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(IsraelNN.com) Two entrepreneurs have set up the first American Glatt Kosher vending machine at the Hackensack University Medical center in New Jersey, The New York Times reported. "Glatt" is a term referring to kosher supervision that is stricter than usual.

Hot Nosh 24/6, a name dreamed up by business partners Doron Fetman and Alan Cohnen, gives customers choice between cheese pizzas, mozzarella sticks and onion rings. They also plan to sell grilled hot dogs in a separate vending machine in order to maintain the kosher separation of meat and milk. Although the name "24/6" implies it should be used on six days and allowed to rest on the Sabbath, the machine will not be turned off for the seventh day.

The businessmen want to install 2,000 machines at schools, hospitals ballparks, malls and army bases across the country. If you’re in Brooklyn and you eat kosher, it’s no problem," said the project's backer, Ruby Azrak. “But if an Orthodox Jew is stuck in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where are you going to eat?"