George Dunlap, since 1973, serving the Ice Cream Industry. I am always at your service.
Category Archives: Ice Cream Retail
PASMOUSA S110 – ICE CREAM/YOGURT COUNTER MODEL.
ICE CREAM RETAIL – AIRSTREAM TRAILER – ROBBIE’S of ISLAMORADA
January 12, 2024, While traveling the Florida Keys on business, I stopped here for lunch and to my surprise. Robbie’s of Islamorada is a Awesome – Clean Family Fun stop. Adult beverages great food and best of all Ice Cream served from an Airstream Trailer.
My good friends at P&S Trailer Service in Helena, OH can customer design and build something as exciting for your destination business. Selling Ice Cream from an Airstream trailer is fun and draws a crowd, and offers you the operator a Professional Image – Brand, that is hard to beat.
It is time to enjoy and add Ice Cream to your destination location today.
With over 50 years in the Retail Ice Cream business, I enjoy telling you about all the exciting ways to sell Ice Cream, both soft serve & hand scoop. Stay tuned for more great stories about exciting ice cream shops around the USA. Catch you soon, George Dunlap
Ice Cream in Sarasota Florida – November 2022
After a few busy weeks visiting with many great customers around Southern USA and Florida, my wife Nancy and I meet up with our daughter and her family. The best part of that week was sharing ice cream with my grandson Oliver. We hit all the great shops in the Sarasota area. One in particular is Orange Octopus Ice Cream, with 2 locations, our favorite is located behind Captain Curt’s Crab & Oyster Bar on Siesta Key, Florida. Oliver loves all their Homemade Ice Creams.
I have had the pleasure to serve Moncef Bennaji and his wife with both their stores. If you are in the Sarasota area, stop by, they make some of the best tasting Ice Creams. My grandson Oliver says so!
Soft Serve or Hard Scooped Ice Cream, which do I sell – the trend is to offer both, 2 unique and different markets that you can satisfy.
There was a time that if you wanted a Scooped Ice Cream cone you went to the local hand dipped ice cream shop, if you wanted soft serve you went to the local Dairy Bar. Today selling both Hard and Soft Ice Cream at the same shop continues to grow. Why? Because it is the answer to serving your customer’s wants. Can a shop survive selling only 1 style Ice Cream, Yes. But the growing trend is to blend both into the shop menu.
Charlotte’s Soft Serve Ice Cream shop, is a example of this move to selling both. Why? Because her customers wanted both. How hard is it to add 8 or more flavors of scooped ice cream? It is easy, contact your local Ice Cream Supplier – Dairy. In Charlotte’s case she added Perry’s Ice Cream. This becomes a profitable partnership between you the shop owner and your ice cream supplier.
Call GEORGE DUNLAP TODAY, If I may be of assistance regarding this exciting addition to your Menu $.
Design and Building your Dream Ice Cream Shop – Step #1 the Hand Draw – the hardest part of the Dream….laying it all out!
Once you have your equipment and work flow laid out it is time to go to the designer. The Design firm, Mindful Design Consulting, will take my layout and develop your total store package; from construction drawings to the color on your cups to developing your social media branding, they can add the COLOR and JAZZ that keeps your customers coming back.
Mindful Design, Check out this exciting link, takes the raw….and adds “all that Jazz“!
MINDFUL DESIGN CONSULTING – CONVERSATION WITH KATIA KOHLWES
Several weeks ago I, George Dunlap, had the pleasure to be interviewed by Katia Kohlwes of Mindful Design Consulting. We talked about helping entrepreneurs in the ice cream retail business. Her company, Mindful Design, offers a unique vision and connection between modern Store Branding & Retail Store Layout. Checkout the interview here.
Ample Hills ice cream: price, flavors, review – Business Insider
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Business Insider – Kaitlin Hatton
Ample Hills Creamery has become a favorite among New York City-based ice cream aficionados thanks in part to its rich tastes and zany flavors.The local chain was born in Brooklyn in the spring of 2011 to budding entrepreneurs Brian Smith and Jackie Cuscana. The couple began creating ice cream and baked goods from scratch, spending hours a day churning out their original flavors. Ample Hills has grown rapidly, expanding to nine locations in New York City, one in Disney World and now, a new store coming to New Jersey. Smith said he has big plans for the future, including growing the business to be on the level of Starbucks or Ben & Jerry’s. He told Bloomberg that he plans to complete a Series A funding round this fall, and is hoping to raise $8 million. Plans for a massive ice cream factory are also in the works.”We want our brick-and-mortar shops to be community hubs in the way that [Starbucks executive chairman] Howard Schultz transformed the idea of coffee shops into a destination. Where people go to pass the time … we want to do that with ice cream,” he said. I was curious to see if Ample Hills Creamery would live up to the hype, so I visited two locations within New York City.
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Source: Ample Hills ice cream: price, flavors, review – Business Insider
Ice cream alert! Humphry Slocombe just opened in Oakland
ice cream alert! Humphry Slocombe just opened in OaklandHumphry Slocombe, the far-out-popular ice-cream company with strange-sounding names, just opened a “parlor” in a shipping container in Oakland. (Courtesy Humphry Slocombe)Humphry Slocombe, the far-out-popular ice-cream company with strange-sounding names, just opened a “parlor” in a shipping container in Oakland. (Courtesy Humphry Slocombe)By Angela Hill | ahill@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News GroupPUBLISHED: September 11, 2017 at 1:00 pm | UPDATED: September 11, 2017 at 4:46 pmAt least the recent hot weather in the Bay Area served up a sweet silver lining: a screaming desire for ice cream.And that desire has been fulfilled, especially for the cult followers of Humphry Slocombe’s.For more food and drink coveragefollow us on Flipboard.The SF-based ice cream company, founded by Jake Godby and Sean Vahey in 2008 and known for its wild and wacky flavors (like Hibiscus Beet Sorbet, Elvis: The Fat Years and Here’s Your Damn Strawberry), opened its first East Bay site in Oakland a couple of weeks ago. Mmmm, “First East Bay Site.” That could be one of their flavors!The new Humphry Slocombe can be found at The Hive in Oakland’s Uptown district, a shopping/gathering space that’s already home to hip spots like Drake’s Dealership brewery and Firebrand Artisan Breads.And you can’t miss Humphry Slocombe. For one, there’s probably a huge, long line. Plus, the ice cream stand is in an electric-blue shipping container, just across from Peoples Barber & Shop.They do indeed plan Oakland-centric flavors, like Oatlandish — a combo of Drake’s stout and oatmeal cookie.Like the Oakland Tribune Facebook page for more conversation and news coverage from Oakland and beyond.Humphry Slocombe is at 2335 Broadway (between 24th and 25th streets), Oakland; open 1 to 11 p.m. Monday-Thursday, noon to midnight Friday-Saturday and noon to 10 p.m. Sunday; www.humphryslocombe.com.
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Charlie & Tango, Ice Cream & Smoothies, A New C. Nelson dipping cabinet user, sold by Advanced Equipment
May I introduce a new C. Nelson ice cream dipping cabinet customer, sold and installed by Advanced Equipment of Cuyahoga Falls, OH.
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Equipment Line Up with 2 C. Nelson 16DIP ice cream dipping cabinets
Robert Phem & Crew
C Nelson exclusive features: Stainless Steel Interior, Stainless Steel Frost Shields, LED lighting