Cedar Crest Ice Cream Plant & Parlor — Restaurant in Manitowoc

On August 14, 2020, I was looking forward to the yearly Cool City Classic Car Cruise and we all decided to stop at the Cedar Crest Ice Cream Shop in Manitowoc. Well, from there my experiences went in the toilet. I have always loved Cedar Crest Ice Cream, and buy it repeatedly at both the grocery stores and ice cream parlors. Unfortunately, that will be a thing of the past. Because of the virus precautions, we were told we had to wait in line in the blazing sun. They only let one family in at a time. Normally, at this point, I would just move on to something else in my day. But I really like their ice cream! So I sweated, and when we got to the door, we claimed medical exemption, no masks. The girl said she had to clear out the lobby before we could go in, for our protection (yeah, right). She then let us in, where we proceeded 6 feet to the three people behind the counter. All three had just watched her put me through the wringer once. But that wasn’t enough, the girl at the counter started to give me the mask lecture. I cut her off, saying she just say the other girl do it, and did she think the other girl was not doing her job? She said she was just double checking, so yeah, despite the fact that she knew I just went through all that, she felt the need to harass me about all over again. I definitely lost my temper then when she proceeded to start the spiel all over again. I said that an ice cream cone was not worth going through all of that. I said I was just going to leave, and as I turned away, the young man at the counter said “Good”. What happened to respect and manners? Harassment? An applauding attitude because I was leaving? I don’t think those are part of the governor’s mandates! So everybody wants to say that they have to right to set their policy, but let’s look at what that policy of poor manners cost them. I am just one person, but I bet others got a bad taste in their mouth also. So I went on a Facebook site that is putting information out there like this. So now everybody on that site has a bad idea of Cedar Crest’s reputation, but a very good impression of other companies that don’t go “Nazi” on their customers. I doubt Cedar Crest will care because their real customers are the large grocery chains. But at the cost of their reputation? And while my future ice cream purchases will total at least $1600.00, I don’t think they care. But those purchases won’t be with...

Yummmmmm!!!

That's all there is to it 😀❤️

Staff is very good at their jobs and the line was out the door during this particular visit. They handled it like champs and got everybody served as quickly as anyone could.

I tried an orange and vanilla mix (forgot the name-it may have simply been "Orange Swirl"). Popular in my group was something called "Dump Truck". It was a graham cracker flavor and that did not disappoint. I believe it was honey flavor with graham's pieces....I might have that wrong but they nailed it 😁.

If you haven't been to Cedar Crest Ice Cream Factory you really need to add it to your bucket list,...

This is quite the spot for ice cream near Red Arrow Park and Red Arrow Beach. The friendly staffed allowed my wife and I to sample several delicious ice cream flavors. My wife had single scoop the WI Campfire Smores ( Graham flavored ice cream with crushed peanut butter cups and a marshmallow swirl) in a cup. I went with the two scoops of Bubble Gum (Pieces of Bubble Gum in Pink Bubble Gum Flavored Ice Cream) waffle cone. They had picnic tables outside and tables inside for patrons to sit. It is cute parlor definitely worth you time if you need to cool off from a...