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• JANDI OCEANSIDE FULL

With an accounting degree from the University of Albany, Howard did a line-by-line analysis of the business. A store that was in business 16 years wasn’t running efficiently. My mother wanted to serve healthy food but was clueless about the business side. My father passed shortly after the first store opened.

JANDI OCEANSIDE FULL

“I came onboard in 1992 full time to help my mother Judy who was carrying the store with my younger brother Myles. “ My mother-in-law was a customer for years and years before introducing me to her daughter in 2002. On a personal note, that newer location was where Howard formed a bond with one of his loyal customers, a frum woman from Long Beach, who years later would become Howard’s mother in law. In 1986, they moved to a second location in the Lincoln Shopping Center, 1700 square feet, complete with a full kitchen which enabled the chef to create unique dishes in addition to the soups and sandwiches that were the staple of Jandis prepared foods in its earlier years. Now we are the largest user on Long Island, perhaps even on the east coast, “ says Howard Chasner. We were the first store on Long Island to serve wheat grass. We had a two door refrigerator, and a two door freezer back then. We sold granola, supplements, and tofu scooped out of a bucket. “We were one of the three health food stores on Long Island. What started in 1976 as a small 900 foot store in the Lincoln Shopping Center in Oceanside has morphed a few times over the years both in size, and customer base, resulting in a 6,000 foot modern, impeccably clean upscale market, complete with a Kosher eatery under rabbinical supervision. Howard Chasner, Jandi’s owner, grew up working in the store which bears the condensed version of his parents names, Judy and Irving, J and I, hence JANDIS.

At Jandi’s, the Chasner family has been not only wishing good health for their customers, but promoting healthy lifestyles for over 26 years.

As Rosh Hashanah approaches, greetings of good health for the coming year are exchanged with family, friends, colleagues, and neighbors.