Article: Creamy profits top off branded ice cream programs. (selling ice cream at gasoline stations)

Ice cream is almost a magical treat - whatever the occasion, ice cream seems to do the trick. If I got sick as a child, mom gave me vanilla ice cream to make me feel better. After soccer games, win or lose, you'll find parents loading kids in the mini van and heading off to the local ice cream shop. The appeal is especially evident on hot summer days when licking an ice cream cone offers a cool and refreshing escape from the heat. Even the family dog wants a lick.

It's a potential profit area that one ice cream entrepreneur is not overlooking. Oak Park, Mich.-based Ashby's Sterling Ice Cream suggests operators create canine ice cream treats to draw in the dogs - or ...

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