#MobileIceCreamCart by #CNelsonMfg for a great client Humphry Slocombe in SF, CA.
#HumphrySlocombe understands the value of #takingtheirBrandtotheStreets. Do you?
Call me today and let’s get you …..on the streets$$
Behind the current Price Chopper is working hard to uncover a beautiful new re-imaged updated store, named, Market Bistro by Price Chopper. www.GeorgeDunlap.com and www.CNelson.com proud to be chosen to team up with the Price Chopper team and provide upgraded quality equipment and start-up services.
C. Nelson delivered, December 17, 2013, a 16dip ice cream dipping cabinet for the first Market Bistro by Price Chopper concept store in Latham, NY. C. Nelson developed a first of its kind for this new concept store. Price Chopper searched for a partner supplier and found it in Kelley Smith at C. Nelson Mfg., Company in Oak Harbor, OH, USA. Kelley Smith designed this cabinet for the specific needs of Price Chopper.
Delivering a 16dip by www.cnelson.com, dipping cabinet December 17, 2013.
Ready and Waiting for the Mill work to be delivered Friday. Hold tight it’s going to look beautiful when finished
Stay tuned for details on how (the Latham, NY store) Price Chopper re-images and upgrades the retail grocery shopping experience for their customers.
George Dunlap can be contacted at: George@GeorgeDunlap.com of cell at 614-378-8466
Ever since when the Italians introduced Gelato to the US market it has been a hit in most major cities across the USA. Gelato has not hit the rural market as well. Finally from C. Nelson there is a ice cream dipping cabinet that will serve up both types of cool creamy treats in one dipping cabinet. This split style cabinet is great for those operators who want to introduce Gelato to their customers but do not want to invest in a full blown Gelato cabinet. They are very costly and hard to work with.
C. Nelson introduces the split Gelato & Ice Cream dipping cabinet, 8dip-hv serving Gelato & Ice Cream. The 8dip-hv is setup to display 6, 4-liter pans, and 4 3-gallon ice cream tubs. Now that is a great bargain for an operator who wants to sell both quality gelato and ice creams.
The C. Nelson 8 dip-hv cabinet is easy to operate and maintain and his very simple to keep clean. The inside of the cabinet is constructed with easy to clean stainless-steel side walls, digital temp control, led lighting, and the always seamed and wielded corners. The C. Nelson also features a steel frame below the freezer box keeping it structurally solid for years of maintenance free operation. Call C. Nelson today for a quote.
This review by George Dunlap, George@GeorgeDunlap.com , 614-378-8466
Just imagine a line of excited customers in front of your original Airstream Ice Cream trailer. The trailer is an eye-catcher; with your product the Airstream will enhance the customer’s experience. Nice way to promote a store growth campaign or new product release.
C. Nelson Mfg., Co will finish off the inside of the Airstream to their needs. The trailer will be designed to operate with or without power using the C. Nelson exclusive ice cream cold-plate technology. The operator can dip ice cream at Fairs, School functions, Church festivals, Grocery stores, Ball Park events and not have to worry if electricity is available. The Airstream will catch their eye and your product will bring them back time and again. What a way to create marketing buzz about your product or your brand.
Contact me today George@GeorgeDunlap.com for details.
There is nothing like seeing the choices of ice cream before your order. Eric Gerber knocked a hole in his ice cream shop in Bryan, OH last week so he can let his customers SEE their ice cream choices. Eric makes all his ice cream with his homemade recipes and wants his customer to see their choices. www.Cnelson.com builds just the cabinet for that purpose. The 16dipHV Curved glass cabinet satisfies Eric’s needs. stay tuned to see the cabinet filled with Eric’s great tasting ice creams on opening day.
Enlarged show window to receive the 16 hole dipping cabinet
Why try to read a menu board when you can see Eric’s homemade ice creams.This is just the beginning. Come back next week for his grand opening of this new visual presentation filled with ice creams.
Their eyes tell the story
C. Nelson Mfg., Company, Oak Harbor, Ohio, USA, introduced their first Hi-Vis dipping cabinet in the summer of 2008 and Nelson has not looked back since. According to Kelley Smith, Owner and Head Engineer, at C. Nelson Mfg., “the goal of this new style cabinet was to bring the customer closer to the ice cream and enhance their buying experience”. The success of this new line of ice cream dipping cabinets has increased C. Nelson’s exposure to dairies and ice cream chains around the world.
Below is a brief summary of 3 different Ohio, USA, customers and the unique ways they designed their ice cream dipping front counters. All three have experienced increased ice cream sales and increased customer satisfaction. They all wanted an updated and unique look to their ice cream parlor areas. Their continued purchase of these newly designed cabinets has proven Kelley Smith 100% right on target.
Clean front look cabinets only
Eric Gerber started in the ice cream business with a run down tired looking former Dairy Queen store on the outskirts of Defiance, Ohio, March 1999. Eric’s journey to learn the business and how to make quality ice cream took him down a 13 year path of trial-and-error. Eric started with one ice cream store and today he owns 4 shops, with #5 on the drawing board, all serving quality hand dipped ice cream. In his new shop Eric wanted to feature his family’s recipes of homemade ice creams, great tasting coffees and teas, and delicious hot grilled sandwiches & flat breads. Eric opened his new store late summer 2012 with time to work out the kinks for the Christmas holiday season.
Eric picked the 16diphv gelato style dipping cabinet from C. Nelson because they allowed his customers to get up-front-and-personal with his homemade ice creams. Eric wanted his customers to really see his quality ice creams before they made up their minds. Eric chose the clean white and open look for his front counter. Eric wanted the ice cream dipping cabinets to be the focal point showing off his ice creams like diamond rings in a jewelry case at the jewelry store. The cases became part of the front counter and connected with an ice cream cake & novelty display case. This layout also allowed the cabinets to breathe in cool unrestricted air though the compressor housing keeping the cabinets cool and running efficiently. Eric’s front counter is all about the homemade ice cream presentation; it is about showing off his ice cream. Eric told me many times while we were designing his new store, “why would I want to hide all these great looking ice creams?” Eric is happy to report that his sales have proved him right$. His customers buy with their eyes and the C. Nelson cabinet makes that happen best!
Faux wall front/Hi-Vis dipping cabinets with bench and bottom air duct
Mike and Peter Mitchell started with their first store in Cleveland in 1999 and today they have over 8 stores. Their stores currently use a 16diphv and a 12diphv C. Nelson cabinet for dipped ice cream sales as well as several BD cabinets for ice cream storage and backup flavors.
The Mitchell brothers decided to go with a faux-wall counter built about 6 inches in front of the dipping cabinets, this allowed the cabinets to front breathe, allowing good air flow in and though the compressor housing area, keeping the cabinets cool and operating efficiently. As Mike told me, “it is important not to block the air flow of any of the ice cream cabinets they will not operate correctly”. Mitchells then built a bench area, over the faux front wall, where small children could stand and look into the ice cream cabinet, thus making their selection of their choice of ice cream a fun and exciting experience.
Mike and Pete love children and realized early on that it was key to keeping the children involved in the ice cream selection process, they wanted the children to feel that they are part of the Mitchell’s ice cream family. This design was a change from their first few stores and it has paid off with increased sales. They wanted their customers to have fun, enjoy the selection of ice cream, be part of the family, and wanted to increase sales of dipped ice cream. They achieved success on all of their goals. Mike told me years ago, “if we take care of our customers and involve them in the ice cream buying experience, they will take care of our needs” Mike and Peter were right. Today they are growing, having fun, and selling lots of wonderful tasting Mitchell’s homemade ice cream in their C. Nelson Hi-Vis dipping cabinets.
3 8diphv cabinets with facade panel to make look like built-in counter
rectangle ice cream boxes for scooping
In 1938 a local Cincinnati family started a small dairy with their focus on quality fresh milk, today they are distributing ice cream to 30 states and have over 300 ice cream parlor/neighborhood stores. UDF, as they are called by the locals, made the switch to C. Nelson Hi-Vis cabinets in the summer of 2008, UDF wanted the little children to be able to get close & seethe ice cream. The curved glass cabinets allowed their customers to really see their ice cream,
UDF fell in love with the new design after they tested their rectangle ice cream boxes in the Hi-Vis cabinets. Generally, a traditional ice cream cold wall cabinet will not work with boxed ice cream; there is no air-circulation inside the cabinet because of the tight fit. But C. Nelson once again met the challenge with the work of Kelley Smith and his engineering team, and designed their cabinets to work for those dairies that use rectangle shaped ice cream containers.
UDF designed their ice cream parlors using three 8diphv cabinets with a façade panel added to the front of the cabinets to give them a built-in counter look. The design concern of the façade was how to allow for air flow to keep the cabinets operating efficiently. As you can see, see picture, they used air vents in front of each of the
Good air flow
compressor openings and everything worked perfectly. Easy to clean and easy to operate were the service requirements Kelley Smith had in mind when he designed the Hi-Vis line of Gelato Style/Low Glass cabinets. The UDF folks loved how these cabinets “displayed” their ice cream and how easy they are to maintain. The entire ice cream parlor area resulted with an updated look simply by using the new C. Nelson ice cream Hi-Vis dipping cabinets. UDF was very pleased.
Gelato Style too!
C. Nelson introduced a new line of dipping cabinets that satisfies both the gelato and traditional ice cream dipping shops. The high visual display area of the ice cabinet and the ease of operation has been a big winner for all of C. Nelson’s customers no matter how small or how big. C. Nelson has designed new sundae and smoothie prep stations and is upgrading their entire line of dipping cabinets. Kelley Smith told me he wants to build the most energy efficient cabinets for the ice cream industry. He wants his newly designed cabinets to operate longer and provide his customers with a tool to increase sales at the store level. This newly designed High-Visual dipping cabinet is doing just that and the proof is in the increased sales for C. Nelson’s customers.
Traditional 3 gallon ice cream tubs
Contact me today for a digital plant tour and see what everyone is talking about.
GEORGE DUNLAP
www.GeorgeDunlap.com
614-378-8466
Friendly’s is taking “it” to the streets! This portable “Ice Cream Shoppe” cart was designed by the team at C. Nelson to satisfy the marketing needs of an old favorite New England ice cream company.
Server Products 2/3rd size jars & pumps allows the cart operator an expanded variety of toppings in a compact work space.
This cart offers a variety of topping choices; hot or cold, dry or wet, or just a great tasting scoop of your choice of ice creams. The sneeze guard separates the customers from the prep area, with hot and cold running water it is easy for the cart operator to wash their hands and keep the cart clean all day. With the use of the i.scoopshower the customer only uses water to clean scoops when needed and this saves water storage capacity at remote locations.
Once again C. Nelson has gone to Server Products for their 2/3rdline of jars, ladles, and pumps, this choice offers any operator an expanded number of toppings to make shakes, smoothies, or sundaes, in a very compact work space.
Operator’s side of cart with toppings, freezer, hot topping warmer and hot & cold water sink with scoop washer.
This project represents the types of solutions that C. Nelson has to offer to their customers around the world. This cart fits many of the customer needs for mobile seasonal or long term retail sales, with 3 sets of large easy to roll casters, this cart is easy to move-in and move-out of those short term retail-sales (malls, resorts, or those big box stores) locations. This cart can be used at new ice cream product roll outs at grocery stores serving up samples. Other uses for this type of cart are school sporting events, church festivals, state and country fairs, hospital or college snack shops, airport snack shops, corporate promotional events, or customer appreciation days. The C. Nelson carts are used to promote your brand anywhere ice cream lovers gather.
Today’s operators realize the need to “take their business to the streets”; C. Nelson offers a variety of sizes to choose from. C. Nelson starts with the basic CLT4NR line of carts and expands all the way up to the custom designed line of carts. C. Nelson carts can be designed around your brand or your product, so get started today.
C.Nelson Mfg., Co., Oak Harbor, Ohio, USA, is proud to introduce the newly updated BDxx-JR (BD4-JR “the new look video”) series of flavorrail freezers. C. Nelson Mfg., lead by Kelley Smith, President, and his design team manager Paul Cox, Plant Engineer, spent almost a year researching the Milk Shake & Burger market leaders. One such company is
BD4-JR showing the optional 9 Jars from Server Products, the 2/3rd size jars with lids and pumps, and the sliding access door for scooping ice cream, custard, or yogurt.
Fatburger, an existing customer based out of Southern California, with stores located around the world. Kelley Smith said Fatburger came to him and had a simple request; they wanted a well-built freezer free-standing or counter drop-in, with at least 6 traditional topping jars, a large work prep area, front breather compressor that would allow the freezer to be pushed all the way to the wall, and a company that was willing to stand behind their product with world-wide service & support. Simple request, thought Kelley Smith, because that is what we do for all our customers we build quality in every cabinet!
Paul Cox later told me that during the design process Fatburger then asked what was the possibility to expand the flavorrail capacity to more than 6 traditional size topping jars, and that is when Dennis Byrne of Byrne & Associates, representative of Server Products Company, came to the rescue. Dennis Byrne introduced C. Nelson to the new Server Products 2/3rd size topping jar line.
Traditional fat jar or the Server Products 2/3rd skinny jars, 50% more choices
The new 2/3rd jar line was designed for those operations that wanted more variety in the same space. We were excited, said Paul Cox, just what we were looking for. Fatburger and many of C. Nelson’s custom design burger & shake accounts where excited too! Kelley Smith and Paul Cox were able to get 50% more jars in the same flavorrail line of cabinets. Kelley Smith and Paul Cox appreciated the help of Ron Ripple, VP of Sales & Marketing with Server Products, Kelley Smith said both companies worked hard to satisfy the needs of our mutual customer Fatburger.
C. Nelson, for the past 30 years, built the model BDF series flavorrail cabinet, this style has served many ice cream shops years of service free operation but was limited on workspace and expanded topping choices. Another Southern California customer, Ghirardelli Chocolates, was looking for a flavorrail that would give them an old-fashioned soda fountain look with lots and lots of work space. Ghirardelli satisfied both needs in the newly re-designed BDxx-JR cabinet. Ghirardelli put the new cabinets, BD8-JR and BD12-JR, in their Disney California, Soda Shop. The cabinets allowed them
BD12-JR with lots of topping choices and lots and lots of work prep space for making great tasting sundaes or banana splits.
to have lots of topping choices for their great tasting cool creamery Ghirardelli Ice Creams and lots of work prep space for making their world-famous ice cream sundaes.
C. Nelson has received accolades from the milk shake, smoothie, and scoop shop operators, both independent and chain, regarding the features and benefits of this new design. C. Nelson offers another industry first they are the only company that builds this style and offer over 5 models to choose from.
For product details please contact C. Nelson today!
C. Nelson Mfg., Company, Oak Harbor, Ohio, USA @ 419-898-3305 X204
jenis Splendid Ice Creams of Columbus, OH received 2 brand new C. Nelson 16dip-HV cabinets. jenis replaced 2 older cabinets with the updated look of the Low Glass/Curved Glass gelato look. jenis loves the look and enjoys watching the children look into
the cabinet for their choice of Jeni’s splendid ice creams.
