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This is a question we have been hearing a lot lately. The answer is, “likely sometime in August.” Why are we not opening sooner? A few reasons: Our online store and ice cream club has literally saved our business, but with this has come many challenges with deliveries and customer service. We want to stay focused on making this much better. We see it as a permanent part of our business going forward – a game changer for us – and we want to do it right before we take on the store re-opening. There is a seven-storey apartment building…

It feels like it’s been years since we wrote a blog explaining how were going to try to survive during COVID-19;  it was only a few weeks ago! In that time hundreds of people have signed up for our new monthly Ice Cream Club. Our hope was that 150 people would join, but Manitoba you have gone above and beyond. Our goal was to reduce the losses from not being open during our most important part of the year, and that when we could open, there would be a chance to survive. The response has been extremely heartwarming and at…

We opened our ice cream shop on the first day of winter December 21, 2017. As we write this article, we are in the middle of the COVID situation and 28 months into our store’s life. We started out with a vision to make the best premium ice cream possible, completely from scratch, using every local ingredient we could find and serve it in our store direct to customers.  We also wanted to create employment for Zainab’s family, who are Syrian refugees. Joseph wanted to put his passion for dairy products to good use in his own business and Darryl…