BUSINESS ARTS
‘‘WHEN YOU’RE AT ONE OF BUTCH’S PLACES OR EVENTS, YOU’RE NEVER MORE THAN AN ARM’S LENGTH AWAY FROM SOMEONE WITH A BIG SMILE’’
Elizabeth Hashagen, Anchor, News 12 Long Island, with Butch Yamali
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According to Yamali, “I believe you can always judge a person’s character on how hard they work.” As a teenager, Yamali was introduced to regular half days of work, just twelve hours, at his father’s specialty shop, Dover Gourmet. Rather than creating a distaste for the hospitality business, it set the stage for a career mostly making something out of nothing or fixing and rebuilding broken food service establishments and brands. Yamali’s start was as innocent as a vanilla ice cream cone and perhaps just a matter of circumstance. It was the late 80’s and he was hired to work on an ice cream truck that was rented by a local community organization for an afternoon event. Reflecting on making maybe $100 for a day’s work, he took the experience and the money and invested in his own ice cream truck. His first event netted him $2,000 and Carnival Ice Cream was on a roll. One truck became more than 50 and further grew with a licensing / distribution agreement with Good Humor Ice Cream. Carnival Ice Cream is Long Island’s largest ice cream distributor and is the official distributor of Good Humor Ice Cream, Breyers, Ben & Jerry’s, and Sealtest products. Carnival only sells the name brand products which consumers know and trust. Yamali targeted a nearly unlimited set of potential customers and venues for the Carnival brand including… town pools, at sporting fields, crowded parking lots, local events, sports tournaments, festivals, picnics, birthdays, Mitzvahs, corporate and private parties, among other functions. They established
the brand in more than 30 parks that reads like a Who’s Who of NY County and State Parks, and over the years they have earned exclusivity through hard work, reliability, and customer satisfaction. The parks and beaches in which Dover has operated over the years include, but are not limited to:
CARNIVAL ICE CREAM DOVER CATERERS CORAL HOUSE MALIBLUE OYSTER BAR HUDSONS ON THE MILE MALIBU SHORE CLUB MALIBU BEACH CAMP MILLERIDGE INN & VILLAGE DREAM EVENT PLANNING QUICK SNACK VENDING PETER’S CLAM BAR RAAY-NOR’S MAPLE MAINTENANCE & CONSTRUCTION
From Carnival Ice Cream came more, much more; again, from practically nothing, new businesses emerged in the form of Quick Snack Vending Machines, Dover Caterers, and Dream Event Planning… Quick Snack Vending, the #1 On-premise Pepsi
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