Main Street Ice Cream Parlor — Restaurant in New Providence

The ice cream is fine.

My wife, infant daughter, and I went on a Wednesday afternoon.

We sat down and were eating our ice cream, and at 5:00, we were informed that they were closing down.

I thought not much of it, since I was aware that they were listed as closing at 5:30 on Googlemaps and I assumed she was referring to that. I stood up uncomfortably and said “at 5:30, right?” and she said “no, right now”.

About one minute later, noticing that we were not moving toward the door (since we were not halfway through our ice cream), she said “he’s closing the gate downstairs now” (the parlour is on the second floor of a souvenir shop). She then turned off the lights where we were still seated eating our ice cream, and so I got the message that we were getting kicked out. “I’m just a bit confused because Googlemaps says 5:30.” She replied “we can change our minds anytime if it’s slow”.

Now, this is a sound business principle, and we were the only ones in the ice cream parlour at the time. However, we were still seated eating the ice cream we had paid for, we had taken a load off from the stroller and our bags and had settled in comfortably to eat ice cream at the venue where we had purchased the ice cream… it felt super wrong.

I’ve never heard of an establishment rushing to push out paying customers half an hour earlier than the scheduled closing time… we truly felt like we were getting kicked out once they abruptly decided that business was too slow to remain open for the day (remember they turned off the lights on us at 5:00 while we were sitting eating our ice cream).

Suffice it to say that we will obviously not return, which surely this ice cream parlour situated above a souvenir shop in the tourist area of a beautiful tropical island won’t care about.

But, maybe some of y’all would-be patrons will read and decide to prefer an ice cream venue that would decide to allow a small, weary family of paying customers to finish their ice cream in peace before hurriedly...

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