For 20 years, Jeanne Webster has dished out ice cream and barbecue sandwiches at Ice Cream Heaven & Bar-B-Que Cottage.
The little stand with the wrap-around deck along Derry Street in Swatara Township is a community gathering spot. Customers stop for ice cream cones, homemade soups and beer-battered cod as well as car washes and Christmas tree sales.
Now, the owner who admits she doesn’t know all of her regulars by name but can tell you what they order, is ready to hang it up.
Ice Cream Heaven is listed for sale for $350,000. It remains open for business.
“I’m kind of done. Actually, I was done a couple of years ago. I kept holding on and holding on, and you know what? I can’t do this anymore, Webster said.
Since opening the restaurant, she said there is more competing for her attention. She is now a grandmother and babysits her two grandchildren. In the past year her husband has suffered from two health issues.
“I can’t put the time and attention into this restaurant it needs,” Webster said.
Over the weekend, she posted a message about the sale on Ice Cream Heaven’s Facebook page.
“It is my hope the business will carry on and someone will put the same love and attention into our customers and community. Slightly more energy and attention will take it to where it needs to be," she wrote.
In 2000, Webster and her sister, Teresa Fortney, purchased D&K Ice Cream Heaven and altered the name to reflect the barbecue sandwiches on the menu. (Fortney later stepped away from the business.)
The recipe for the vinegar and pepper-based pork barbecue is the same one used at The Blue Pig, a restaurant that had operated several Harrisburg-are outposts in the 1930s through 1950s.
Ice Cream Heaven also serves a variety of sandwiches and items such as boardwalk fries, burgers, hot dogs and chicken tenders. It sells both soft-serve and hand-dipped ice cream in dozens of flavors.
Webster said she is selling it as a turn-key restaurant or for the real estate. In the Facebook post she said she envisions a garden center or used car lot but hopes it remains an ice cream shop.
“I’m hoping somebody kind of sees not so much this is a gold mine sitting here, which certainly it’s not, but that it’s a big part of the community,” Webster said.
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