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Sisters open shop in Lake Helen

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Ribbon-cutting — Junior Kuchler, left, and Erin Groody, far right, help three sisters cut a ribbon to open their Lake Helen ice-cream shop. From left, the sisters are Cindy Powell, Vicki Murphy and Kim Powell. 3 Sisters Ice Cream Palace celebrated its grand opening Sept. 15.

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Yum — Houston White enjoys a hot dog at the grand opening of Lake Helen’s 3 Sisters Ice Cream Palace.

By Sarahrose Ministeri
Beacon Staff Writer

posted Oct 4, 2012 - 12:09:47pm

Lake Helen has a new ice-cream shop. 3 Sisters Ice Cream Palace celebrated its grand opening Sept. 15.

The date has special significance to the three sisters owners: Cindy Powell, Kim Powell and Vicki “Deedee” Murphy.

“It would have been our parents’ 76th wedding anniversary,” Cindy Powell said, “and it is because of them that we were able to open the shop.”

The sisters have lived in West Volusia for more than 60 years combined. They currently live in Osteen, Orange City and DeLand, but all plan to move to Lake Helen.

“We are having a ball,” Cindy Powell said.

3 Sisters plans to host monthly events at the 101 E. Ohio Ave. location. For more information, call 386-228-0414.

— sarahrose@beacononlinenews.com

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Huh | posted Oct 5, 2012 - 4:33:08pm

I said it wasn't the best business plan not poor. Don't misquote me. That's the problem these days, people read or hear something and completely twist, distort and make up their own story to fit their preconceived opinion. Best would be early spring where it is cool nights with warm days so you get some traffic but not overwhelming. Just a couple slow months to work out the kinks and using the slowest winter months to design and build the interior, exterior, start advertising, etc. Not open at the end of summer to have 6 slow months to struggle through with expenses and overhead. Ice cream doesn't keep for very long and they will be tossing out more than they sell trying to decide which flavors are best. Location would be a better choice than middle of Lake Helen or at least near somewhere with more foot traffic like a strip mall, shopping center, restaurants, park, dog park, etc. Not many people drive out of their way to get a couple scoops of ice cream. It's more of a product someone buys on a spur of the moment while they are in the vicinity doing other business.

Anyway, poor no, just not the best. I'm sure they have a much better idea of how the Lake Helen residents will react to an ice cream shop than I do if they've done their research. Maybe they just want a hobby or need a tax write off. As I said before, I wish them luck as well as any other entrepreneur. Most businesses fail and I hope they beat the odds.

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Professor | posted Oct 5, 2012 - 2:19:05pm

In response to "Prof"

You should have been the "consultant" for the Creative Arts Cafe....aka Lake Helen Diner.

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Cindy | posted Oct 5, 2012 - 10:32:39am

Good luck gals!

I hope your gonna have some of your baked goodies there as well.

Sounds Yummy!

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Prof | posted Oct 5, 2012 - 10:19:01am

In response to "Huh" thinking that opening in Mid-September is a poor business plan. In case you hadn't noticed, the weather stays in the 80's til November... and with so many former Northerners here, it's ALWAYS ice cream weather!!! That's like saying that people don't drink hot coffee in the summer... if that were true, Starbucks and every other coffee shop would be hurting.

Besides, it makes good business sense to get your operating plan, policies, procedures, etc flowing smoothly BEFORE being bombarded with a summer rush. Nothing worse than realizing you bit off more than you can chew while the learning curve is still so steep.

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singletaryzero | posted Oct 5, 2012 - 8:03:19am

Wonder if they's have italian ices

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Huh | posted Oct 4, 2012 - 8:05:55pm

Opening an ice cream shop in mid September doesn't seem like the best business plan but good luck. Maybe people in Lake Helen really like ice cream. Usually these kind of places are a front for laundering money.

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JJ | posted Oct 4, 2012 - 2:40:20pm

I wish the sisters the best of luck. The horrible sandwich joint and the over priced soup place didn't do very well at the same location.

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