We are very happy to announce our 2019 season ice cream menu,there are some very exciting new products on offer. Ellinors ice cream update their menu as trending tastes change year on year as well as the main manufacturers introducing new products.
Ellinors also offer additional menu items from selected vans along with seasonal options like the Easter Egg range.
The hot waffle and ice cream with topping of choice is proving very popular with new and returning customers.
Ellinors ice cream spend considerable time looking for the flavours they think will become popular for the upcoming season.
2107 and 2018 Salted Caramel increased in popularity to become one of the top requested toppings, to carry this on Ellinors have introduced an addition for 2019 the Salted Caramel Crunch topping Company spokesperson Rachel Sweatman said “wait until customers taste this it’s delicious” .
The company are very happy to introduce what they believe to be the next trending tasty flavour Lotus Biscoff, this will be offered as a Lotus Biscoff crumb a perfect way to dip and roll your Fresh ice cream adding that special crunch. topped off with Ellinors very own Lotus Biscoff drizzle sauce. We asked company owner Ashley ward why in all comments she refers to our FRESH ice cream instead of just ice cream her comments were very clear “with so many shops,takeaways,and parlours offering long life packet ice cream we like to be very clear our menu only offers Fresh dairy ice cream we think customers can tell the difference in taste”
Ellinor’s ice cream vans usually look to park up in the winter after all the firework events and School Christmas visits. Does the work finish? Well no. One of the first jobs is stripping the vans bare inside of stock ready to carry out the many maintenance jobs, did you know the ice cream machine has approx forty moving parts so some need work and some need replacing. One van each year is booked in for a complete body respray which keeps the fleet looking polished. The vans are deep cleaned and the staff are looking to a few weeks well earned rest. It isn’t long before its time to start again, the vans all get booked in for a full service and ice cream machinery servicing as well. Once again the vans are given a very deep clean and time to order new utensils and items required for the season ahead.
Now work really begins in early February where Ellinor’s visit trade shows. Taste everything and speak to all the manufacturers and suppliers. Everyone ice cream related are at the shows Walls, Nestle, Treats, Stella the list goes on. Ellinor’s find out products that are being delisted and new ones coming to the UK. Sometimes we have a good idea and sometimes there are complete surprises, who could guess Walls were going to stop the famous mint feast in 2017. Sometimes hard decisions have to be made for instance the iconic Fab lolly, it would be nice to keep this for sentimental reasons and historically the oldest continuous name lolly brand but it unfortunately is so small now the company can’t justify the retail price for their customers. After this it’s careful consideration of what our customers have said to us, what was popular last season and what was not. As one of the leading ice cream companies it’s also about what’s trending and what is around the next corner public tastes and fashions are ever evolving so keeping the menus fresh and new helps the company to lead the way. Once all things are considered its time to start designing and planning the new menu for the oncoming season, company spokesperson Bonita Ellinor said “its very exciting to introduce the new menu’s to our customers and see the reaction to new products and inventions of our own, one I really think will be a hit this year is the new white chocolate and cookies Magnum”.
The booking office are very busy already by February sending out quotes for Weddings, Corporate hire days and year on year returning customer’s that like to book early to guarantee an Ellinor’s ice cream van at their event.
Its all about cleaning again top to bottom then restocking the vans, if the weathers kind by the end of February its all out and full steam ahead for the season. Watch out for an Ellinor’s ice cream van on a street or event and see what’s new for this year there are lots of yummy surprises in store for you.
