Schwan's Ice Cream man getting closed down

[WileE]

Not only were there 3 different ice cream trucks in NY but there was also a chinese food truck! All good things come to an end sadly.

YES !! Thank you, I remember this ! It was perceived as a copy of the Good Humor truck, and only seen it for a very short while. But then again, in a rough neighborhood, who know why it was never seen again............

 

[GTXDAN]

The local ice cream shop in the town where my grandparents lived outside of (4mi) had one of those trucks. It would show up at their house in the summer when my brother and I were staying with them.
I think my grandfather might have had something to do with that. 4 miles out in the country on a gravel road.

 

[1968rt]

View attachment 1738139 YES !! Thank you, I remember this ! It was perceived as a copy of the Good Humor truck, and only seen it for a very short while. But then again, in a rough neighborhood, who know why it was never seen again............

Actually Bungalow Bar was around from the 40s to the mid 70s

 

[6PKRTSE]

My parents used to buy from the Schwan's truck years ago for years. It was always good quality food of what I tasted anyway.

We did all of their propane powered delivery trucks here at work. Along with Blue Bird school buses, Frito Lay's and many other companies propane fleet vehicles.

 

[furious70]

Growing up we bought from schawns consistently. Long time driver was a horse buddy of my mom.
Life just doesn't seem to operate like that anymore.

 

[WileE]

Actually Bungalow Bar was around from the 40s to the mid 70s

Well... as a Beverly Hillbillies ice cream truck... it didn't last long in Brooklyn.

 

[autoxcuda]

Our small town of 1200 has had a schwanns truck on a route for years.
Drivers/salesmen were long term employees and did a great job.
Then 5 or 6 years ago it changed, lots of driver turnover, never new what day they would run the route.
I think schwanns CEOs seen the future and sold out.
Their long term salesmen/drivers were aging out and good replacments could not be found.

I wonder if there wasn’t enough profit to pay for good salesmen.

Also, do you think people in smaller towns just go into the larger towns where in the past 20 years Walmart and Kmart created this one place to get everything* model?

And the smaller towns are getting even smaller. People living on farms is going down since one person can (and has to) farm so much more acreage nowadays. And corporate farms don’t have any on living there. Schwan’s loyal customer base got smaller and smaller.



*everything: half @ssed and lousy instead of smaller specific businesses with quality product, people, and owners.

 

[64BEL]

One of my most vivid and early memories is of the independent ice cream man who drove through our neighborhood in Latham, NY in the '60s. His name was Joe Slish, and he drove a '64 D100 step side with the ice cream cooler mounted in the bed. The truck was blue, and I can still smell the leaded exhaust that we all smelled while waiting for our ice cream.

Schwan's was good stuff for the most part, but became a little hit and miss as time went on. We haven't ordered from them is several years. Sorry to see it go out the way it is.

 

[QuickBpBp]

They ran all over where I live. They were tan trucks with black lettering... Have not seen one in over year I guess this explains it.

 

[YY1]

Wasn't Schwan's purpose built freezer body trucks in pale yellow?

Probably very expensive hardware.

 

[Daves69]

These were a common sight several years ago around here......

Not sure, but I heard they ran on propane?

Yelloh, formerly known as Schwan's Home Delivery, permanently closing frozen food deliveries​

"Our concern is now for our employees and caring for them," Ziebell said in a statement. The last day products may be purchased via Yelloh trucks will be Friday, Nov. 8.

Yelloh, formerly known as Schwan's Home Delivery, permanently closing frozen food deliveries

A once-iconic frozen meal delivery service is shutting down after over 70 years in operation.

www.usatoday.com

 

[oldkimmer]

We used to buy once a week from them back in the 90s and 2000s but they seemed to slowly fade away up here as maybe business wasn’t as good as it had been. I haven’t seen a truck up here for probably 15 years. The trucks were bright yellow with black lettering.

 

[icetech]

Schwanns here has been a full food delivery services since i was a little kid.. used to love them but prices got to be too much, they used to make a breakfast biscuit with a pocket of sausage gravy in side the biscuit.. if they still make that i would have stayed a customer..they were awesome

 

[Slap Stick]

When you offer your products for sale in stores, people buy them in the stores when they do the rest of their food shopping.
The Schwan family still owned and operated Yelloh but their own business model eliminated their delivery service.
Schwan food products, made by the South Korean company who now owns Schwann's, is still supplying restaurants and stores.
Why pay a premium for the same products you can buy for less at the store?

 

[autoxcuda]

When you offer your products for sale in stores, people buy them in the stores when they do the rest of their food shopping.
The Schwan family still owned and operated Yelloh but their own business model eliminated their delivery service.
Schwan food products, made by the South Korean company who now owns Schwann's, is still supplying restaurants and stores.
Why pay a premium for the same products you can buy for less at the store?

Oh I didn't realize Schwan products were being sold in grocery stores.

Don't see them in groceries here in SoCal. But they don't have the brand recognition like in the Midwest heartland.

I agree, once you go sell to stores you'll kill the delivery model. Sort of like selling manufacture direct while having distributors.