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Yeshivas
BMG- Biggest Yeshiva in the USA and perhaps the world.
https://www.bmg.edu/

Restaurants

Comprehensive list of Lakewood Restaurants here

Entree http://entreerestaurant.com - Best upscale meat place with great food and service 
Revolve- A new small upscale nice and different meat place.
Seared - Opened 2023
Tomahawk -
Lampost -
Loft - Opened 2024
Southside Smokehouse
CharQ - By Eagle Ridge Golf Course
Estreia - Elegant restaurant
Ottimo  https://www.ottimocafe.com/ best and nicest dairy restaurant
cafotteria http://cafotteria.com/ nice dairy restaurant/cafe modern style
www.paninicafelakewood.com nice small restaurant , delicious food
Pizzano- A pizza store with nice sit down area also has a large dairy menu ( served to table )
Upper Crust- A nice sit down area with large dairy menu ( Full waiter service )

Fast Food
Meat
Glatt Bite- Massive menu with fast service and delicious American and Chinese food. Newly renovated
D'LUX- Massive menu with fast service. American, Chinese, and sushi
Yussies- Deli and sandwiches. Delicious fries.
Glatt Gourmet- best homemade take out food (also sandwiches and chinese)
Yapchik- Nice menu great homemade take out, or eat in, best shabbes meat selection
Bun- Nice new place, great burgers
Sushi Express- sushi and Chinese, they deliver 732-901-7874
South Side Sandwich Shop- Fast-food joint Extensive sandwich menu. Has delicious smoked Ribs/Lamb brisket and chicken. Friendly service.
Snaps- Fast food in Westgate
Mikes Chicken Crunchers - variety of fried chicken and sandwiches
Dairy
Circa - Clean pizza store/cafe with large menu + sushi.
Pizza Place- A pizza store with a large dairy menu and very nice setting located in WestGate 732.730.1144
Pizza Plus, 4th st btwn Clifton and Lexington. Original Lakewood pizza store. Foods great. Best pizza around
J2- Pizza and sushi in Shoprite plaza. Pizza is good, great sushi. Service is not good.
Village Pizza (2 locatioons) - Pizza store with a dairy menu

Bagel Nosh - Legendary bagel store, needs no introduction
4 Corners (4 locations) , bagel store+ sushi ]
Coffee
French Press - Freshly Roasted exotic coffee beans. Ground and brewed on demand by the cup. Standard method is pour over, but you can request just about any. Ask which brand are freshest.

Shuls
Kol Shimshon - fixed mincha and maariv every 15 minutes at peak times otherwise every 1/2 hour
West Gate - Maariv every 20 minutes from 8-12
Satmar- Forest and 5th
Chestnut - Another good option for Shachris (until 9) if you're on the South side of the lake (and for shkiya mincha-maariv). 105 Chestnut Street Corner of Tiffany Lane

Kosher Grocery and Supermarkets
Jerusalem Glatt: 515 River Ave  Phone: (732) 370-6695
Kosher West: 136 Hillside Blvd
NPGS  - 152 James Street, 231 Main Street, and 2080 W County Line
Super Stop - 1161 River Ave and 416 Cedarbridge
Foodex -  407 Princeton Ave
Shloimys  - 1750 Clifton Ave
Gormet Glatt - 1700 Madison Ave
Kosher Villiage - 911 E County Line
Jerusalem Glatt  - 515 River Ave
Corner of 2nd - 132 2nd Street
Kollel Food Store - 403 Clifton
Aisle 9 -  951 Madison
Picnic - 357 Squankum RIP 6.20.2021
Evergreen
Gourmet Glatt South
BINGO
Feldman’s
Yankel’s
Seasons
Chick-Chock

Clothing

Men
His Place- 435 Clifton Ave
Emporio- 1700 Madison Ave
Marcy's- NEW LOCATION- 10 America Ave

Women
Girls on Glen- 120 Hillside Blvd
Gowns By Shevy(you can also sell and rent out your sister/mother of the bride gowns here)
Zinelli- 175 E Kennedy Blvd
Heads of Class- 916 River Ave

Periodicals

Newspapers
The Lakewood Shopper

Magazines
The Voice of Lakewood

Advertising only
The Clip It coupon card732-231-2692 - Coupon card that comes in back of the BP

BP weekly

Lakewood weekly

Masa Umatan (Has popular lists like freebay, Rental list http://masaumatan.com/e96_rentals.html, and playgroup list)

Residential Rental listings
http://masaumatan.com/MasaRentals.pdf
rental list http://masaumatan.com/e96_rentals.html

https://www.listingsinlakewood.com/

Keilim Mikva:

11th st mikva, -till 4pm
Hertzberg, 121 E 9th bet. Park and East end. -On left side of house after entrance to shul.
DB Electronics open 24hrs in the back ( Yt seasons only for costumers)
The Westview Shop
Center Of Town (Gourmet Glatt plaza)
Amazing Savings
Yesodei Court


Car Repairs

https://greaterlakewood.com/lakewood-mobile-mechanics-diagnose-and-fix-cars-at-owners-homes/

Betzalel Brezner 845-558-5547
Absolute cheapest prices, great work
@S209: I was very satisfied, used him twice
Tell him you saw it on dansdeals forums! :)

Reuven & Sons Auto Repair
40 Chestnut street
From transmissions to brakes.
Honest prices. Quick service
848-222-1104
New mechanic in town. 25 years experience, moved from Brooklyn.
Tell him you saw it on Dansdeals.

Brakes and Batteries
Moshe Levy will come to you.  848-210-3640
Lipas

Body Work
AllState Collision (Ovadia Levine) 732-730-0220

Plumbers

Zalman Charloff- Z R Plumbing. Six four six-946-2903 (recommended by S209 and by YitzyS)

HVAC
Izzy Zerken - AMZ Heating and Cooling (recommended by S209)

Flowers

White Ribbon Florist - Weddings, events, and stunning Shabbos flowers. @S209

Phone Repairs

Lg Exalt Repairs- 347-201-2501 (Call or Text)
Matis Geesis - 732 523-0033

Note that this list is far from exhaustive.


To Do - Parks & Recreational Ideas:

http://www.oceancountyparks.org/

Transportation
Rockshire Transit - Lakewood/Monsey - 845-352-8543
Midtown Bus - see this post by @Marks
See this post for other options to Manhattan

Auto Sales
Toms River Auto Sales
Lakewood Auto Sales
Priority
iCar
Ami Katz
MY Auto Sales
Auto Discounters
Car Shadchan
Lakewood Car Finder
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Re: Lakewood NJ Master Thread
« Reply #21800 on: August 11, 2022, 08:49:29 PM »
Any Lakewood restaurants have outdoor seating?

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« Reply #21801 on: August 11, 2022, 09:25:16 PM »
Any Lakewood restaurants have outdoor seating?

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Re: Lakewood NJ Master Thread
« Reply #21802 on: August 11, 2022, 09:41:58 PM »
Anyone have the West Gate Shacharis schedule, or at least know when the last minyan is?
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Feelings don't care about your facts

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« Reply #21805 on: August 11, 2022, 10:15:15 PM »
Any Lakewood restaurants have outdoor seating?
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« Reply #21806 on: August 11, 2022, 10:15:47 PM »
Any Lakewood restaurants have outdoor seating?
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« Reply #21807 on: August 12, 2022, 11:10:04 AM »
Any recommendations for non jewish barbershop near the 70?

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« Reply #21808 on: August 14, 2022, 01:03:53 AM »
Should local stores be called out for charging 50-60% more on certain items than what items are actually worth? I've received GC as a gift so I have to redeem in this specific store, besides for not answering phone and attitude this store has, how about charging 50% more than Amazon for a $400 item.

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« Reply #21809 on: August 14, 2022, 01:07:55 AM »
Should local stores be called out for charging 50-60% more on certain items than what items are actually worth? I've received GC as a gift so I have to redeem in this specific store, besides for not answering phone and attitude this store has, how about charging 50% more than Amazon for a $400 item.
And you can't use the GC for sale items...

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« Reply #21810 on: August 14, 2022, 01:10:58 AM »
I've also witness stores selling items from Israel for 100-150% or $2,000 more than worth because people aren't aware that they can call up the manufacturer in Israel and have them ship this item for free.

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« Reply #21811 on: August 14, 2022, 01:12:47 AM »
And you can't use the GC for sale items...
Yup, ridiculous. They just got paid cash from person who bought the GC. I can't comprehend.

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« Reply #21812 on: August 14, 2022, 06:59:43 PM »
Lol yeah pretty much just figuring if I even have another option (spoiler: likely not).
(Going to put more info in the Lakewood thread.)

Continuing the Lakewood specific part here

$500 for younger 2s, 9:30-3. This was after she told us the price would likely be $420-$430, when we initially registered, but can't make a big deal about that because she said she's 100% not sure. Shrinkflation apparently applies to playgroups too.

The Lakewood corporate offices mostly still haven't adjusted the salaries of existing employees for inflation, so expect a lot of employee movement over the next half year.

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« Reply #21813 on: August 14, 2022, 08:30:03 PM »
Continuing the Lakewood specific part here

$500 for younger 2s, 9:30-3. This was after she told us the price would likely be $420-$430, when we initially registered, but can't make a big deal about that because she said she's 100% not sure. Shrinkflation apparently applies to playgroups too.

The Lakewood corporate offices mostly still haven't adjusted the salaries of existing employees for inflation, so expect a lot of employee movement over the next half year.
Trying to figure out why babysitters now take close to $800 a month when playgroup is half the price.

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« Reply #21814 on: August 14, 2022, 08:48:19 PM »
Trying to figure out why babysitters now take close to $800 a month when playgroup is half the price.
With more than double the amount of kids
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« Reply #21815 on: August 14, 2022, 08:52:01 PM »
With more than double the amount of kids
That's the answer ;)

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Re: Lakewood NJ Master Thread
« Reply #21816 on: August 14, 2022, 10:47:15 PM »
Continuing the Lakewood specific part here
This should be a thread of its own.

$500 for younger 2s, 9:30-3. This was after she told us the price would likely be $420-$430, when we initially registered, but can't make a big deal about that because she said she's 100% not sure. Shrinkflation apparently applies to playgroups too.

The Lakewood corporate offices mostly still haven't adjusted the salaries of existing employees for inflation, so expect a lot of employee movement over the next half year.

If she didn't change/shorten her hours, it's not shrinkflation. It's raising the price to keep up with inflation.

Playgroups in Lakewood is the trickiest/most insane/ridiculous businesses to run.

The Morah needs to commit her hours, location, and price, a year in advance! This is a very unpractical model for the morah and the registrants since many people move to a different area during the 12 month period between registration and the school year.
Additionally, parents don't know yet whether their kid will need to be kept back to repeat the same age group for another year.
Additionally, it makes no sense for the morah to be busy with registration for the next year, the day she starts teaching the current school year.

On top of that, the morah needs to find an assistant a year in advance!

In which other industry does the service provider commit to something a year in advance for no reason?!!

It makes no sense.

The reason why many morahs changed their price is because their cost went up across the board. Rent, supplies, cost of assistant, cost of substitute, and of course their own expenses, so they gave themselves a raise.

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Re: Lakewood NJ Master Thread
« Reply #21817 on: August 14, 2022, 11:07:03 PM »
This should be a thread of its own.

If she didn't change/shorten her hours, it's not shrinkflation. It's raising the price to keep up with inflation.

Playgroups in Lakewood is the trickiest/most insane/ridiculous businesses to run.

The Morah needs to commit her hours, location, and price, a year in advance! This is a very unpractical model for the morah and the registrants since many people move to a different area during the 12 month period between registration and the school year.
Additionally, parents don't know yet whether their kid will need to be kept back to repeat the same age group for another year.
Additionally, it makes no sense for the morah to be busy with registration for the next year, the day she starts teaching the current school year.

On top of that, the morah needs to find an assistant a year in advance!

In which other industry does the service provider commit to something a year in advance for no reason?!!

It makes no sense.

The reason why many morahs changed their price is because their cost went up across the board. Rent, supplies, cost of assistant, cost of substitute, and of course their own expenses, so they gave themselves a raise.

/EndRant
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I'm not at all trying to say that it's not hard being a morah, but the specific point you are harping on is something that many see as the fault of morahs, or at least the fault of SOME morahs. If every morah would say that they are not taking any registration until after Pesach, or another late date, there would be no need for any commitments. But since if you wait until after Sukkos you are in danger of losing your slot, everyone books so far in advance...

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Re: Lakewood NJ Master Thread
« Reply #21818 on: August 14, 2022, 11:19:00 PM »
I'm not at all trying to say that it's not hard being a morah, but the specific point you are harping on is something that many see as the fault of morahs, or at least the fault of SOME morahs. If every morah would say that they are not taking any registration until after Pesach, or another late date, there would be no need for any commitments. But since if you wait until after Sukkos you are in danger of losing your slot, everyone books so far in advance...
Great point.

So let me give you a history lesson. There was a women by the name of Mrs. Zivah Kriger A'H.
( https://matzav.com/mrs-ziva-kriger-ah/ )

She was very involved in this aspect of playgroups and she set the registration opening date as tu bshvat. No playgroup took registration prior to tu bishvat.

Unfortunately she was nifter at a very young age and no one filled her role in the various aspects of chinuch that she was involved in. The very next year, someone inserted an ANONYMOUS full page advertisement in the BP weekly, and proclaimed "the tu bshvat registration date is no longer in effect. Registration for playroups will now start on isru chag succos"

This is where the mess started.

Now, obviously the morahs can band together and make whatever start date they want. Tu Bshvat, after pesach, shavous, etc. But without leadership it's very difficult to get every morah on board because there will always be some morahs that want to have their registration booked up early (for various reasons).
As long as some morahs are doing, it will be very difficult for others to hold off. One of the reasons is because parents rather register at the playgroup that opens earlier because they are concerned that maybe they won't get a slot in the playgroup that's opening later in the season, and then they will be stuck.




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Re: Lakewood NJ Master Thread
« Reply #21819 on: August 14, 2022, 11:24:46 PM »
Great point.

So let me give you a history lesson. There was a women by the name of Mrs. Zivah Kriger A'H.
( https://matzav.com/mrs-ziva-kriger-ah/ )

She was very involved in this aspect of playgroups and she set the registration opening date as tu bshvat. No playgroup took registration prior to tu bishvat.

Unfortunately she was nifter at a very young age and no one filled her role in the various aspects of chinuch that she was involved in. The very next year, someone inserted an ANONYMOUS full page advertisement in the BP weekly, and proclaimed "the tu bshvat registration date is no longer in effect. Registration for playroups will now start on isru chag succos"

This is where the mess started.

Now, obviously the morahs can band together and make whatever start date they want. Tu Bshvat, after pesach, shavous, etc. But without leadership it's very difficult to get every morah on board because there will always be some morahs that want to have their registration booked up early (for various reasons).
As long as some morahs are doing, it will be very difficult for others to hold off. One of the reasons is because parents rather register at the playgroup that opens earlier because they are concerned that maybe they won't get a slot in the playgroup that's opening later in the season, and then they will be stuck.
Indeed. This is not the fault of any single morah. If one morah decides to hold off, she can be left without any kids. And it's very hard to be a community organizer. Thinking about it, I can't say it's the morah's faults any more than the parents. But in popular perception, many like to take it out on the morahs for this point.

That being the case, my marketing team doesn't think that this should be Exhibit A in a case of defending morah's for price increases, being that it polls very low. Try instead to stress the fact that expenses skyrocketed, and also, if anyone is not convinced that morahs deserve every penny they make, just try staying home with your kids for a few days...