San Mateo resident Jason “Jolly” Herrick labored for about 25 years as a software program engineer earlier than deciding to pursue one other path: beginning his personal ice cream store.
After attending a weeklong coaching in South Carolina particularly for individuals seeking to open ice cream companies, he says, he determined to strive it out, and he and Vanessa “Essie” Greene, his spouse and co-owner, started to develop a spread of flavors. They needed to see if they may develop a complete menu based mostly on teas, and it wasn’t lengthy earlier than they realized there have been loads of flavors to work with.
They launched a meals truck and spent about six years working their ice cream truck earlier than lastly opening the brick-and-mortar location of Jolly Previous Usual Teas Cream in September.
The ice cream store is in an outdated Belmont constructing that’s been standing since 1910 — and was beforehand residence to an ice cream and sweet retailer, Herrick mentioned.
Its identify is impressed by Herrick’s childhood nickname — not as a result of he’s notably jolly, he says, however as a result of he was one in every of two Jasons in his good friend group, and his brother got here up with it. Jolly did, nevertheless, seem to be an ideal identify for an ice cream store, so it caught.
Up to now, the preferred ice cream flavors are chocolate smoke, made with lapsang suchong tea, and rose pistachio, he says. One other in style choice is the tea, biscuits and jam, mixing Ceylon tea ice cream with house-made shortbread and raspberry sauce. In the meantime, Herrick’s private favourite flavors are the orange cardamom chai taste and the southern candy tea with lemon sorbet providing, which tastes like a frozen Arnold Palmer, he says.
With the colder season on the way in which, the store can also be planning to begin providing a tea service in a few weeks.
Particulars: Open 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Tuesdays-Thursdays, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays and 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Sundays at 1110 Previous County Street in Belmont; jollysteascream.com/belmont
