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The revamped interior of Tasty
Twisters, which merges on Oct. 18
with I Want Moore Bakery.

Hakeem Moore and
Benjamin Tehrani
Photos courtesy of I Want Moore Bakery
iwantmoorebakery.com. Moore said business was
really picking up earlier this
year, and then the pandemic
hit. The bakery lost as much as
80% of its wholesale business.

“Synagogues and schools
were our primary clients, and
they weren’t open or having
events,” he said.

I Want Moore Bakery needed
a change in plans. And before
he retired to Israel, Rabbi
Naftoli Eisemann, who served
as the kashrus administrator
for Community Kashrus of
Philadelphia (Keystone-K), put
the bakery in touch with Tasty
Twisters, which is also certified
by Keystone-K.

“We didn’t know they were
this close to us,” Moore said.

“They were just minutes from us.”
Aside from pretzels and a
few other items, the store will
carry I Want Moore’s nondairy/
pareve and dairy pastries, as
well as coffee, with delivery
available through Uber Eats
and GrubHub.

“We’re going to start slowly
just to see how it goes,” Louca
said, noting that customer
feedback will determine how
the merged bakeries evolve.

If the partnership goes well, the
product mix might be expanded
and the small shop remodeled.

“It seems like people
are very interested and very
JEWISHEXPONENT.COM excited,” Louca said. “I get a lot
of positive comments.”
Tasty Twisters’ web site said
the business is family-owned
and operated, with “roots tracing
back to the early 1900s both in
the United States and Europe.”
Tehrani and Moore’s
partnership developed in a
roundabout way.

After the Iranian Revolution
in 1979, Tehrani moved to
Pennsylvania, where a brother
lived. Eventually, he and two
brothers started a rug business.

After more than 40 years of
running Tehrani Brothers
Oriental Rugs, Tehrani wanted a
change, so he became a mashgiach.

Moore, meanwhile, gradu-
ated from the Art Institute of
Philadelphia in 2010, then worked
for a series of bakeries, becoming
interested in the idea of one day
having his own establishment. He
had his first experience making
kosher baked goods at Six Points
Kosher Events in King of Prussia.

Moore and Tehrani met at
the since-closed Dairy Express
in Merion Station, where
Tehrani worked as a mashgiach.

That’s where the two met,
starting an improbable chain of
events, with Moore handling the
baking and Tehrani overseeing
the business side. l
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