People often have an intense loyalty toward their favorite frozen desserts and the places that sell them. In honor of National Ice Cream Month, the Akron Beacon Journal conducted an online survey over the Fourth of July weekend and then visited the five locally owned ice cream and custard shops you picked as your favorites in Summit County.
Today is officially National Ice Cream Day. Want to know who to scream for and why? Then read on ...
1. Skoops’ Ice Cream: 438 Fifth St. NE, Barberton
Skoops’ owner, Terry Rastetter, always dreamed of owning an ice cream shop. After working 23 years in the restaurant business and taking on some extensive remodeling, his dream became a reality earlier this year.
The shop’s best-seller is its homemade banana custard, which is closely followed by its funnel cake banana split — some of Skoops’ many unique desserts. Since its opening, Skoops’ has added 15 new items to its menu, including cannoli flurries, Lake Anna banana splits and grilled pineapple upside-down cake sundaes. If you're curious about Rastetter’s favorite menu item, it's Henry’s hot fudge brownie sundae; the contents of which are a quarter-pound brownie with homemade vanilla soft serve and whipped cream, chocolate drizzle and a cherry to top it all off.
Skoops’ also sells pup cups for dogs and caters to those with dietary restrictions. Rastetter wanted to provide families with one place where a lactose-intolerant mom, diabetic dad, their sugar-loving children and the family pet can all get quality ice cream.
The shop’s grand opening was March 12, but it closed just over a week later on March 21 when Ohio’s new regulations in response to the coronavirus pandemic restricted how restaurants could serve their customers. Despite the circumstances, Rastetter and his employees continued serving the Barberton community. While closed, Skoops’ staff gave out 2,100 lunches and 120 Easter ham dinners free of charge to community members, putting their motto, “community is family,” to work.
“I was cleaning up after we closed and a little kid came knocking on the window and asked if we had anything to eat,” Rastetter said. “People weren't getting their unemployment and kids were used to getting school lunches.”
Five weeks later, on April 28, Skoops’ reopened and now provides sweet treats to thousands of customers each week. Rastetter insists that Skoops’ success is from its premium ingredients, staff and the Barberton community.
2. Durbin Magic Freeze: 1284 Wooster Road W, Barberton
Many Barberton natives know of Durbin Magic Freeze on the corner of Wooster and Hudson Run roads. The place opened in 1953 and quickly became famous for its homemade hot fudge and reasonable prices. The reasons for its popularity have remained the same, but now Chris Durbin, the original owners’ grandson, manages the ice cream and frozen custard business.
“No matter what people were going through in their lives, they should always be able to take their family out and have a little bit of relief from the day-to-day problems,” Durbin said. “We have people that have been coming here since the day it was opened in 1953, and they are bringing their great-grandkids now.”
The shop serves around 10,000 customers each week, making it the largest independent user of hot fudge in the state of Ohio with only one location, according to Durbin. Some customers eat their chocolate fudge right out of the jar and others keep it in stockpiles to make it through Durbin Magic Freeze’s annual closure in January.
Durbin began working at the shop when he was 10 years old, and now his daughter, Riley Durbin, is working there too. He plans on having Durbin Magic Freeze around for at least the next seven decades and hopes that they will be just as fruitful as the previous seven.
3. The Original Stricklands Frozen Custard: 1809 Triplett Blvd., Akron
Stricklands opened in 1936 and has been through one world war, 13 presidents and the civil rights movement. Bill Strickland, the original owner, even had to buy eggs from his friends during WWII to make the shop’s famous custard. Now, 84 years later, Stricklands President Scott Margroff, and his sister, Linda Margroff, are the third generation to run the frozen custard shop.
Scott Margroff attributes Stricklands success to its unique frozen custard machines — one of which was built in 1936 — that use quick-freeze technology to create small crystals, making its custard particularly smooth. Other important factors are the shop’s slow churning process and the fact that its frozen custard is served at temperatures between 19 and 22 degrees Fahrenheit.
Each day, the original Stricklands has vanilla and chocolate frozen custard, along with two special flavors that are available for three days at a time. It has 65 flavors in total, but its most popular is fresh banana, hence they make sure it’s available twice each month, Scott Margroff said.
Today’s flavors are grape and peanut butter, and Monday’s will be chocolate chip cookie dough and maple nut. And since you're probably screaming to know, fresh banana will next be available July 25.
4. Pav’s Creamery: 3769 Manchester Road, Akron
You would be hard pressed to find any ice cream headaches at Pav’s Creamery.
Their menu covers all its bases with custards, sorbets, hard ice creams and yogurts. In addition to the menu’s variety, Nik Pappas, who owns the Pav’s locations in Green and North Canton, said that what really sets them apart is their wacky flavors. Within this category are peanut butter and jelly with Nerds, unicorn, red velvet Oreo, baklava and pistachio pineapple cake, among many others.
Another defining characteristic of Pav’s is its adult milkshakes, adult push pops and bourbon cakes. They’re the first ice cream shop in Ohio, and the second in the United States, to have a full-service liquor license, according to Pappas. Even though you can’t get these alcoholic items at their Manchester road location, the Green and North Canton shops have these treats on tap.
In the midst of the pandemic, Pav’s created a program that provides first responders with free pints of ice cream that are donated from customers and matched by the shop. So far, thousands of pints have been given away.
“So every pint that you buy we give them another pint of the same flavor and then deliver it to nursing homes, fire stations, police departments, you name it,” Pappas said. “We've almost ran out of places locally that we could give it to because the response has been so supportive.”
Robert Pavlik, the ice cream shop’s namesake, bought the Manchester road location in the 1950s and sold it to Pappas’ grandparents in 1979. Pappas’ mother, Michelle Micochero, still owns and serves nearly 3,500 customers a week at the original location.
5. Biggins’ Big Dip: 197 Portage Lakes Drive, Coventry Township
Many people find peace while watching the sunset on the bank of a lake while eating ice cream, or making wishes into a wishing well and having them come true. At Biggins’ Big Dip, both can happen.
Biggins’ Big Dip has a view of the Portage Lakes, along with a wishing well, flower-covered bank and a functioning lighthouse so that people on evening boat rides can find their way to a sweet treat.
Some people rave about the shop’s Biggie Special, a specialty sundae topped with hot fudge, peanut butter and bananas. Others prefer the Cool Cookie, a sandwich consisting of two 4-ounce cookies and a hearty helping of vanilla frozen custard.
Co-owner Clark Bordner has shared ownership of the shop with his wife, Cheryl Bordner, for the last 25 years. They met and fell in love at Biggins’ Big Dip and now their son, Joe Biggins, manages it.
“My philosophy is if someone's coming to an ice cream stand, it’s because they want to relax and be happy, and that's the atmosphere we try to create here,” Clark Bordner said.
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