New Ice Cream “Buzzes” into SC

By Mike Switzer

Published August 14, 2015 at 5:25 AM EDT

About 30 years ago, our next guest's company founder started experimenting with adding alcohol to his grandma's homemade custard recipe. Since he lived in Kentucky, the alcohol of choice was bourbon, of course. However, alcohol doesn't freeze, which is why the only such products you've seen, says our next guest, are things like low-alcohol popsicles. But the Kentuckian's alcohol ice cream breakthrough came last year and the secret process is now patent pending and the company has decided to make South Carolina it's home base.

Mike Switzer interviews Jenn Randall-Collins, CEO of JB's PR%F, headquartered in Columbia.

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Mike Switzer

After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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