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Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Gourmet milkshake shop opening first Cincinnati-area store
Another Pennsylvania-based company is moving into Greater Cincinnati, but it's not a convenience store chain. It's a dessert shop with milkshakes, ice cream and small-batch chocolates. MilkShake Factory opens its first Cincinnati-area store in Mason at 2144 Kings Mills Road on May 31. The store will celebrate its grand opening with music and a buy-one-get-one free offer on all shakes, sundaes and molten cups from noon to 4 p.m. MilkShake Factory is known for its gourmet milkshakes, with flavors like Chocolate Dipped Strawberry, Campfire S'mores and Cookie Jar. The brand also offers chocolate barks, ice cream sundaes and dairy-free shakes. The Mason store is owned by franchisees husband-and-wife Tracy and Joe Carter. It also marks an expansion into Ohio for the Pittsburgh-headquartered company. 'With so many families, attractions, and visitors passing through Mason, we saw a real opportunity to bring something special to the area,' Tracy Carter said in an emailed statement. 'MilkShake Factory is all about creating joyful moments, and we're excited to become part of the community's everyday celebrations.' A MilkShake Factory is also set to open in Columbus this weekend, with two more stores planned for elsewhere in Ohio. This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: MilkShake Factory opening first Cincinnati-area store. Here's when
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
MilkShake Factory to open first Orlando location, See where
Editor's note: This story is available as a result of a content partnership between WFTV and the Orlando Business Journal. A Pittsburgh-based chain with milkshakes and more will open in downtown Orlando. MilkShake Factory will debut a new location in the City View Apartments building's ground level at 595 W. Church St. The shop would be the first in Orlando for the chain, which currently has sites in Panama City Beach and Riverview. Read: Two lucky locals hit the jackpot in Tuesday evening's Florida Lottery draw Jeré Matheny, vice president of brokerage services at First Capital Property Group and the broker for the retail space, confirmed toOrlando Business Journalthat the concept will occupy roughly 1,500 square feet. The chain in an email toOBJsaid Miller Johnson III will own the store and is targeting November to open, though the final date is subject to change. Click here to read the full story on the Orlando Business Journal's website. Click here to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And click here to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
MilkShake Factory expansion continues with Ohio franchise openings
The MilkShake Factory, a Pittsburgh-based franchise, will soon open its first two Ohio locations. The new stores will open this weekend in Mason, near Cincinnati, and in Columbus. The Columbus store, at 1333 N. High St., is located near Ohio State University between the University District and Short North. The store is owned by franchisees Shiva Bodipudi and Kishore Kumar. They also plan to open additional locations in the greater Columbus area, MilkShake Factory announced. The Mason store, at 2144 Kings Mills Rd., is located near several majors attractions in the area, including King's Island, Great Wolf Lodge and local campgrounds. The location is owned and operated by first-time franchisees Tracy and Joe Carter. Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times. Download the FREE WPXI News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Channel 11 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch WPXI NOW
Indianapolis Star
14-05-2025
- Business
- Indianapolis Star
Milkshakes bringing customers to Indianapolis stores. Desserts shops opening this summer
Cool sweet treats shops are opening in the area just in time for rising temperatures. MilkShake Factory is opening a couple of Indianapolis-area stores this summer. One in Nora opens in June. Another, in Avon, follows this July. The brand offers a range of handspun gourmet milkshake flavors, as well as limited-time options, sundaes, small-batch chocolates and non-dairy shakes. The 1300 E. 86th St. store in Nora and the Avon shop, at 8932 E. Highway 36 will be among the first 20 franchised locations in the system. The first MilkShake Factory opened in 2003 in Pittsburgh. The family-owned company evolved from a soda fountain and chocolate shop opened in 1914. The team behind the local stores, North Carolina residents Kindall Palmer and Alex Chandler, plan to build more in the area. They currently operate a location in Durham, opened last summer, and another which opened in the Raleigh suburb of Cary in February. The pair, who met as business students at the University of Utah, can open up to 15 locations total between the two metropolitan areas. Four of them will be in the Indianapolis area. 'You can get milkshakes at a lot of different places, but most places where you get them, it's kind of just an afterthought or a little side thing that they do; so that quality and dedication is not always there,' Chandler said. 'When you sip a MilkShake Factory milkshake, you're tasting that difference, because this is what we do. We focus solely on this; so there's a high degree of quality and perfection that goes into it.' Ice cream for the vanilla milkshake base is made in store daily using an exclusive recipe. Among flavors are Chocolate Dipped Strawberry and Campfire S'mores. The chain recently debuted the Chocolate Cake Shake and handcrafted Chocolate Cake Pop for a limited time. The shake combines chocolate cake with house-made chocolate sauce, chocolate ice cream and milk, topped with whipped cream, chocolate drizzle and a cake pop garnish. The cake pops are dipped in MilkShake Factory's signature chocolate and hand-decorated in-store. Chandler learned about MilkShake Factory through social media, and on a trip Pittsburgh for a wedding, he took in the flagship store downtown. 'The first thing that strikes you walking in is just how gorgeous of a space it is. It's a very modern take with kind of this iconic throwback to the old soda fountains of like the 50s and 60s that previous generations would hang out at and get a sweet treat. It's got that feel to it, but kind of in a modern way. So it's a very clean and vibrant store,' Chandler said. There are about 18 locations in seven states. All of MilkShake Factory's Pittsburgh locations are corporate-owned. The Indianapolis shops are among 12 underway. Chandler has experience in selling treats and getting in early on franchises. He has about 10 Crumbl locations in the Detroit, Michigan, area. He joined that company in 2020 when Crumbl had only about 60 stores. "So anything with sugar, we'll sell it," he said. "We like the sweet tooth, so it makes it fun." Story continues below gallery. Since the brand has its genesis in chocolate, it makes sense to find a chocolate bar near the store entrance. Each milkshake is topped with a triangle of chocolate made from the family recipe. There'll be seating for about 12 inside each store, which will have 15-20 workers each. The patio in Nora will seat 20. Demand has already shown itself with folks trying to get in the doors weeks ahead of the openings, Palmer said. 'At both locations, Avon and Nora, we get knocks all the time, like, 'Hey, where's my milkshake?'' he said.
Yahoo
28-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Fast home-building states, like Idaho, have higher birth rates, federal data show
Jon Bahr holds his newborn daughter, Taverie, in March while testing equipment at the new MilkShake Factory franchise in Colorado Springs, Colo., he opened with his wife, Micayla Bahr. Colorado had a 4.5% increase in births last year, the largest in the nation, as births increased nationally for the first time since 2021. (Photo courtesy of Jon Bahr/MilkShake Factory) The number of births in some Western states that are adding new housing rose last year, reversing losses the year before in many cases, according to new federal statistics released Wednesday. Increases from 2023 to 2024 were highest in Colorado (4.5%), Idaho (3.8%), Utah (3.6%), Washington state and Nebraska (each 2.6%). Births increased around 2% in West Virginia, South Dakota, North Carolina, Montana, Rhode Island and South Carolina. Almost all those states had decreases in births the previous year, and many have been building housing rapidly since 2023. Idaho, North Carolina and Utah have issued enough building permits in 2023 and 2024 to add about 4% to their housing stock, the highest in the nation. Melissa Kearney, an economics professor at the University of Maryland who specializes in families and fertility, said there could be a link between homebuilding and more babies. 'It is quite possible that increased access to home ownership, coming from a reduction in the price of houses in places that are building more houses, could meaningfully increase birth rates,' Kearney told Stateline in an email. Many of the other states with increases in births are also seeing building booms: Colorado, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota and Washington state are all set to add more than 2% to housing stock based on permits issued in 2023 and 2024, according to a Stateline analysis of U.S. Census Bureau Building Permits Survey data. Building permits can take up to two years to translate into finished houses and apartments, but they indicate which states are most willing to allow new housing that can boost population, tax receipts and the workforce. In Colorado, Denver County is set to add almost 10,000 housing units and in Idaho, Ada County, which includes Boise, could add 11,200 units based on building permits. Nationally births were slightly higher in 2024 than the year before, by about 1%, according to provisional federal numbers from the National Vital Statistics System within the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The fertility rate also increased slightly, but it remains below the 'replacement level' needed to keep the population stable — 2.1 children for each woman over her lifetime. All the increase nationally was in births to Hispanic and Asian mothers, with births continuing to decline for Black, American Indian and white mothers. Births to teenagers and women ages 20-24, in sharp decline since 2007, continued to drop last year, while births increased for women 25 and older. The number of births dropped most in states struggling with stagnant population: falling about 4% in Louisiana, 3% in Mississippi, and 2% in New Mexico and New Hampshire. All those states had little or no population growth between mid-2023 and mid-2024, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. Stateline reporter Tim Henderson can be reached at thenderson@ Stateline, like the Idaho Capital Sun, is part of States Newsroom, a nonprofit news network supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. Stateline maintains editorial independence. Contact Editor Scott S. Greenberger for questions: info@ SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
