06/14/2024
More you didn’t know about Dale Johnson!
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“Jamie’s Dippy Whip closed and I bought their equipment because it was the only place in the neighborhood the kids had to go. I said that I’d hold onto the equipment to see if a spot opened up on Columbus Avenue.
I sat on the equipment for two or three until I got a call that this building was available, and I moved in. That was in 2020, so this is our fourth year. I don’t want to make a million dollars, and even if I wanted to, you can’t do it selling ice cream. Maybe you could by raising the prices, but this is a neighborhood thing and you’ve got to look at the neighborhood. If I raised my prices, kids and families couldn’t afford it and they would come here.
When I was growing up in this neighborhood, you could get a piece of candy for a penny, fill a bag for three, or get something from a bakery for a nickel.
But today, where can a kid go and get something for 50 cents? They can here. If that’s all they’ve got, they can come here and grab a bag of popcorn. If they ain’t got the money on ‘em, I’ll tell ‘em to grab a bag and get going.
As a business, you can’t don’t that all the time, and if somebody told me back in the 60s that one day I’d be running an ice cream shop, I would have laughed at them.
But the reaction you get from kids when you do something like that—that’s why I do it.”
- Dale Robert Johnson, Buddy's Columbus Cone
Buddy's Columbus Cone is located at 801 Columbus Avenue, and is open from 4pm to 9pm seven days a week.
