Kivo
Closed
Regular Hours
Monday to Thursday
LUNCH:11:00 AM - 02:00 PM
DINNER:05:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Friday
LUNCH:11:00 AM - 02:00 PM
DINNER:Closed
Saturday
Closed
Sunday
LUNCH:11:00 AM - 02:00 PM
DINNER:05:00 PM - 08:00 PM
653 Race Avenue
- Kivo offers kosher, halal and vegan dining options at the dining hall. Kivo offers a variety of both Meat (Glatt) and Parve items, and Trellis at Kivo offers only vegan recipes for those who keep a strictly plant-based and kosher diet.
- Kivo is overseen by Mashgiach David Shaffier, who graduated from the Talmudic seminary of Los Angeles and attended college in Jerusalem. He has specialized Rabbinic ordination in the Jewish Laws of Kosher slaughter and meat production, and has held several culinary and Mashgiach jobs in Israel and America. He is assisted by a second on-site Mashgiach, Talia Engel.
- Star-K, an internationally recognized kosher food certification agency based in Baltimore, supervises the kosher food production at Kivo, with the Mashgiach serving as the on-site Chef Manager. Mashgiach is Hebrew for supervisor, or literally “one who watches.” It’s the term used in kosher supervision to refer to the onsite certifying agency representative that supervises production and ensures that everything is done in accordance with kosher laws. The Mashgiach ensures the kosher status of everything we serve, and maintains all of Star-K’s standards and policies, including separate kosher meat and kosher dairy kitchens. He also is responsible for day-to-day operations of Kivo and kosher catering, including things like ordering, hiring, safety and serving delicious kosher food.
- Not only is all of the food served at Kivo kosher, it is also halal certified. At this station only, we guarantee that all of the food served meets all halal standards at the time it is served.
- Kivo has Etimad Halal Certification. Etimad works with Star-K and other kosher certifying agencies, as all meat that is certified kosher also meets halal standards. The additional measure we take at Kivo to ensure the kosher program is also halal is to ensure there are no alcohol products in any of the ingredients we use.
- All employees at Kivo are trained in the rules for kosher and halal production, receiving a handbook and special training from our Mashgiach. All of the food at Kivo follows the same HACCP food safety standards of any of our kitchens, including monitoring temperatures and enforcing sanitation standards.
- Kivo offers take-away catering for community and off-campus events, and can provide individual kosher meals for any event on campus if requested. In this way, students who keep kosher can fully participate in any event on campus that serves food or refreshments.
- On Shabbat and holidays when Kivo is closed, there is a robust program that happens in Chabad on campus and at the Hillel on campus. Kosher Shabbat and holiday meals are hosted by both organizations. Kosher food requests for times when Kivo is closed (Shabbat and holidays) need to be made directly to one of the Mashgiachs in Kivo.
- Kivo integrates with holiday observances. For example, during Ramadan, we plan the dinner schedule around the end of the fast, ensuring that we remain open later and providing plenty of food and time for students to break their fast.
- Everyone is welcome to eat the food in Kivo, and eat in the Kivo dining area. You are also welcome to eat any of your food items in Kivo. However, to be absolutely certain that there is no potential for non-kosher items to come in contact with kosher items, we request that you keep all plates, glasses, utensils, and especially food, away from and off the counters in Kivo. Additionally, as Kivo is the area in the dining hall where people with other special dietary needs or allergies can go to have these needs met, we ask that items be kept off the counters so that we can assure the people who fall into this category, that they are 100% safe in eating the items on the Kivo menu that meet their particular needs.
- Kivo is open to outside visitors looking for kosher food in Lancaster.
- Menu items at Kivo and the Restaurants at Ben Franklin are prepared using recipes and ingredients that do not contain tree nuts or peanuts but we cannot control exposure to tree nuts or peanuts in the manufacturing process. All recipes are prepared in a facility that also prepares recipes with allergens such as soy, egg, fish, shellfish, wheat and gluten. In general, menu items prepared at the Restaurants at Ben Franklin are prepared using recipes and ingredients that do not contain tree nuts or peanuts but we cannot control exposure to tree nuts or peanuts in the manufacturing process.
Normal Hours
Closed
Kivo
- Kivo offers kosher, halal and vegan dining options at the dining hall. Kivo offers a variety of both Meat (Glatt) and Parve items, and Trellis at Kivo offers only vegan recipes for those who keep a strictly plant-based and kosher diet.
- Kivo is overseen by Mashgiach David Shaffier, who graduated from the Talmudic seminary of Los Angeles and attended college in Jerusalem. He has specialized Rabbinic ordination in the Jewish Laws of Kosher slaughter and meat production, and has held several culinary and Mashgiach jobs in Israel and America. He is assisted by a second on-site Mashgiach, Talia Engel.
- Star-K, an internationally recognized kosher food certification agency based in Baltimore, supervises the kosher food production at Kivo, with the Mashgiach serving as the on-site Chef Manager. Mashgiach is Hebrew for supervisor, or literally “one who watches.” It’s the term used in kosher supervision to refer to the onsite certifying agency representative that supervises production and ensures that everything is done in accordance with kosher laws. The Mashgiach ensures the kosher status of everything we serve, and maintains all of Star-K’s standards and policies, including separate kosher meat and kosher dairy kitchens. He also is responsible for day-to-day operations of Kivo and kosher catering, including things like ordering, hiring, safety and serving delicious kosher food.
- Not only is all of the food served at Kivo kosher, it is also halal certified. At this station only, we guarantee that all of the food served meets all halal standards at the time it is served.
- Kivo has Etimad Halal Certification. Etimad works with Star-K and other kosher certifying agencies, as all meat that is certified kosher also meets halal standards. The additional measure we take at Kivo to ensure the kosher program is also halal is to ensure there are no alcohol products in any of the ingredients we use.
- All employees at Kivo are trained in the rules for kosher and halal production, receiving a handbook and special training from our Mashgiach. All of the food at Kivo follows the same HACCP food safety standards of any of our kitchens, including monitoring temperatures and enforcing sanitation standards.
- Kivo offers take-away catering for community and off-campus events, and can provide individual kosher meals for any event on campus if requested. In this way, students who keep kosher can fully participate in any event on campus that serves food or refreshments.
- On Shabbat and holidays when Kivo is closed, there is a robust program that happens in Chabad on campus and at the Hillel on campus. Kosher Shabbat and holiday meals are hosted by both organizations. Kosher food requests for times when Kivo is closed (Shabbat and holidays) need to be made directly to one of the Mashgiachs in Kivo.
- Kivo integrates with holiday observances. For example, during Ramadan, we plan the dinner schedule around the end of the fast, ensuring that we remain open later and providing plenty of food and time for students to break their fast.
- Everyone is welcome to eat the food in Kivo, and eat in the Kivo dining area. You are also welcome to eat any of your food items in Kivo. However, to be absolutely certain that there is no potential for non-kosher items to come in contact with kosher items, we request that you keep all plates, glasses, utensils, and especially food, away from and off the counters in Kivo. Additionally, as Kivo is the area in the dining hall where people with other special dietary needs or allergies can go to have these needs met, we ask that items be kept off the counters so that we can assure the people who fall into this category, that they are 100% safe in eating the items on the Kivo menu that meet their particular needs.
- Kivo is open to outside visitors looking for kosher food in Lancaster.
- Menu items at Kivo and the Restaurants at Ben Franklin are prepared using recipes and ingredients that do not contain tree nuts or peanuts but we cannot control exposure to tree nuts or peanuts in the manufacturing process. All recipes are prepared in a facility that also prepares recipes with allergens such as soy, egg, fish, shellfish, wheat and gluten. In general, menu items prepared at the Restaurants at Ben Franklin are prepared using recipes and ingredients that do not contain tree nuts or peanuts but we cannot control exposure to tree nuts or peanuts in the manufacturing process.
653 Race Avenue