The reigning queen of modern American ice cream founded her first ice cream company way back in the mid-1990s, and it didn't succeed. The timeline of Jeni Britton Bauer's ice cream career reminds us that "if at first, you don't succeed, try, try, again" isn't just something teachers used to tell you in school.
Homemade ice cream, a vast selection of sodas, and sundaes are on offer-so is all the local gossip you can handle, which is always free of charge.
The exterior has been scrubbed up nicely, but inside, it mostly feels like a trip back in time, which, if you have ever been to Wilton, Iowa, you know isn't a very long trip at all. Today, the classic sign- Candy, Soda, Lunch-beckons locals, politicians on the stump, and long-distance travelers, who happily make the short detour from I-80 for this wonderful little museum piece, operated by the Nopoulos family until just a couple of years ago, when new ownership stepped in. In fact, the reason Gus Nopoulos and Nick Parros bought the store was the presence of a working, ready-to-go soda fountain. When two young Greek immigrants seeking a new start outside of Chicago landed in the tiny town of Wilton back in 1910, the Wilton Candy Kitchen, which we know today as one of the finest old soda fountains in Iowa, had already been around for roughly half a century.
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