Corner Ice Cream Shop — Restaurant in Warren Township

Some businesses see themselves as neighbors and a true part of the community. If you want to support those kinds of values, go down the road to Cockeye’s Creamery. It might be that the ice cream here is good, but the ability to be kind and take good care of other humans is not.

I am going to spell out the details, but the gist of the story is that, in addition to wanting to purchase ice cream, I asked if I could charge my phone there while my kids at their ice cream. The young people working there looked stricken when I asked and said they had to call the owner. They then came back and told me that they were forbidden from helping me. I had literally 2% left, so I went over to Cockeye Creamery (so lucky I made it there). They barely blinked and cheerfully plugged me in, asked me about my travels and provided amazing service and ice cream. I also noticed that they are highly involved in local charitable work.

Now, if you’re asking yourself why I was not better prepared- fair. I will take a moment to lay it out. I took my teenager and toddler to Nelson’s Ledges. I have an iPhone SE and it weirdly works with only one charger, which is a USB-C, and the only way I can charge it in my car is to have it attached to the A/C outlet plug. And, while on our journey, my kid put his foot on the outlet and it pulled out. So I could not charge in my car.

Nelson’s Ledges does not have power in its bathrooms, but I thought- no problem, I have enough juice to navigate to an ice cream shop and I will treat these kids and get enough charge to navigate home.

It seems like an easy way to be a helper in the world, and heck, even relieve a fairly problematic situation for a woman with little ones. Instead, the owner’s choice left me anxiously hoping I could even manage to find a place to charge while trying to calm a sobbing 3 year old who definitely did not understand why we did not stay to get ice cream at the...

So I probably should have had lower expectations to begin with but here it goes. We get there and it was moderately busy, we waited about 10 minutes to order with one person in front of us, the girl who helped us seemed a little out of it so maybe having a rough day so okay, then we sit down and wait at least 15 minutes for food at which point I get up and look through the window and the male worker was putting our food in the boxes with bare hands. Girl was wearing gloves as she MICROWAVED hot dogs. The Mozzarella sticks were undercooked and honestly if you want grocery store freezer isle food made by people who don't wear gloves then good for you. I didn't have the appetite for ice cream and would have left before getting the food if my partner didn't want to stay and my child wasn't so hungry. Just make sure they wear gloves and have low expectations. Ice cream...

I honestly can't say enough nice things about this place. I go here almost everyday. What really makes this place, aside from them having the BEST coffee, is the amazing people that work there. I came through the other day and as I got to the window my kiddo got sick in the backseat. I was flustered and all over the place, but the ladies working were nothing but kind to me and even tried to help by handing me napkins and making sure that everything was okay. The woman who took my order went as far as giving me my coffee for free - I know that might not seem like much, but to a single mom who is constantly go go go, it's the little things that make the biggest difference!! Days later when she saw me again, she asked how my little was doing and if everything ended up being okay. That made my day! Genuinely can't recommend this...