Thursday, March 29, 2007

Ice cream carts from the King of Ice cream

Finally, a website made for, by, and about ice cream vendors. Who are looking to buy a brand new ice cream cart, looking to get into the business for the first time (the right way), or looking for suggestions, you have come to the right place. http://www.icecreamcart.net is dedicated to improving the industry of mobile street vending and to providing you with the necessary tools and information to do so.

Hi. My name is Will Hodgskiss. I am the founder of http://www.icecreamcart.net . I am also a mobile street vendor myself. As President & King of the company, I want you to be aware that it is my goal to supply you with top quality products and services that work well for you. I have put a ton of research into this site and the products offered through it. Every item was inspired by or requested by a vendor and their own vending wishes. Because I am a vendor myself, I know the importance of quality and reliability. I know what you will need to do the job of mobile vending the right way. While many choose the cheapest way, I have learned that is not always best. I refuse to sell you anything that I personally would not use myself. If it comes from me we built it. I either use it regularly myself or I am extremely familiar with it, and know that it will work well for you. This site features products of quality, designed to keep your ice cream business functioning well. The equipment you use in this business is just as important as the ice cream products you sell, and the way it is presented to your customers. Using many of these products myself, I feel that their superior quality will make your life easier while helping to improve an industry that provides so much happiness to so many people on a daily basis. We have learned from our customers and we build the carts the way you have told us you like it.

We are a leading manufacturer of ice cream push carts , ice cream bike carts and ice cream tow-able carts and Italian ice carts. We make all our ice cream carts using the highest grades of stainless steel and hand laid fiber glass so that your ice cream cart gives you decades of trouble free service. In addition to this we sell only ice cream carts that use regular or dry ice or ice cream carts that you plug in continuously. We have not found a reliable cold plate system on the market and are not comfortable selling you an ice cream cart that may not stand up to your long term demands. If you need a custom ice cream cart we can do that too. Just give us your design and we will build it from there no matter how whimsical your ice cream cart design. We can do it. We have been building ice-cream carts since 1989 and are able to ship to anywhere in the United States, Canada, or Europe as well as Asia and the islands. We have ice cream carts producing profit in London, England, Poland, Israel, UK, France, New Zealand, Australia, Lebanon, Kuwait. We also have shipped our ice cream carts to most of the United States including Texas, Florida, New York, California, Georgia, Washington, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Massachusetts, Indiana, Tennessee, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont and Missouri.

If it's a quality ready made or custom built ice cream cart that you need call us at:
1-800-915-4683

TYPES OF ice cream cart COOLING SYSTEMS

1) Ice pack versions. This is what we specialize in. They are fool-proof. We include the ice packs that you simply place in your freezer all night. In the morning you put them in the cart with the ice cream. As many as you need. It costs nothing and it cannot break. No costly freezer units or compressors to break. This is what we make.

2) Dry ice versions: these use a dry ice which is readily available and not expensive. This type of cart gets its cold from this dry ice that can cost from a few dollars a day. You just add more dry ice as needed. You can also use regular ice packs to supplement it. This costs nothing. We make this type of cart. It is fool-proof.

3) Freezer-type plug ins. These are the best if you have access to a 110 volt (standard) plug. They are cheap to operate and reliable as long as they are plugged in. We make these.

4) Cold plate (holding plate). This method involves a costly compressor that is expensive & unreliable. The idea is that you plug it in all night & unplug it before you use it. The problem is that it does not work well and is expensive to fix. For this reason we stopped making these several years ago.

TYPES OF ice cream cart COOLING SYSTEMS

Push cart: This is a cart that cannot be towed and is moved by pushing by hand. To move any large distance you will need to put it on a trailer. One benefit of this is that is a more traditional cart and nicer looking. It also takes up less room so you can get many on a trailer if you have a route of carts.

Towable Cart: This cart can be pushed by hand or towed by itself down the road. It is its own trailer. This model is more versatile and can be towed behind any car. Not quite as nice looking or traditional as a push cart.

ICE CREAM CART FACTS:

Ancient History – And Myths

Much of what is written about the history of ice cream begins centuries ago; it’s the stuff of legends. The claims of Nero and the ancient Chinese enjoying an “ice-cream-like dessert” are used to bolster ice cream’s long-standing popularity. Not necessarily true. These desserts, while frozen, were not ice cream as we know it, but more like sorbet or probably a snow cone! Nero would have servants run to the mountains for fresh snow and then race back to his palace where he would enjoy the frozen treats topped with fresh fruits. Again, it’s not the dairy treat we enjoy now and it was something only royalty enjoyed.

Ice Cream Comes To the Colonies

The still-for-the-rich “iced creams” were widely known in the 18th century on both sides of the Atlantic. Several recipes appear in a 1700 French cookbook, “L’Art de Faire des Glaces”, and here in the soon-to-be United States, ice cream was also known. Thomas Jefferson had a recipe for Vanilla ice cream, George Washington paid almost $200 (a chunk of money then) for a specific recipe, and James and Dolley Madison served ice cream at their second inaugural ball. Still, ice cream was limited in quantity and popularity, due to the enormous effort needed to make it (think two large bowls, lots of ice and salt, and 40 minutes of shaking one bowl while stirring the other – whew!).

If You Want Something Done Right, Ask a Woman

Give credit to Nancy Johnson. In 1847 she developed the first hand-crank ice cream maker, and despite what you might read elsewhere, received a patent for it. Much of the confusion (and lack of credit) to Ms. Johnson comes from the fact that she sold her rights to William Young for just $200 (still a pretty good sum in those days). He at least had the courtesy to call the machine the “Johnson Patent Ice-Cream Freezer.”

Mass Production – Finally, Ice Cream to the People!

The hand crank might have been fine for backyard picnics, but no one considered ice cream making as an industry – until Jacob Fussell in 1851. The milk dealer was looking for a way to keep a steady demand for his cream. He discovered that he could do so by turning it into ice cream – and he could get twice the price! His Baltimore factory utilized icehouses and a larger version of Johnson’s machine, and by the start of the Civil War he had additional ice cream plants in New York, Washington, and Boston. Ice cream still didn’t become a widespread phenomenon until the 20th century, when advances in refrigeration and power allowed for the dramatic increase in production.

From Pushcart to Inventor - Italo Marconi

Italo Marconi emigrated to the United States in the late 1800s, and although he lived in NJ for a time his fame resides solely in New York City. He began his business selling his homemade lemon ice from a single pushcart on Wall Street, but his business quickly grew into many carts.

Although he was successful he still had a small problem that was causing him to lose money. At the time, most ice cream from vendors was sold in serving glasses called "penny licks" (because you'd lick the ice cream from the glass, and it cost a penny to do so). There was a major problem with sanitation (or the lack thereof), but Marconi's problem was that many people would accidentally break the glasses, or not so accidentally walk off with them. His first solution was to make cone-like containers out of paper which worked fine until he was hit with a stroke of genius. He came up with the idea of making an edible container for his cool treat. So in 1896 he began baking edible waffle cups with sloping sides and a flat bottom - shaped like his serving glass - and it was an instant hit.

On September 22, 1903, he filed a patent application out of the city and state of New York, and U.S. Patent No. 746971 was issued to him on December 15, 1903. So although he lived in Hoboken for a time, while selling his wares in the big city, and although my home town web sites claims him as our own, his patent clearly states that he is "Italo Marconi of New York."

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