George Dunlap, The Ice Cream Guy "conversations with my friends in the retail ice cream shop industry"

Eric's Ice Cream Factory - Defiance, OH, Exceptional Homemade,Handcrafted Ice Cream…Since 1999 GEORGE DUNLAP, July 15, 2025 - I had the pleasure to meet with my good friend and the ring bearer at my wedding, Eric Gerber last night for dinner at the Benchmark Restaurant outside of Toledo, Oh, to review his 25 years - in the Ice Cream Retail business. What it takes to be successful...sit back and enjoy this short episode.

My good friend, and fellow Birchard Historical Neighborhood Assoc, Fremont, OH, member, Joseph Albrechta , got together this winter and came up with this great fund raising plan. The funds go toward our neighborhood association to improve our community. But the journey will be fun and entertaining...enjoy the podcast. The Birchard Historical Neighborhood is planning The Great Ohio Ice Cream Adventure, June 25 – 26, 2025.  The program will offer the opportunity for a test group of community minded friends to visit a few of Northern Ohio’s finest Ice Cream Shops.  Proceeds of this fund raiser will go to the Birchard Historical Neighbor Association in Fremont, OH. Departing Fremont on the 25th of June, starting with a plant tour and tasting at Toft’s Dairy and then heading to Cleveland to visit: Mitchell’s Homemade, Honey Hut, Popcorn Shop @Chagrin Falls, staying at the Inn of Chagrin overnight. Then on Thursday they plan to visit Country Maid, Chill Artisan Ice Cream Medina, returning to North Western Ohio with a stop at Romp’s Dairy Dock, and finally dinner at Angry Bull Steak House in Huron.  As they get closer to their depart date they will be adding a few more stops. This adventure is the result of years of conversations between members of the BHNA about Ohio’s great ice cream shop history.  The expertise of members experienced with the ice cream industry will afford access to culinary enjoyments of Ohio’s great tasting ice creams. The Great Ohio Ice Cream Adventure 2025 was first considered when the members of BHNA were looking for an opportunity to share friendship, flavors, and frivolity in the pursuit of a higher call.  We are excited to extend this limited opportunity to you as an experiment for future engagement to benefit one of Fremont’s great neighborhoods. CONTACT: George Dunlap, Treasure, BHNA 1206 Buckland Ave, Fremont, OH 43420 614-378-8466 - george@georgedunlap.com

Part 1 of my December 2024 Conversations with Carl & Deborah Chaney – 2024 Newly Remodeled Chaney’s Dairy Barn Operation. This is Part 1 of several unfolding conversations with Carl & Deborah Chaney.  December 10, 2024. The Chaney’s Dairy Barn, more than Homemade Ice Cream, story as told by my good friends Carl & Deborah Chaney.  I had the pleasure to meet and work with the Chaney family over 20 years ago. This past December 2024 I had the chance to spend 22 hours with Carl & Deborah Chaney; Carl gave me the tour of the recently remodeled and expanded Retail Ice Cream shop, serving Homemade Ice Cream, Farm bottled milk, and wonderful meals. Deborah sat down with me and we had a “Kitchen Table Conversation” about how she and Carl got into the Homemade Ice Cream business, but first, we talked about the Chaney Dairy Farm, which started back in the 1940’s. Today the Chaney’s process, their own, on-site milk bottling operation,and Homemade Ice Creams.  The Jersey Cattle, on the farm, is a registered high quality milk producing herd. The Chaney’s Milk products and Ice Creams are distributed across the State of Kentucky and beyond. In 1985 Carl, took over the herd & milking business, and worked with his father James, James later passed in 2011. Carl and wife Debra have three children, all of whom were and still very involved in the farm: Jessica, James Neale and Elizabeth. Due to poor prices making for poor times in the dairy industry, Carl, with support of his wife Debra and children, began the process of looking for new ideas to help save the family farm. In 2003 Chaney's Dairy Barn was established allowing for the family farm to continue. In 2016, the family reached another crossroads and needed to make a decision on the future of the farm. With a strong commitment from the family and Carl's niece Dore Baker jumping on board as the farm manager, it seemed to be the perfect storm for progress. With a new barn, complete with a compost bedded pack barn to optimize cow comfort and a state of the art Lely A4 robotic milking system, the cows at Chaney's are truly some of the most happy cows you will find. In 2018 the Chaney family decided to revisit some of the ideas and goals they had from the very beginning. With the support of family, friends and her spouse, Carl's youngest daughter Elizabeth made the move in 2017 to begin the process of being able to pasteurize the milk on their farm from their cows allowing them to sell fluid milk, make value added products such a cheese and yogurt and most importantly provide an ice cream mix to Chaney's Dairy Barn that is made with the milk from their cows. This will make Chaney's the only place in Kentucky making an ice cream that comes from their own milk Links: Penn State Ice Cream School/Short Course North America Ice Cream Association Kentucky Department of Agriculture Chaney’s Dairy Barn reflects on 20 years of business Chaney’s Dairy Barn Celebrates Major Expansion and Enhanced Visitor Experience in Bowling Green (KY). Chaney’s Dairy Barn (Facebook)

George Dunlap: 2/12/2025 with Chad Hartley, Father, Husband, Ice Cream Operator, and Ice Cream Shop How-To teacher. This past February 2025 I had the pleasure to talk with my good friend Chad Hartley of Boise, ID. Chad has a wonderful story to share about his family, his career, and his love of helping those getting into the Scoop Ice Cream Business. If you are considering franchising your ice cream shop, Chad is there now and has a lot to say. Sit back and enjoy the next hour; Chad talks about Stella's Ice Cream, his personal story, and the Ice Cream School, and the future development of Stella's... growth...more than 1 shop.

George Dunlap: 1/14/2025, with Joey Boykin. Joey Boykin is one energetic Tennessean, he, his family, and his great team make some of the best tasting homemade ice creams and bakery goods, voted by his customers – December 1, 2024, Tennessee Readers’ Choice Awards. Served from the 3 Golly G’s Shops around the Middle Tennessee market. Joey and his family started Golly G’s over 9 years ago, Joey talks with me about his journey, his successes, and his Social Media programing.  Joey tells me; his hard-working team has been the Key to his success.  Joey tells me about his past challenges, and his future dreams. Joey and his team are working hard to develop another “Home Run Ice Cream Campaign” like his very successful Stuff Your Stanley program. Joey talks about what it takes to run a family business in today’s world.  Joey also owns, Rapamar Container Company – Corrugated Ice Cream Box manufacturer, Joey tells me how Rapamar is replacing high-cost plastic containers with bio-degradable Rapamar/Corrugated Ice Cream Boxes. Joey continues to emphasize how important, his family, his team, and the North American Ice Cream Association, have been, in the success of Golly G’s.  Golly G’s Website Golly G’s Facebook Golly G’s Stuff your Stanley Promo Golly G’s Instagram Golly G’s Best of Tennessee, Readers’ Choice Awards – Dec 2024 Rapamar Container Company – Corrugated Ice Cream Boxes North American Ice Cream Association

BY: GEORGE DUNLAP, 1/17/2025 John, mom Nancy, and his sister Becky, enjoying working the dairy farm and serving Home Made Ice Cream. John, just returned from the North American Ice Cream Association 2024 Convention; takes time to talk with me today; about the journey of Moomers Home Made Ice Cream; starting with Mom & Dad, 27 years ago. Moomers is located in Traverse City Mi. Another of my Legacy Series talks; with owners with over 25 years in the Retail Ice Cream business. John tells the family story and how they developed their ice cream receipts, expanded their sales, and the value of face to face customer contact. Moomers has been serving quality ice creams for the past 27 years; building the BRAND, serving one scoop after another.

BY: George Dunlap, 12/25/2024 Emery Thompson started in 1905 and continues to grow; one customer at a time. This past October 11, 2024 it was announced "Middleby Acquires Emery Thompson Frozen Dessert Equipment Company". Sit back and listen to my conversation with my good friend, Steve Thompson, as he tells the story of the journey of his family's business. Steve is not leaving the company, he looks to guide the family business into the Middleby (Taylor Company/part of the Middleby family) family of businesses over the next 3 years. Taylor Company & Emery Thompson are leaders in both innovation & customer service; in the Ice Cream Industry. The Emery Thompson name and quality will continue for another 120 years.

5 MINUTES WITH GEORGE DUNLAP ICE CREAM HARD SCOOP & SOFT SERVE George Dunlap @ 614-378-8466 Music by; Keep Calm and Podcast

Easy to use and Easy to move mobile ice cream/Yogurt push cart Today, Part 1, I talk about why you should have an Ice Cream Push Cart, This is a series on Ice Cream Push carts. Stay tuned for Part 2 ; the variety of carts you can choose from, Part 3, options in building out an ice cream push cart, Part 4 Dressing up you cart with Graphics and more. You Gotta Start Somewhere..... Our first cart and the rest is History Show Notes: C. Nelson Mfg., Co. Oak Harbor, OH. Tell Kelley Smith I said Hello! After 50 years in the Ice Cream business, I continue helping my friends enjoy their ice cream passion. I am always at your service, www.GeorgeDunlap.com or call me 614-378-8466

May 7, 2024, I had the pleasure to meet with Ryan Edwards and listen to the story of his family's journey, via COVID,and the need to be with family, about the dreams of making great tasting craft ice creams, developed by Ryan and, his wife, Christina Edwards. Their journey started in Brooklyn, NY many years ago, and ended in Sarasota, FL. Sit back and listen to a beautiful story of a dream, love of family, and desire to create best of class, locally sourced, ice creams. This is his story about Great Heights Creamery.

Galloway Company/Classic Mix - Neenah, WI I had the pleasure of meeting Hank Sweeney, National Account Manager with Classic Mix Partners of Galloway Company at a North American Ice Cream Association convention many years ago.  Hank started out with Ross Frozen Custard Machine Company of WI, which is now part of the Stoelting - Vollrath conglomerate based out of Sheboygan, WI. Hank and I talk about the ice cream mix business as it related to the retail and industrial ice cream industry, both scoop and soft served ice creams.  Hank tells how he journeyed from making custard machines to today developing Bourbon ice cream/cream treats. Hank has some great insight on the ice cream mix industry and its development over his past 24 years with Classic Mix Partners – Galloway Company.  Sit back and enjoy my good friend Hank Sweeney and I talk Retail Ice Cream and our future. Listen as we talk about ice cream mixes, pricing, and how quality still leads the way to growth. Hank Sweeney with Classic Mix Partners can be contacted at, 920-886-2348 Music BY: The Punisher by Lynne Music, www.NEOsounds.com

Joey making ice cream and dispensing it into his Rapamar disposable containers Late 2016, while I was with C. Nelson Mfg., Co., I had the pleasure of meeting Joey Boykin and family at the NICRA 2016 show; Joey told me his story how he was gearing up to building his first Homemade Ice Cream shop in 2017. Since then Joey has built 3 ice cream shops, built a complete ice cream truck serving ice cream shakes, cones, coffee and sweet goods. Last year, November 2022, Joey and his team bought the Rapamar Container Company and moved it to Tennessee. Listen to Joey's awesome story and how he is looking to stay excited about his great tasting Golly G's Homemade Ice Creams, serving special events with his ice cream truck, and supplying other ice cream homemade shops with his easy to use disposable ice cream scoop containers. This is were you hear how dreams are made. Joey has a great story to tell; please enjoy.

George Dunlap, I had the pleasure of getting to know Brent Murray around April of 2016; by that time he had already figured out how he was going to serve his customers with the best quality homemade ice creams available, supported by an awesome team of excited employees, I had the pleasure to catch up with Brent this week and hear what he is up to for 2023. If you are a newbie or an old war-horse like me, I know you will find our conversation about our industry, covid, and his vision going forward exciting. Brent Murray uses a Taylor ice cream machine for blizzard type treats, and an Emery Thompson Batch Ice Cream 24 quart machine for his Homemade Hand Scooped Ice Cream. Brent is very excited about 2023 listen and enjoy! FACEBOOK LINK, with over 16,000 followers. WEBPAGE LINK Our Podcast music was provided by The Podcast Host and Alitu: The Podcast Maker app.

Ice Cream Scoop Mobile Cold Plate Truck - Designed by George Dunlap and the team at C. Nelson Mfg. Cold plate carts are a must if you plan on going to outdoor events without electric power. Cold Plate carts by C. Nelson will last a long time once they are frozen. This Podcast explains how they work. Take a few minutes and listen. I am always at your service, call me anytime. George Dunlap

SHOW NOTES: C. Nelson Mfg., Co builds one of the best cabinets in the world. I have had the pleasure to work with the Smith family, owners of C. Nelson, for over 40 Years. I have designed, installed, serviced, and scooped from these awesome cabinets. They are built to last. Excellence Industries is a world class importer of value priced cabinets. I have had the opportunity to work with Excellence for over 15 years and have found the Excellence dipping cabinet to be a satisfactory alternative when availability is key. The Excellence is not the same cabinet as the ones built in the USA, but, it is a cabinet that will allow you to start scooping ice cream today, and under today's economic craziness that works for many.

Welcome to 2022 the season has started and we are embracing a new season; increased costs and exciting time to be selling both Hard Ice Cream and Soft Ice Cream, today's conversation is do i sell both? Enjoy these below articles on the differences of Soft Serve and Hard Ice Cream. The Real Difference Between Soft Serve Ice Cream And Regular Ice Cream WHAT MAKES HARD AND SOFT SERVE ICE CREAM DIFFERENT? A Look at the Differences Between Soft Serve and Hard Ice Cream Soft Serve Vs. Hard Serve Ice Cream, CBS Pittsburgh

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Kristen & Joe Fields, Whipty-Do!, tell their story and then COVID HIT. The "Famous" Blue Cone! I have had the pleasure to work with Kristen & Joe Fields for many years. I have enjoyed watching them grow their business; with great ice cream treats, hard work, and a well planned Social Media program. Their use of Facebook and Instagram has paid off well. Listen to their story about operating a family business, the challenges of raising a family, and how they adapted to the... COVID PANDEMIC.

Today I had the pleasure to talk with Theresa Fouquette, co-owner, of Bliss Small Batch Creamery. Theresa talks about her vision on building her first store, adapting to the COVID 2020, and her dreams for future growth with mobile carts, trucks, and retail shops. COVID 2020 How Bliss Creamery adapted to a Pandemic (3) C. Nelson Mfg., CO. 12diphv curved glass cabinets in BLACK Outside counter retail service - COVID the new normal in retail sales Music: https://www.purple-planet.com