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Carvel was founded and operated by Tom Carvel for its first 60 years. In 1929, Carvel borrowed $15 ($270 today [8]) from his future wife Agnes and used it to buy and operate an ice cream truck. Over Memorial Day weekend of 1934, Carvel's truck had a flat tire in Hartsdale, New York. Within two days, Carvel had sold out his inventory on the spot ...
Tom Carvel (born Athanasios Karvelas (Greek: Ἀθανάσιος Καρβέλας; July 14, 1906 – October 21, 1990) was a Greek-born American businessman and entrepreneur known for the invention and promotion of soft-serve ice cream in the northeastern United States.
Carvel sold the company in 1989 to an investment bank. By the time he died a year later at age 84, news accounts said Carvel Corp. was the nation's third-largest ice cream store, behind only Dairy ...
A Cinnabon cinnamon roll in a to-go box. The first Cinnabon opened on December 4, 1985, in Federal Way, Washington [5] at SeaTac Mall, now called The Commons at Federal Way.. Cinnabon was an offshoot of the Seattle-based Restaurants Unlimited chain, majority owned by Rich Komen, with minority partner and CEO Ray Lindstrom at the he
Tom Carvel (1906–1990), Greek-born American businessman and entrepreneur, founder of the ice cream company Frank Broadstreet Carvell (1862-1924), Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician Garreth Carvell , English professional rugby league footballer
It was founded in 1472. The Raeapteek in the center of Tallinn city, Estonia is one of the oldest continuously running pharmacies in Europe, having always been in business in the same exact house since the early 15th century. It is also the oldest commercial enterprise and the oldest medical establishment in Tallinn.
Domino's was founded on delivering hot pizza to homes in a timely manner, and its meteoric success now equates to over 20,000 restaurants in more than 90 countries.
Baskin-Robbins was founded in 1945 by American brothers-in-law Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins from the merging of their respective ice cream parlors, in Glendale, California. [citation needed] Burt Baskin learned about ice cream while he was in the military during World War II and opened Burton's Ice Cream Shop in California in 1946. [12]