National Ice Cream Month

National Ice Cream Month Celebrations

We asked ice creams store owners to tell us what they do to celebrate National Ice Cream Month. These five stores shared their celebrations.

July is always busy for all of us. We do send out social media reminders for ice cream month

July 1st: Celebrating Creative ice cream day, 20% off any creative flavor July 4th: Red, White, & Blue sampler for $4.44

July 17th: Ice cream day, Buy 1 sundae and get 2nd half off

July 23rd: Vanilla Ice Cream day, 20% off on vanilla

July 25th: Hot Fudge Sundae Day, Buy 1 & get 2nd half off

Very busy and a lot of fun, with any luck we will have plenty of staff each shift.

We also participate in the July 4th parade handing out 3000 cups of ice cream, we get lots of cheers. Ken Willis Beth Marie’s Old Fashioned Ice Cream & Soda Fountain Denton, Texas Starting with July 4th weekend, we will offer a red/white/blue ice cream special with free toppings for the kids.

We will offer a new ice cream flavor each week and create weekly specials using the new ice cream flavor and we will have live music every Friday night. Sharyn Lindblad Cocktail Creamery McKinney, Texas

We will be participating with several promotions this year. $1.00 off of all freshly churned pints and quarts during the month of July.

National Ice Cream Day will feature a free single scoop cone per family as well as $1.00 off any scoop size ice cream (single, double, or triple scoop). D. Whittington Das Ice Cream Café Helen, Georgia We just opened in August and are open year round. Not a day goes by when we aren’t asked for donations, sponsorships etc. winter is not “high” season for ice cream and I employ 20 adults who are differently abled. My payroll is crazy high.

So, we offer an auction item for fundraising. It’s called “create your own ice cream flavor “. We put a $70 value on it. The winner then discusses with us what they want this flavor to be like. We obtain the ingredients and have them come to the shop to help make it.

So, they get an ice cream making experience. They also can take home 4 pints of their creation. We sell the remainder. So, this is not a “dead” loss to us. So far, these auctions have netted the schools or charities $150 each - far more than a gift card would get them.

We’re featuring the winners and their flavors for National Ice Cream Month. Robin Rinearson, Owner, Jake’s Ice Cream Falls Church, Virginia

For Ice Cream month we are making a new flavor called Rota Rocks and a new T-Shirt design to go with it. David Rota Rota Spring Farm Sterling, Massachusetts

We always do a fundraiser to celebrate National Ice Cream month while raising money for a good cause. In addition to owning Ziggy’s, I am a brain cancer survivor so our fundraiser benefits cancer patients.

This is the 3rd year that we are hosting a fundraiser for Henry Ford’s Game on Cancer foundation. We’ve raised over $20,000 in past years. This year we are hosting a 5K Run Walk. Check out the details at: https:// gogray5k.com

To “sweeten” the fundraiser, my team of doctors always join the event where they serve as our “celebrity scoopers”. I’ve attached some images from last year’s fundraiser as well as our Go Gray 5K Banner Katie White Ziggy’s Ice Cream Parlor Grand Blanc and Holly, Michigan