A Guide to Opening an Ice Cream Parlor – Make Them Scream for Your Ice Cream

Ice cream is one of the world's most popular sweetened frozen foods because of the simplicity of its production and the effect it has during hot summer days. Australia is one of the world's hottest nations, so as expected ice cream is one of the most popular sweets in the land down under. And it's fairly simple to start up your own ice cream parlor when you consider the amount of equipment any kind of restaurant requires. The equipment you'll need for an ice cream parlor is very specific but also easy to get and set up.

First you need to decide where the ice cream is made and frozen, you could use a mixer to create the mix required for the ice cream and gelato a large chest freezer. A few pots and pans to boil the milk and transfer the mix or add special flavouring ingredients to the mix. You will also need an ice cream display fridge, one specifically made for keeping ice cream cool during its storage and display period. You can find many different models of ice cream display fridge for sale but you should look out for a few specific features to use it to its full capacity.

Ensure that your display fridge has temperature regulation and electronic controls to make sure the temperature can be changed to suit ice cream that has different consistencies. You should also ensure that it has automatic reverse cycle defrosting and automatic evaporation of condensed water which will allow you to defrost the fridge quickly and clean it faster than you would with any other type of display fridge. After these features it's simply a matter of capacity and aesthetics, and you can find most of these features in the various different models of icecream diplay fridge for sale.

But these aren't just for independent ice cream parlors, they can also be used in existing restaurants and other different food shops and delis. You could have one specific corner dedicated to a small ice cream parlor where customers can sit down and eat some gelato or buy a cone full of unique ice cream that will give them a cool refreshing sweet. The addition of a few extra options for the ice cream is also a pretty good idea, putting some extra toppings and syrups would give your customers that little bit of extra flavouring options for their tastes.