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 Sweet
Action Ice Cream
More and more businesses are not only enthusiastic
about the product or service they provide, but also have a deep passion
for their community and the environment. Sweet Action Ice Cream is
an example of this conscientious, deliberate trend. Sweet Action
is an independent homemade ice cream shop located in the heart of
Denver. Samantha Kopicko and Chia Basinger are the proud owner-operators. With
Samantha’s many years of sales, marketing and management experience and
Chia’s years of restaurant experience combined with their love of
making ice cream, the next logical step was to open Sweet Action Ice
Cream.
Samantha
and Chia are committed to creating the best ice cream by using the best
ingredients around: farm fresh all natural dairy products, Colorado
fruit from their CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) and homemade
candies for mixing into the ice cream. Sweet Action strives to
create the best traditional flavors (vanilla, chocolate, Oreo) while
working with unusual ingredients to bring new flavors to the table
(baklava, strawberry balsamic, chocolate wasabi, spicy carrot sorbet).
They also offer ice cream cakes, brownies, fresh baked
waffle cones and coffee. In addition, they use only biodegradable
products, their cups and spoons are made of corn, and their pints and
plates are made of sugarcane fiber.
In
addition to buying local ingredients and using products friendly to the
environment, Sweet Action loves working with nonprofits in their
community. Samantha explained, “We work with nonprofits on our
‘Sponsor Flavor’. This is a flavor we run for the month inspired
by a nonprofit organization, and then we donate 10% of our total sales
of that flavor to the nonprofit.” This month they are working with
Girls Rock Denver, and the Sponsor Flavor is “Girls Rockin’
Road.” In the past they have partnered with Net Impact and Project
Angel Heart.
Sweet
Action came to Colorado Enterprise Fund with a solid business plan,
marketing, sales, restaurant experience and the need for additional
working capital to purchase the freezers they needed to make ice
cream. CEF Loan Officer, Alan Ramirez, had the following to say
about Sweet Action, “They were really well organized. Both Sam and
Chia came in with good transitional skills that could be applied to the
business. In speaking to them as well as reviewing their business
plan, you knew Sweet Action was something they had been considering for
a long time.” Since they opened in 2008, they have grown
from two employees to seven.
Stop
in soon to enjoy a delectable cold treat on a hot summer day. Sweet
Action Ice Cream is located at 52 Broadway, Denver, CO. You can
also learn more about them at www.sweetactionicecream.com.
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