Ken Norton serves as the Director of Retail Operations with Chocolate Shoppe Ice cream Co. and has been with the company 5 years. He had his own business and retired, then fell in love with Chocolate Shoppe and their brand. The company started in 1962 Chuck Sr. Deadman and his wife had a Chocolate shop with ice cream, then shifted to just ice cream. Nowadays you can still find him checking in daily on the thermostat, but his sons Chuck Jr. and Dave Deadman now run the company. They serve all over the US now but started in Madison, and have 9 locations and a production facility. When it comes to naming the flavors it's a large group of people that focus around a name that grabs peoples attention, peak interest or relatability. Every year they run a creative flavor contest which is where some of their iconic flavors like This $&@! Just got Serious and Kitty Kitty Bang came from. Their new flavor from the contest this year was released in Stores Monday which was "Apple Cider Donut" This year to Celebrate national Ice cream day July 20th their 2nd annual Cone Crawl is back by high demand. Where people can go to all locations and earn prizes and try new flavors and gather prizes. 

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Ken Norton serves as the Director of Retail Operations with Chocolate Shoppe Ice cream Co. and has been with the company 5 years. He had his own business and retired, then fell in love with Chocolate Shoppe and their brand. The company started in 1962 Chuck Sr. Deadman and his wife had a Chocolate shop with ice cream, then shifted to just ice cream. Nowadays you can still find him checking in daily on the thermostat, but his sons Chuck Jr. and Dave Deadman now run the company. They serve all over the US now but started in Madison, and have 9 locations and a production facility. When it comes to naming the flavors it's a large group of people that focus around a name that grabs peoples attention, peak interest or relatability.&nbsp;Every year they run a creative flavor contest which is where some of their iconic flavors like This $&amp;@! Just got Serious and Kitty Kitty Bang came from. Their new flavor from the contest this year was released in Stores Monday which was "Apple Cider Donut" This year to Celebrate national Ice cream day July 20th their 2nd annual Cone Crawl&nbsp;is back by high demand. Where people can go to all locations and earn prizes and try new flavors and gather prizes.&nbsp;See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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