non–Kosher meat—albeit for brief time span of several hours created an uproar in the greater Jewish community for several days. However after an exhaustive investigation by the certifying agency resulted in confirmation that this incident was an innocent yet tragic series of mistakes that could happen any restaurant.

Cheskel’s Shwarma King is a popular destination for consumers who keep a late schedule–open from 3 PM daily till past midnight. It offers a tasty selection of a specialty menu that has been personally put together by its owner Shmuel Baron who takes every facet of his restaurant operation very seriously. After the incident, Mr. Baron was very distraught at the prospect of a non–Kosher frankfurter being sold at his establishment and considered closing down Cheskel’s Shwarma King out of a sense of internal reckoning. However in deference of community Rabbis and leaders who felt that this would constitute an acknowledgement of guilt, Mr. Baron was encouraged to re–open his establishment which in fact he did to the delight of his loyal customers and the general community.

”Again, I would like to thank the Tartikov Bais Din and all my friends, too numerous to mention, whose confidence in me enabled me to draw the strength to reopen Cheskel’s Shwarma King and continue serving the community with highest standards of Kashrus. I look forward to serving the community and on behalf of my family would like to express my HaKaros Hatov to everyone for their continued patronage of Cheskel’s Shwarma King“. Ezra Friedlander, CEO of The Friedlander Group, a spokesman for Mr. Baron, reiterated that the trust by the Tartikov Bais Din in Mr. Baron was never in doubt stating ”from the onset of the investigation it became apparent that they were dealing with a situation of mistakes not intentions to G-D forbid cause anyone to eat non-Kosher. The enormous anguish on the part of Mr. Baron is indicative of an upright, highly ethical and moral individual who takes his responsibilities very personal and the continued certification of the Tartikov Bais Din is clearly the only proof of any consumer would need to be assured that Cheskel’s Shwarma King utilizes the highest standards of Kashrus”.