A great story about one of C. Nelson’s friends and an industry leader. Rosati Ice has been serving a wonderful product for years on the east coast and years ago started expanding to the south, mid west, and south west.
How’s this for a business plan? Make a gob of money in the summer. Lose a gob of money in the winter. Hope that summer’s gob is greater than winter’s. That’s how Rich Trotter describes the business of selling Italian ice (or water ice as it’s known around the Philadelphia area). “I was never comfortable with that model,” he said. There’s no doubt Trotter has a sense of humor, but the CEO of SR Rosati Inc. is serious about evening out the ups and downs . . .
Source: Rosati Ice succeeds with teamwork, talent | 2015-05-06 | Dairy Foods