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This is Chris Redgrave for Zions Bank Speaking on Business.
Ken Davis grew up in New York and lived in Greenwich Village for years where he had a chance to eat some of the world's best food from many ethnic backgrounds, so he knows what tastes great. This upbringing helped him with his current place in Park City, JavaCow Coffee and Ice Cream.
Ken and his wife, Marcie, travelled to Park City for 25 years to ski before finally deciding Utah was where they wanted to live. Even though his family and friends live back east and vacation in Florida, the Utah mountains brought Ken and Marcie west. He said he had to bribe his daughter, who was 6 at the time, with a pony to get her here.
When they were figuring out what to do, Ken decided to purchase a local ice cream shop, sharing the space with a national coffee chain and bringing in ice cream from a company in Canada. Three years later, when they moved out, he took over and opened JavaCow. In 2010, he started making his own ice cream from scratch.
JavaCow Coffee and Ice Cream makes this dense chewy biscotti, and it's unbelievable. Ken bought a special machine that cuts the biscotti perfectly. JavaCow got a crepe machine where they hand dip the batter and this makes the crepes fresh to order. Typical JavaCow approach.
When Ken went into the ice-cream making business, he studied for two years. He says he's even surprised himself at how delicious his ice cream has turned out. He has folks tell him all the time to mass produce JavaCow Ice Cream and sell it in grocery stores. Right now the more personal, small-town approach works for him. He did the big corporate gig in New York for years and this format suits him for now.
When he was talking about his fresh fruit ice cream, he said he's just waiting for the Utah peaches so he can make his fresh, homemade peach ice cream. With JavaCow Coffee and Ice Cream, he is all about fresh ingredients, all natural AND homemade.
For Zions Bank, I'm Chris Redgrave, speaking on business.
Java Cow Coffee and Ice Cream 402 Main St. Park City, UT 84060 435-647-7711 www.javacowcoffee.com
