Dining
BY ROO MOODY
Katie and Ben met in Austin and got married the following year in 2007.
The design on the ice cream cups and the store’s wallpaper is a sketch of all six Chandler children.
PHOTOS BY ROO MOODY COMMUNITY IMPACT
Friendswood Scoop Shop creates small-town hub Katie Chandler said she always had a love for historically old houses and the sense of nostalgia she got from them. When she saw the second-oldest home in Friendswood was for sale, she immediately thought of turning it into an ice cream parlor. That element of community has been crucial, Chandler said. The business has worked with local
Chandler described the business as a family a air, with her oldest daughter being a manager at the store.
vendors to help create their unique avors. “Because we have ve kids, community has always been really important to us, and looking back, that’s something I’ve always been driven towards,” Chandler said. How we got here The shop o ers 16 avors and usually one non-dairy avor, all made in-house, including classic favorites like milk chocolate, strawberry and butter pecan. The rest of the avors are constantly switched out, so customers can try new avors Chandler creates every week. “I was hand-making all the inclusions that went into everything,” Chandler said. “We were literally staying up all night making ice cream for months.”
Katie and her husband, Ben, o cially opened Friendswood Scoop Shop last summer—and it has been a community hit. Meet the owners The Chandlers have lived in Friendswood for nearly eight years. Before they purchased the space, the 1920s house had been unoccupied for 30 years. Chandler said she looked forward to opening the house up so residents could also have access to its history, as the other historical museums in Friend- swood have limited visiting hours.
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901 S. Friendswood Drive, Friendswood www.friendswoodscoopshop.com
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