Ice Cream

MaggieMoo’s Ice Cream Corporate Office

MaggieMoo’s Ice Cream was founded in 1989 in Kansas City, Kansas, by Juel and Katherine Tillery. The store is named after a cow that the couple’s daughter liked. Franchising started the next year and the business expanded quickly.

The company is different from other ice cream shops in that they serve ice cream in a fun, light hearted environment. Today, all company stores are franchised operations of the Global Franchise Group. The company currently has about 400 locations, with plans to expand to 1,000 locations, but no date is set for achieving that goal.

MaggieMoo’s Ice Cream offers a premium brand of ice cream containing 14% butterfat and is known for their wide variety of items that can be mixed into the ice cream or served on top, including crushed candy bars, fudge, sprinkles, brownies, and cookies.

MaggieMoo's Ice Cream

History

Breyer’s Ice Cream Corporate Office

Breyer’s Ice Cream was founded in 1866 by William Breyer, who sold ice cream off of his horse and buggy cart in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The business was incorporated in 1908 and sold to National Dairy Products in 1926.

Today, the company operates as a subsidiary of Unilever Corporation. Up until 2006, the company was well known for producing the most natural type of ice cream possible, usually with nothing more than 3 or 4 ingredients. In order to cut costs, Unilever reformulated many of their most famous ice creams. Ingredient lists now can be as long as 40 items. In fact, many items have been reformulated so that they no longer contain enough cream and natural sugar to be called ice cream. These items are now sold as “frozen dairy desserts”

Breyer’s Ice Cream is frequently confused with another brand of ice cream called Dreyer’s, which is common on the West Coast of the US. Although the names are almost identical, they are two different companies.

Breyers Ice Cream

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Marble Slab Creamery Corporate Office

Marble Slab Creamery was founded in 1983 in Houston, Texas, by chefs LaPage and Penn. The original company name was Cones and Cream. The company was the first to use a frozen marble slab to cut ice cream and mix flavors.

The company was purchased by current CEO Ronald Hankamer in 1986, who changed the name and added a franchise option. The company has grown substantially in the past 15 years, especially in the franchise area. Entrepreneur Magazine, Fastest Growing Franchise, and America’s Top Global Franchises all have listed Marble Slab Creamery as one of the fastest growing franchises in America.

Today, the company has 391 locations across the US and in 11 countries, as well as Puerto Rico. In addition to ice cream, the company also offers brownies, cookies, ice cream cakes, and assorted cones, including the popular waffle cone.

Marble Slab Creamery

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Abbott’s Frozen Custard Corporate Office

Abbott’s Frozen Custard was founded in 1902 by Arthur Abbott. Abbott would travel to carinvals and fairs to sell his frozen custard as a means of supporting his interest in horse racing. The first store was located in Rochester, New York in 1926, directly across from Ontario Beach Park.

Today, Abbott’s Frozen Custard has locations in 5 states. The company was purchased by Leonard and Thelma Schreiber in 1957. Franchising operations began the following year. There are several franchises in Japan that opened in 1999 and in 2006, several Krispy Kreme outlets began offering Abbott’s Frozen Custard at their locations.

Arthur Abbott never lost his love for race horses and it paid off for him in 1952 when his horse Blue Man won the Preakness Stakes.

The company won Best Ice Cream/Frozen Yogurt/Frozen Custard award by City Newspaper’s Best Of Rochester Awards in 2015.

Abbott's Frozen Custard

Arthur Abbott never lost his love for race horses and it paid off for him in 1952 when his horse Blue Man won the Preakness Stakes.

History

The company won Best Ice Cream/Frozen Yogurt/Frozen Custard award by City Newspaper’s Best Of Rochester Awards in 2015.

Bellvale Farms Creamery Corporate Office

Bellvale Farms Creamery goes back to 1819 when William Wisener purchased the Bellvale Farm. The farm itself is still active and has 450 acres of land, but the ice cream shop was put atop Mt. Peter, almost directly on the Appalachian trail, in 2003.

The company offers handmade ice cream with the butterfat from the cows on the farm, along with homemade pies, ice cream cakes, and ice cream pies. Bellvale Farms Creamery has more than 50 ice cream flavors and ice cream dishes, including the Bellvale Bog, which has brownie dough and fudge swirled inside chocolate ice cream.

Bellvale Farms won second place as Best Ice Cream Shop, by clients of TripAdvisor. The farm itself has been continuously owned by 7 generations of family members and continues to serve the Warwick valley.

Bellvale Farms Creamery