For more than 147 years, Graeter’s Ice Cream has built its success on making ice cream by hand, in 2.5-gallon French pot freezers, one batch at a time, regardless of the technological innovations adopted by competitors.
Founder Louis Charles Graeter and his wife, Regina, produced ice cream in the back of their home and sold it in the front parlor. But, when a streetcar fatally struck Louis in 1919, Regina took over the business, sustaining through the Great Depression and two world wars.