05Racer wrote:Sir Sci wrote:BCPanther wrote:
Must be getting Dippin' Dots in the arena. Big day.
Hope they have the cotton candy dippin' dots. If some place has cotton candy dippin' dots my wife will always get them.
I live about fifteen miles from the Dippin' Dots factory. They have had an interesting couple of years. Most of their distribution is theaters, sporting events, etc. so the initial wave of the pandemic hit them hard. However, they also got an unexpected opportunity for new business helping with the COVID vaccines. Like the ice cream, the vaccines have to be super cooled and Dippin Dots already had the distribution technology and knowhow to help with this. It may be that some amount of their distribution capacity is still being used for that purpose. Of more recent relevance, there was an explosion at a Dippin Dots factory last July. Didn't really break out into the national press with all the news outlets still focused on the pandemic. Here's a link
https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/ott/special_ ... 8180a.html
They're pretty secretive about their manufacturing process for obvious reasons but it must be pretty dangerous because this is the second explosion they've had in the past few years. Not sure how much that set back their production. They have also been hit by the labor shortage just as much as everybody else. It's particularly bad in this area. Fast food chains are closing dining rooms or closing early. Went to get a sandwich a couple weeks ago only to be confronted by a taped on sign that said "due to lack of employees, we are now closing at 5PM". I figure we'll all be getting our food from robots sooner rather than later.
Between all of the above factors, you may be waiting a while to get your Dippin Dots fix. Sorry to be a bearer of bad news.
This is, quite frankly, devastating to my wife and all of the other amusement park and movie customers who enjoy their ice cream frozen into little BB sized balls.
