Desserts and More

Restaurants can be broken down into not only different restaurant types but also food types as well. Some examples of these may be – Asian, bakeries, barbecue, coffeehouses, desserts and more, family style, Italian or pizza, Mexican, sandwiches or seafood.

This page deals specifically with the dessert category which can include a variety of things. Dessert shops have been around for centuries, but there seems to be an influx in the amount of dessert focused restaurants that are springing up around the country. Traditionally we have seen doughnut and ice cream shops but there seem to be more specialty shops opening up that focus on our sweet tooth.

Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt

Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt

Our first (and only?) love story… Most of us have had a bad first date. I remember a couple where I knew the chance of a relationship was over before knowing what I was going…

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Bruster’s Ice Cream

Bruster’s Ice Cream

In the 1950’s, just outside Pittsburg, PA,  the small town of Bridgewater had a diner called Jerry’s Curb Service where Bruce Reed worked. He probably wasn’t given a choice considering his parents owned it. It…

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Dunkin’ Donuts

Dunkin’ Donuts

When William Rosenberg opened his Open Kettle restaurant in Quincy, Massachusetts, he had no idea that having coffee and donuts on his menu would change the world. All restaurants have a few menu items that…

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Auntie Anne’s Pretzels

Auntie Anne’s Pretzels

It would be hard for the majority of us to comprehend Anne Beiler’s childhood growing up in an Amish-Mennonite family. She took the values instilled in her, along with her 8th-grade education and created a pretzel, a…

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