{"id":69806,"date":"2025-12-24T20:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T20:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/69806\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T20:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T20:09:07","slug":"lines-out-the-door-for-christmas-eve-food-pickups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/69806\/","title":{"rendered":"Lines out the door for Christmas Eve food pickups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some businesses along Pittston Ave in Scranton saw folks in half-block-long lines, all waiting to pick up food for Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 This Christmas Eve, along Pittston Avenue in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scranton,<\/a> there are lines of people, all waiting for the &#8220;best bakery in all of Scranton, Pennsylvania, this is the place to go, said Ray Boinske of Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>With a dozen customers inside and dozens of others outside, Lynn Sandy\u2019s bakery was packed full of people eagerly waiting to make their Christmas Eve just a little bit sweeter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think I&#8217;m getting that, I think they call it a Christmas log roll, or something like that, so yeah, I just know that this is the best place and that&#8217;s where they ordered it from, so I was the gopher to go get it,\u201d said Boinske.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Best place to buy the snacks for the Christmas Day and Christmas Eve. You get up in the morning, you get a cup of coffee, have some desserts, whatever you want to eat for breakfast, kids love it, we&#8217;ve been coming here for years,\u201d said Tom Tierney from Carbondale.<\/p>\n<p>A long line at Lynn Sandy\u2019s during the holidays is nothing new.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It always is long. During Thanksgiving, the line was the opposite way, but just as long. That just goes to show how good they are,\u201d said Tierney.<\/p>\n<p>Lynn Sandy\u2019s wasn&#8217;t the only busy business on Pittston Ave; South Side Seafood&#8217;s been seeing crowds for days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Majority of us have been here since 6 a.m. already this morning, it&#8217;s 9:30 right now, and we&#8217;ve already done about a hundred customers. Yesterday was the 23rd, probably our busiest day of the year; the line was down the road, did over 600 customers,\u201d said Ryne Luce, an employee at South Side Seafood.<\/p>\n<p>Customers are all picking up seafood to make their holiday traditions complete.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Actually, our freezer broke, so we have to come and rebuy everything again, and Christmas Eve is at our house tonight, so we&#8217;re going to enjoy it with our family,\u201d said Nick Costantino from Pittston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some businesses along Pittston Ave in Scranton saw folks in half-block-long lines, all waiting to pick up food&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-69806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}