Is your mouth watering yet?
If not, it will be soon while making the trip to Katie’s Korner for homemade ice cream.
Soon being May when owner of the franchise’s North Sewickley Township location hopes to open the doors.
“We plan on opening in May,” said owner Gary Hummel. “We are excited to give local young people an opportunity for employment.”
Hummel also said he is looking forward to running an energetic business with a friendly crew that will be a meeting place for friends and families to gather and enjoy some sweet treats.
He said those treats will include ice cream cones, sundaes, banana splits, milk shakes, and apple dumplings.
“We will be serving a very premium product,” Hummel said referring to the homemade ice cream.
Katie’s Korner is a small franchise based out of Ohio. Hummel said the franchise owner learned to make the specialty ice cream from his mother, and her name was—you guessed it—Katie.
Hummel plans to have his new shop open 8 months of the year from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week.
His reason for opening a Katie’s Korner franchise at 801 Mercer Road Beaver Falls (the intersection of PA 65 and PA 588 and right across from Spotlight 88) is that he saw a need for an ice cream shop in the community. He said he has already received positive feedback regarding his upcoming opening.
“We have already received a lot of enthusiasm from the community,” Hummel said. “And we are working to be a big part of the community with sponsoring a girls softball team, a soccer team, and little league baseball.”
Hummel himself is from the community and attended Riverside High School, and as an entrepreneur is learning the ropes of business. He said he was fortunate enough to build his facility from the ground up allowing him to develop his vision his own way. He looks forward to the challenges of actually using the point of sale (POS) system that he researched over the last two years. He also has researched the best way to schedule employees and other technologies that will help to run his business and set it apart from others. One thing he said is unique about his Katie’s Korner location will be digital display screens for menus.
“I have attempted to develop a business where I get things right,” he said. “I am very excited to see if I can pull it off.”
In the past Hummel has owned a pizza franchise and a bookstore café. He admitted that it was not necessarily a dream of his to own an ice cream shop, but his entrepreneurial spirit got the best of him and seeing a need in the community prompted him to action.
He said running a business takes a drive to continue despite challenges and that mistakes are the way you learn. When it comes to success, he likes to refer to the Winston Churchill quote, “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
Katie’s Korner will feature a seating area for gathering and prices will be competitive with other area shops.
You can find Katie’s Korner on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KatiesKornerNST/ or you can visit the website: http://katieskornernst.com/
In case you are curious about the flavors … there will be 50:
Ice Cream
Banana
Black Cherry
Black Raspberry
Black Raspberry Cheesecake
Black Walnut
Bubble Gum
Butter Pecan
Butterscotch Ripple
Cappuccino Fudge
Caramel Cashew
Chewy Chocolate
Cherry Cordial
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
Chocolate
Chocolate Almond
Chocolate Chip
Chocolate Marshmallow
Chocolate Pecan
Coconut Almond
Coffee
Cotton Candy
Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter
German Chocolate Cake
Grape
Heath Bar
Maple Walnut
Mint Chocolate Chip
Mocha Chunk
Mousse Truffle
Orange Pineapple
Oreo
Pistachio
Praline Pecan
Reese’s
Rocky Road
Salty Dog
Spumoni
Strawberry
Strawberry Cheesecake
Vanilla
Vanilla Bean
Whitehouse Cherry
Sherbets
Blue Boy
Orange
Red Raspberry
No Sugar Added
Butter Pecan
Fudge Ripple
Milky Way
Peanut Butter Fudge
Vanilla
We love Katie’s!! Ty so much Mr Hummel