Many of the older stores are modified and expansion continues into new areas. Become a BFF and receive news about Friendly's, discounts and special offers.Friendly's introduces Free Ice Cream Day! Many of the older stores are modified and expansion continues into new areas. We can’t believe how long we’ve enjoyed this holiday favorite!Friendly is now a chain of 500 restaurants concentrated in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern US. It will add to Dean Foods already sizable ice cream business, which generated nearly $1 billion in sales last year. If we had a project, he wanted to hear about it.”Curtis and his late wife, Patricia, founded the philanthropic Curtis and Patricia Blake Foundation, which donated more than $1 million to the Curtis Blake Center at American International College to benefit students with learning disabilities.
Dean Foods will produce Friendly’s ice cream for its restaurant locations under a 10-year contract. Shop Target for Friendly's Ice Cream & Frozen Dairy Desserts you will love at great low prices. Kids everywhere laugh, sing, and tell their parents it’s time for ice cream.An affiliate of Sun Capital Partners, Inc. a leading private investment firm specializing in leveraged buyouts and investments in market-leading companies, acquires Friendly’s.During the summer, Friendly’s asks guests to add their own sound to the mix with iScream Friendly’s, an interactive program for teens and young adults to "scream" their love and passion for Friendly’s.
Prestley Blake, the co-founder of Friendly's ice cream, is donating $10 million to the Saint Francis Foundation. “He always wanted to hear about how things were going. In early 2018, Friendly's opened a new "prototype" restaurant at the Apex Center in Friendly's abruptly closed most of their locations in Co-founder Curtis Blake died on May 24, 2019 at the age of 102.On August 19, 2019, Friendly's closed its North Providence location, its last in Rhode Island.In early October 2019, the last remaining restaurant in Virginia closed. Friendly's is an ideal complement to our other heritage brands across the country and fills a manufacturing and retail ice cream void in our nationwide footprint. He was also an accomplished sailor who enjoyed sailing the coast of Maine, where he spent his summers.Even after founding the company he helped build into an iconic brand, Curtis served four years in the Army Air Forces during World War II, including time in England.He served on many boards and shared his financial experience with organizations including Rockefeller University in New York City, Mount Holyoke College, Historic Deerfield and Old Sturbridge Village.Curtis was a longtime fundraiser for and supporter of the Willie Ross School for the Deaf in Longmeadow, where the audiology clinic is named in his honor.