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...slice of the ice-cream pie. At the other end of the range, often with thoughts of rising fast, is the beefy red arm offering a just-scooped cone to a customer through a candy-store window. Sometimes the arm can write some impressive profit figures. The Baskin-Robbins chain (whose promotion of bubble-gum ice cream means that discriminating adult coneheads write off its 2,600 shops as hangouts for eleven-year-olds) has oases in Kuwait and Qatar. But Baskin-Robbins, now owned by a European-based conglomerate, started out in California in the 1940s...
...second place ("pleasing texture," "natural flavor," insufficient "oomph"). Frusen Glädjé was not tested; Alpen Zauber was far down the list, in the "puffy-fluffy, sweet-misery" category, having been rated "creamy but no taste," "salty." So were several other prestige brands: Sedutto's, Bassetts, Baskin-Robbins, Louis Sherry, Breyers and Schrafft's. First place went to the Giant food chain's economy vanilla "Kiss," which sells for $1.29 a half-gallon and contains milk fats, nonfat milk, sugar, corn sweetener, whey, locust bean and guar gums, mono-and diglycerides, calcium sulphate, Polysorbate 80, carrageenin...
...Square residents and students will probably miss the crumbles in Oreo Cookie or the candy in Vanilla Belgian Fudge. But other Square ice cream stores are not sorry. "When Belgian Fudge first opened up, we lost a definite percentage of our business right away," Ed Pershouse, an employee of Baskin-Robbins, said yesterday. "The hope is that we might gain that business back," he added...
Most Businessmen in the area said yesterday the store's closing came as a surprise, but some said the store's profits have declined in recent years. "The fad is over on yogurt," Sam Citron, manager of the Baskin-Robbins outlet in Harvard Square, said yesterday, adding, "I know yogurt sales are off all over...
...cream goes over real big around here. Belgian Fudge, Baskin-Robbins, Bailey's and Brigham's are at your disposal...