Newly minted store owner/operator

Hello r/icecreamery and fellow ice cream lovers. I’ve posted in here before in another account but for anonymity reasons I wanted to post this from a fresh account. Mods please don’t delete me I’m not a bot 🙂

Anyway, I think my story is unique enough that it will pique some interest in here and I’ve got a little down time (hurray) and I wanna share with others who could understand my enthusiasm!

In short: back in January I had never made ice cream in my life or even thought about doing so. Now as of earlier this week I’m running the only dedicated frozen custard store in South Korea (the only other place that I’m aware of that has it at all are the shack shake branches). We have the only stoelting custard machine in the country, (shack shake here uses taylor machines), I was told that by the Asia sales manager. I asked lol.

I contacted custard mix suppliers in the US, the big names but came to the conclusion paying for refrigerated shipping was never gonna be viable.

Next I contacted some local dairy producers to ask about OEM possibilities and was basically told to kick rocks unless I’m buying huge volume. So I had to figure out how to make everything myself which is what we do now.

So I went from zero knowledge, to some??? amount of working knowledge.

Anyway I just thought I’d share and I’m open to chatting about it with anyone who’s interested!