No longer content with being one of Tucson’s best-kept frozen-treat secrets, Frost, A Gelato Shoppe is going national.
The six-year-old, three-shop enterprise is owned by a pair of 30-year-old lifelong friends, Stephen Ochoa and Jeff Kaiserman.
Frost opened itself up to franchisees in October 2009. Partners in Gilbert, Albuquerque and Chicago all plan on opening franchised Frosts of their own this year.
The first, at Gilbert’s SanTan Village, should open in May.
“We’d been getting a lot of requests” from potential franchisees, said Kaiserman. “Two to five requests a day. People from other cities would stop in and ask if we sold franchises.” More.