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Dunkin' Donuts owners Ted and Danny Jabbori flank Rabbi Joseph Krupnik,
Vaad kashrut director, in front of their Oak Park store.
Dunkin' Donuts
Remains Kosher
A petition protesting a non-kosher
menu proves inaccurate.
Shelli Liebman Dorfman
Senior Writer
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March 1. 2007
petition being circulated
about the status of kosher
Dunkin' Donuts restaurants
— including one in Oak Park — has
been proven to contain inaccurate
information.
The petition includes more than
2,000 names. However, it states incor-
rectly that the restaurant chain will be
requiring its stores to sell non-kosher
meat items, thus losing kosher certi-
fication.
According to Andrew Mastrangelo
of Dunkin' Donuts corporate offices
in Canton, Mass., the decision for any
of its kosher stores to become non-
kosher is made solely by the store
owner. "We are not forcing anyone
to make their stores non-kosher," he
said.
The petition began in Silver Spring,
Md., with Jonathan Bart, who said he
started it because "Dunkin' Donuts is
requiring one of the local franchise
owners, who has kosher stores, to sell
meat items. Because the items are
non-kosher, the owner would not be
• allowed to keep his (kosher) certifica-
tion."
Bart began circulating his petition
after the owner of two Baltimore-area
kosher stores decided to make those
stores, which had been kosher for
almost 10 years, non-kosher venues.
"The man who changed his kosher
stores to non-kosher was not told to
change it," Mastangelo said. "He did it
on his own."
The Baltimore-Washington, D.C.
area's five other kosher Dunkin'
Donuts will remain kosher. They are
among nearly 30 kosher stores around
the country.
"The petition doesn't affect the Oak
Park store in any way, shape or form:
Mastrangelo said.
Ted and Danny Jabbori own the Oak
Park store, which opened as kosher in
August 2003 and is supervised by the
Council of Orthodox Rabbis of Greater
Detroit in Southfield (the Vaad). Once
a non-kosher Dunkin' Donuts, the
Jabbori brothers, who are Chaldean,
made it a kosher venue after they were
approached by the nearby kosher-
observant community. They joined
with the Jewish community, which
rallied for support of Dunkin' Donuts
to allow the store to become kosher
31/2 years ago.
While Ted Jabbori said they have
had no request from the corporate
office to make any changes involving
their kosher status, he said, "If they
do, and if we have to fight them, then
we will fight them together with the
community." ___; 7