Monday, February 25, 2008
News A Sip of Ice Cream
Posted by Carrington Fox on Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:34 PM
Mike Duguay, owner of Mike's Ice Cream Fountain on Broadway, will soon open a second coffee-and-ice cream shop when he takes over the Sip Cafe space in Riverside Village in East Nashville. Duguay, who came to Nashville from Michigan five years ago to open the Broadway store, will take over the lease from Sip owners Kathryn Snell-Ryan and Jack Ryan in March. He plans to carry on the Sip brand, making few changes to the menu of coffees and pastries beyond adding his own homemade ice cream to the mix. He hopes to have the transformation complete by Memorial Day.
In the near term, Duguay will continue to make the ice cream in the Broadway store, but this spring he will also move the ice cream manufacturing operations to the building behind Sip in Riverside Village.
Sip Cafe is located at 1402 McGavock, 227-1035. Mike's Ice Cream Fountain is located at 208 Broadway, 742-6453.
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This makes me nervous; Sip is almost a daily stop for me on my way downtown from Inglewood every morning. I at least hope they don't change the staff, because I finally learned everyone's name.
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Does anyone know the backstory on the Sip side of this story? It's my favorite EN coffee shop by a landslide, and I like it just the way it is.
I want to assure the regulars of Sip that I plan very few changes. The only real change is to add some great homemade ice cream to the products that are already there. I admire what the current owners, Jack and Kathryn, have done, and I hope to continue the tradition they have begun. I have met with all of their employees and have offered all of their employees to continue working with me. I know that Sip has a loyal regular customer base, and I intend to work my hardest to make sure you have the same good experience and the same quality products you've had before. When you see the new guy behind the counter, that'll be me. I look forward to meeting all of you when I work shifts there along with the employees.
