R’ Kuber is the rav of a shul in the town of Telz Stone outside of Yerushalayim but more important for purposes of this article, he is one of the top kashruth experts in EY who worked for many years at the OU. His biggest complaint over many years has been the chronic screw-ups associated with the widespread practice of a catering firm with otherwise top of the line chassideshe hashgacha (the gold standard) delivering food for an event held at some shul or simcha hall where there is no onsite mashgiach to supervise the preparation and serving of that food to the attendees. He has argued that in most cases, the caterer should simply refuse to do business with parties who have not provided for real time hashgacha of the food service. He has noted that in the issue is almost always a desire to save the cost of paying a mashgiach to monitor the simcha, sometimes using the excuse that there will be chashuve rabbonim and knowledgeable askanim attending and thus “nothing bad can happen”
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